Senior Talent Acquisition Lead

National Physical Laboratory; Tewkesbury; Vor Ort; GBP 60.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead a high-performing TA function. You will shape and deliver talent strategy, partnering with senior leaders to attract niche specialist talent in a competitive market.

You’ll champion diversity, leverage data insights, and drive process improvements across attraction, assessment and hiring lifecycle, while developing the TA team and ensuring measurable value for the organisation.

Qualifikationen

• Experience leading talent acquisition teams.
• Proven ability to align TA with organisational strategy.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Aufgaben

• Lead and develop the Talent Acquisition team and manage a complex recruitment portfolio.
• Shape and deliver the organisation's talent strategy and lead hiring across key roles.
• Drive diversity, inclusion, and process improvements across the recruitment lifecycle.

Kenntnisse

Stakeholder management

Talent acquisition

Data-driven decision making

Team leadership

Recruitment strategy

Jobbeschreibung

Talent Acquisition is a critical driver of NPL's success, with a direct impact on our ability to attract the specialist talent needed to deliver our ambitious organisational goals. Our TA team is highly regarded across the business, acting as trusted partners to leaders while driving innovation, continuous improvement and best practice across the attraction, assessment and hiring lifecycle.

You will work closely with our Talent Pipelines Manager, People Team colleagues and senior stakeholders across the organisation. You will help shape and deliver NPL’s talent strategy ensuring we remain competitive in a challenging market. Combining strategic oversight with operational excellence, you'll provide leadership across the TA function, driving performance, innovation and continuous improvement.

A key focus of the role will be leading and developing the TA team to achieve exceptional results, fostering a high-performance culture centred on accountability, customer service and continuous development. Alongside managing your own complex portfolio of recruitment activity, you will act as a subject matter expert, providing trusted advice to hiring managers and senior leaders, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing best practice across the recruitment lifecycle.

You'll champion diversity and inclusion, leverage data and market insight to inform decision-making, support budgeting processes, manage and monitor metrics to ensure the function delivers measurable value to the organisation.

Note: Internally this role will be called "Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist"