Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Finance

Choices lifestyle benefits platform

MiDeals discounts

Cycle to work

Job summary

Mitie is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to deliver a proactive, consultative resourcing service across Mitie Fire & Security. You will own the full lifecycle from vacancy approval to onboarding, driving direct sourcing, headhunting, and talent pipelining to secure exceptional talent.

You will build strong relationships with senior leaders, provide market insights, influence hiring decisions, and lead capability planning.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Talent Acquisition Partner, Senior Recruiter, or Senior Talent Acquisition Partner.
• Track record of sourcing, headhunting and recruiting hard-to-find talent.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and vacancies in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interviewing, assessment and candidate engagement skills.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems, ideally PageUp.
• Excellent organisational, communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Commercial awareness with a data-driven approach to recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders across the business.
• Provide market insights, salary benchmarking, and recruitment expertise.
• Influence hiring decisions and challenge recruitment strategies to improve outcomes.
• Lead vacancy briefing and talent planning discussions to understand current and future hiring needs.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies to identify and attract exceptional candidates.
• Conduct proactive headhunting using LinkedIn Recruiter, talent maps, networking, referrals, and industry intelligence.
• Build talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
• Drive direct sourcing initiatives to reduce agency reliance and improve recruitment efficiency.
• Promote employee referrals and innovative attraction campaigns.
• Take ownership of the full recruitment lifecycle from requisition to onboarding.
• Coordinate interviews and guide stakeholders through effective selection processes.
• Present high-quality candidate shortlists and recommendations to hiring managers.

Skills

Talent Acquisition

Head hunting

Stakeholder management

Interviewing

ATS (PageUp)

Data-driven recruitment

Tools

PageUp

Job description

Role Purpose

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for delivering a proactive, consultative, and commercially focused resourcing service across Mitie Fire & Security. Acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, you will lead the full resourcing lifecycle from vacancy approval through to onboarding, whilst driving direct sourcing, headhunting, talent pipelining, and stakeholder engagement strategies to secure exceptional talent.

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Role Purpose

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for delivering a proactive, consultative, and commercially focused resourcing service across Mitie Fire & Security. Acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, you will lead the full resourcing lifecycle from vacancy approval through to onboarding, whilst driving direct sourcing, headhunting, talent pipelining, and stakeholder engagement strategies to secure exceptional talent.

Job Overview

What You'll Be Doing

Partnering with the Business

• Build strong relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders across the business.
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing market insights, salary benchmarking, and recruitment expertise.
• Influence hiring decisions and challenge recruitment strategies where appropriate to improve outcomes.
• Lead vacancy briefing and talent planning discussions to understand current and future hiring needs.

Finding the Best Talent

• Develop creative sourcing strategies to identify and attract exceptional candidates.
• Conduct proactive headhunting using LinkedIn Recruiter, talent maps, networking, referrals, and industry intelligence.
• Build talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
• Drive direct sourcing initiatives to reduce agency reliance and improve recruitment efficiency.
• Promote employee referrals and innovative attraction campaigns.

Managing End-to-End Recruitment

• Take ownership of the full recruitment lifecycle from requisition to onboarding.
• Manage vacancies through PageUp, ensuring a smooth and compliant process.
• Screen, assess and shortlist candidates against role requirements.
• Present high-quality candidate shortlists and recommendations to hiring managers.
• Coordinate interviews and guide stakeholders through effective selection processes.

Delivering An Outstanding Candidate Experience

• Keep candidates engaged throughout their recruitment journey.
• Lead offer discussions and salary negotiations.
• Support successful onboarding and ensure a seamless transition from offer acceptance to start date.
• Ensure clear communication and timely feedback at every stage.

Driving Continuous Improvement

• Analyse recruitment performance, market trends and hiring data.
• Produce meaningful recruitment insights and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve attraction strategies, hiring processes and candidate engagement.
• Support workforce planning through talent mapping and market intelligence.

What We Are Looking For

• Proven experience as a Talent Acquisition Partner, Senior Recruiter, or Senior Talent Acquisition Partner.
• A track record of successfully sourcing, headhunting and recruiting hard-to-find talent.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and vacancies in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interviewing, assessment and candidate engagement skills.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems, ideally PageUp.
• Excellent organisational, communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Commercial awareness with a data-driven approach to recruitment.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• High-quality hires delivered efficiently.
• Strong hiring manager and candidate satisfaction.
• Increased direct sourcing and reduced agency spend.
• Exceptional offer acceptance rates.
• Robust talent pipelines for future business needs.
• Accurate reporting, strong compliance, and continuous improvement.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.