Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Emerging Talent

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global communications holding company is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to focus on the recruitment and onboarding of emerging talent roles. You will manage a team of Recruiters and ensure positive experiences for candidates throughout the recruitment process. The ideal candidate will have experience in high-volume entry-level recruitment, strong organizational skills, and a passion for supporting diverse talent. Responsibilities include overseeing the recruitment cycle, CRM management, and stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Experience in hiring high volumes of entry-level talent in large organizations.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in overseeing end-to-end recruitment processes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and guide the full-cycle recruitment process for all entry-level roles.
• Line manage Recruiters responsible for 360 recruitment.
• Ensure all recruitment processes are efficient, rigorous, consistent, and aligned with DEI principles.

Skills

Passion for developing and supporting emerging talent

Strong understanding of recruitment best practices

Exceptional organizational abilities

Strong communication skills

Experience line managing Recruiters

Tools

ATS platforms

CRM platforms

Job description

Company description

OVERVIEW Publicis Groupe is one of the world’s largest communications holding companies, present in over 110 countries and employing about 100,000 professionals.. The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation.

HELPING OUR CLIENTS UNLOCK GROWTH IN THE PLATFORM WORLD Our clients compete in the platform world, a horizontal marketplace between creators and consumers, between speakers and listeners, between buyers and sellers. To thrive in the platform world, companies must continue to innovate their products and business models. Four imperatives (1. Real Identity, 2. Dynamic, Diverse and Disruptive Creativity 3., Smart Media and 4. Direct Relationships) via our suite of world-class agencies, are necessary for modern brands to win in the platform world. At Publicis Groupe, we’ve invested in capabilities across these four imperatives our clients need to unlock growth. As the only one who can architect, build and orchestrate end to end solutions, not only do we have a proven record of building bespoke models for clients and leading expertise across all major industry categories, we are able to offer our talents more opportunities to grow and benefit from a richer learning experience. We call this Power of One. Powered by a 100,000-strong network via Marcel, our AI-based platform, we are also able to provide our clients and talents instant access to resource, knowledge for any need, any time, in any market.

THE SPIRIT OF VIVA LA DIFFERENCE Viva La Difference is deeply rooted in everything we do. It has always been in our DNA. From the birth of Publicis, 94 years ago, when Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, our founder, invented French advertising. Viva La Difference expresses how we value and respect each individual and recognize what makes us distinctive. This is the charge that inspires our teams to celebrate the differences in identity, background, culture, and experience of all of us. It is how we behave with each other and our clients, and it is deeply rooted throughout our work, to elevate and bring to life our differences throughout the platform world.

Overview

Job Role

As Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Emerging Talent, your focus will be on the recruitment, selection, and onboarding of routine annual hiring for emerging talent roles. You will not lead programme design or outreach activities but will provide critical co-delivery support to the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner responsible for those areas. You will line manage a team of Recruiters who deliver full-cycle (360) recruitment for all entry-level positions, ensuring rigorous, efficient, and consistent processes. You will act as the escalation point for recruiters and hiring managers, ensuring swift resolution of recruitment challenges, and will be responsible for ensuring all candidates have a positive experience and are effectively onboarded before being handed over to hiring teams and Talent. You will work closely with Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Emerging Talent Programmes to ensure talent is effectively pipelined from programmes to open roles and you will also play a key role in evolving selection practices. In addition, you will lead the CRM strategy and drive team engagement to ensure all events and outreach activities are tracked, managed, and result in effective conversions into talent pipelines. This includes overseeing the integration of candidate and event data into CRM workflows, providing training and guidance to Recruiters on CRM tools and processes.

Responsibilities

Recruitment Leadership & Process Excellence

• Oversee and guide the full-cycle recruitment process for all entry-level roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and hiring
• Line manage Recruiters responsible for 360 recruitment, providing coaching, support, and escalation for complex issues
• Play a key role in evolving selection practices, including the ongoing refinement of screening and assessment centre processes, to ensure robust, fair, and effective evaluation of emerging talent.
• Ensure all recruitment processes are efficient, rigorous, consistent, and aligned with DEI principles, promoting a positive candidate experience. Act as the escalation point for Recruiters and hiring managers, ensuring swift and effective resolution of recruitment challenges
• Develop and implement strategies to ensure candidates are onboarded effectively before handover to hiring teams and Talent
• Collaborate closely with other Senior Talent Acquisition Partners to ensure seamless talent pipelining from programmes to open positions

CRM Strategy & Team Engagement for Events and Outreach

• Lead the development and execution of CRM strategy to support emerging talent recruitment, ensuring all candidate and event data is accurately captured and leveraged for pipeline conversion.
• Drive team engagement with CRM tools and processes, providing training, guidance, and clear accountabilities for post-event follow-up and candidate management.
• Collaborate with team to ensure all outreach and event activities are tracked in the CRM, enabling robust reporting and analysis of conversion rates from events into hiring pipelines.
• Oversee the integration of feedback and data from events, outreach, and candidate journeys into CRM workflows, continuously improving processes to maximize pipeline effectiveness.
• Ensure the team maintains accurate candidate records, manages tagging and segmentation, and utilizes CRM to fuel their hiring pipelines.

Candidate Experience & Onboarding

• Ensure all candidates receive a positive, inclusive, and engaging recruitment and onboarding experience
• Oversee onboarding processes for all entry-level hires, ensuring readiness for handover to hiring teams and Talent
• Gather and act on feedback from candidates and hiring managers to continuously improve the recruitment and onboarding experience

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with hiring managers, recruiters, and other Talent Acquisition colleagues across department
• Support the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner leading programme and outreach activity, in the delivery and facilitation of events and sessions

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Passion for developing, and supporting emerging talent and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace
• Proven experience in hiring high volumes of entry-level talent in a large complex organisation
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile organisation
• Experience line managing Recruiters in Talent Acquisition teams
• Experience in overseeing end to end recruitment processes
• Familiarity with employer branding and digital outreach strategies.
• Strong understanding of recruitment best practices, tools, and systems (e.g., ATS and CRM platforms).
• Extensive stakeholder management skills, with experience working across business functions and with external partners and universities as we all emerging talent audiences
• Exceptional organizational abilities, with strong attention to detail.
• Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience of working in Media, Advertising or tech industries (Preferred)

Additional information

At Publicis Groupe we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We have fantastic benefits on offer to all our employees, full details of which are shared when you join. This includes the classics like Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical, as well as Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. Please check out the Publicis Career Page Careers | Publicis Groupe which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).