Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

CityFibre; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Private medical insurance

Health cash plans

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre network, is looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist. You’ll lead recruitment for complex, leadership and critical roles, shaping hiring strategies with business partners and senior stakeholders to secure future capability.

You’ll build long-term talent pipelines, map the market, and turn insights into clear recommendations that strengthen our sourcing and hiring approach across CityFibre.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in shaping hiring strategies for specialist and leadership roles.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Experience building long-term talent pipelines for future capability needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment across complex, specialist, leadership and business-critical roles.
• Create hiring strategies aligned with priorities and future needs.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to shape demand, role design and talent decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Market mapping

Talent intelligence

Talent pipeline development

Coaching others

Inclusive hiring

Tools

ATS systems

Job description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in the office at least once per week.

As the UK’s largest independent full fibre network and wholesale platform of choice, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Our network is greener, more reliable and designed for the future. The products we run over it lead the way on speed, value and service - helping businesses to innovate, communities to thrive, and people to live more connected digital lives.

At CityFibre, you’ll be part of something bigger, helping to build a better-connected Britain, together.

Joining us as a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

You’ll take the lead on some of our most complex and business-critical hiring, shaping strategies that help our business secure the specialist, leadership and future capability we need to succeed. Working as a trusted senior partner, you’ll influence workforce decisions, build long-term talent pipelines and help shape how we attract and hire great talent across CityFibre.

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a performance related bonus.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Leading recruitment across complex, specialist, leadership and business critical roles
• Creating hiring strategies aligned with current priorities and future capability needs
• Partnering with senior and executive stakeholders to challenge demand and shape role design and talent decisions
• Building pipelines for hard-to-fill capabilities through talent mapping, targeted engagement and proactive market activity
• Turning market intelligence, competitor insight and hiring data into clear recommendations that inform talent and workforce decisions
• Sharing your expertise across the Talent Acquisition team to strengthen our approach to sourcing, assessment and hiring
• Contributing to wider talent priorities, from workforce planning and internal mobility to inclusive hiring and employer brand

What you’ll bring to the role

You’ll be an experienced Talent Acquisition professional who can move comfortably between long-term talent strategy and hands-on delivery. You’ll bring the credibility and commercial judgement to influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively and lead complex hiring in competitive talent markets.

You’ll also have:

• A strong track record of shaping hiring strategies and delivering complex, specialist, leadership or hard-to-fill roles
• Experience influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to achieve strong commercial and hiring outcomes
• Experience building long-term talent pipelines around future capability needs
• Strong market mapping and talent intelligence skills, using insight and data to inform decisions
• Sound assessment judgement and a commitment to inclusive, fair and consistent hiring
• Experience coaching others and contributing to high-impact hiring campaigns or critical capability builds

Life at CityFibre

Everyone deserves to feel heard, valued and truly included. Working alongside our Employee Communities, we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel a genuine sense of belonging and pride in what they do. That’s why we’re proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, endorsed by WORK180, a Disability Confident Leader, a Care Leaver Friendly Employer, and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.

We’ll support you to thrive inside and outside of work, with opportunities to grow your career and a flexible benefits package that adapts to your life – including generous annual leave (with an extra day off on your birthday), private medical insurance, health cash plans and family‑friendly policies.

Find out more about our culture, communities and benefits on our careers site .

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [e-mail]. We want to help!