Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

CHAMP Cargosystems; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

CHAMP Cargosystems is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to own the full recruitment lifecycle across multiple geographies. You will partner with business leaders to attract, assess, and secure top talent, while delivering focused sourcing strategies and building robust pipelines.

A strong emphasis on candidate experience, compliance, and data-driven decisions will shape hiring outcomes. You will collaborate with HR Operations and onboarding teams to ensure smooth transitions from

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or equivalent.
• 7+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience.
• Experience recruiting for technical and non-technical roles across geographies.
• Experience sourcing for niche, hard-to-fill positions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for assigned roles with intake, posting, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offers, and onboarding.
• Build proactive pipelines using multiple channels and market intelligence.
• Ensure professional candidate experience with timely communication and support.
• Partner with hiring managers to shape role profiles and hiring strategies.
• Coordinate handoff from offer to onboarding with HR Operations.
• Maintain compliant recruitment processes per regulations and policies.
• Maintain confidentiality and professional communication with stakeholders.
• Track recruitment metrics and pipeline health to improve outcomes.
• Leverage data to identify bottlenecks and optimize sourcing channels.
• Document best practices and drive alignment in hiring processes.
• Champion DEI practices and align with local norms and regulations.

Skills

End-to-End Recruiting

Sourcing Strategies

Stakeholder Management

Candidate Experience

GDPR Compliance

DEI Principles

Negotiation

Communication Skills

Multiregional Hiring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in HR

Job description

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will lead the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, partnering with business leaders to attract, assess, and secure top talent that supports organizational objectives. You will deliver targeted sourcing strategies, build sustainable talent pipelines, enhance candidate experience, and leverage recruitment data to drive informed hiring decisions. Through strong stakeholder partnership, operational excellence, compliance, confidentiality, and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you will help build a high-performing workforce that enables business growth and long-term success.

Reporting to: Manager, Talent Management

Location: Europe (Czech/ United Kingdom)

We embrace a flexible approach and welcome applications from talented professionals based in Czech and in the United Kingdom, subject to local employment requirements.

Employment Type: Permanent full-time

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for assigned roles, including intake discussions, job brief calibration, job posting, talent sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, candidate assessment, hiring manager alignment, offer support, and seamless onboarding handoff.
• Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines through tailored sourcing strategies, utilizing multiple channels and market intelligence to identify, engage, and attract qualified talent aligned with business needs.
• Ensure a professional, transparent, and engaging candidate experience through timely communication and consistent support throughout the hiring lifecycle.
• Partner with hiring managers to shape role profiles, assess talent market dynamics, and implement hiring strategies aligned with organizational goals and workforce needs.
• Partner with HR Operations, onboarding teams, and hiring managers to ensure a smooth handoff from accepted offer to onboarding.
• Ensure a consistent, documented, and compliant recruitment process that adheres to country-specific employment regulations, GDPR data protection requirements, and company policies throughout the hiring lifecycle.
• Maintains highest level of confidentiality and professionalism while fostering effective communication and collaboration with employees, managers, and senior leadership.
• Track and report on recruitment performance metrics and pipeline health, providing insights and recommendations to improve hiring effectiveness, efficiency, and outcomes.
• Leverage recruitment data and insights to identify process bottlenecks, optimise sourcing channel effectiveness, anticipate hiring delivery risks, and provide actionable recommendations to hiring teams and the Manager, Talent Management.
• Support continuous improvement in recruitment effectiveness by documenting best practices, refining recruitment resources, providing market intelligence, and driving alignment in hiring processes across the organization.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices while ensuring alignment with local cultural norms and regulatory requirements.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong knowledge of end-to-end recruitment and talent acquisition processes
• Strong understanding and knowledge of sourcing methodologies, talent market mapping, and candidate attraction strategies
• Knowledge of employer branding, candidate experience best practices, and recruitment marketing strategies. Strong stakeholder management and hiring manager advisory capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and hiring manager advisory capabilities.
• Excellent negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple requisitions simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of GDPR and applicable data privacy requirements related to candidate information handling.
• Ability to integrate diversity and inclusion principles, regulatory requirements, and business objectives throughout the recruitment lifecycle.

Education and Experience:

• Graduate of Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or any equivalent degree.
• 7+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including end-to-end recruitment in a global environment.
• Proven experience recruiting for both technical and non-technical roles across multiple functions and geographies.
• Experience sourcing and hiring for niche, hard-to-fill positions

The selected candidate may be subject to the provision of an up-to-date (not older than 3 months) criminal record certificate.

Security:

the successful candidate will have to comply with CHAMP Security Requirements (including but not limited to CHAMP’s IT Security Policies, especially the ISMS Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy, mandatory courses, confidentiality and data protection, use of company assets, and incident reporting).

CHAMP Cargosystems is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, ethnic background, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Please note that any personal data that you submit along with your application will be processed by CHAMP and may be processed by any of its global entities as necessary. These data will be treated in strict compliance with the applicable data protection legislation (i.e. the Law of 2 August 2002 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, as amended, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, - the GDPR -, which entered into force on 25 May 2018, as well as any other subsequent regulation).Please follow the link to the CHAMP Candidates Privacy Notice for further information.