Senior Talent Acquisition Strategist | Lead Complex Hiring

CityFibre; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Flexible benefits package

Generous annual leave

Job summary

CityFibre is recruiting for a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead recruitment across complex, leadership and business-critical roles. You will shape hiring strategies, partner with senior stakeholders, and build long-term talent pipelines to support future capability needs and workforce planning.

You will influence demand, map markets, and turn insights into actionable talent decisions while contributing to inclusive hiring and employer branding initiatives across CityFibre.

Qualifications

• Strong track record of shaping hiring strategies and delivering complex, leadership or hard-to-fill roles.
• Experience influencing 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment across complex, specialist, leadership and business-critical roles.
• Create hiring strategies aligned with current priorities and future capability needs.
• Partner with senior and executive stakeholders to challenge demand and shape role design and talent decisions.
• Build pipelines for hard-to-fill capabilities through talent mapping and proactive engagement.
• Turn market intelligence and hiring data into clear recommendations for talent decisions.
• Share expertise across the Talent Acquisition team to strengthen sourcing, assessment and hiring.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Stakeholder engagement

Market mapping

Hiring strategy

Data-driven decisions

Coaching & mentoring

Job description

CityFibre is recruiting for a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead recruitment across complex, leadership and business-critical roles. You will shape hiring strategies, partner with senior stakeholders, and build long-term talent pipelines to support future capability needs and workforce planning.

You will influence demand, map markets, and turn insights into actionable talent decisions while contributing to inclusive hiring and employer branding initiatives across CityFibre.