Senior Talent Partner - Engineering - Ballymena

Bond Global Solutions Ltd; Ballymena; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Bond, a global embedded talent consultancy, is seeking a Talent Partner for the Ballymena office. This on-site role (4 days per week at the client’s office) focuses on attracting and delivering top talent, mentoring peers, and shaping end-to-end recruitment processes alongside partner organisations.

You will lead stakeholder engagement, headhunting for niche roles, and maintain rigorous data to inform decisions, while collaborating with hiring managers as one team.

Qualifications

• Outstanding stakeholder engagement skills.
• Outstanding headhunting/delivery capability.
• Experience in high-volume Manufacturing and Engineering recruitment (not software).
• Solutions focused mindset and drive to fix problems.
• Adaptable to change.
• Strategic mindset.
• A positive outlook and energy.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing attraction and delivery strategies.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders and candidates.
• No formal management responsibility but expected to play an active role in mentoring and guiding others.
• Advising on recruitment best practices and discussing appropriate assessment processes.
• Supporting the implementation of our talent solution, helping design and set up end-to-end recruitment processes with the partner while headhunting for niche roles.
• Partner with the businesses' hiring managers to work as one team.
• Conducting thorough recruiter screens and managing interview de-briefings.
• Maintain accurate data to use to influence stakeholders.
• Delivering weekly and monthly data and progress reports.
• Involvement in weekly meetings with project teams to discuss challenges and successes
• Proactively design solutions or bring new ideas to overcome challenges
• Knowledge sharing and training (onboarding, structured training, lunch & learns)
• Develop an understanding of market conditions, always learning and keeping an eye on the latest trends/markets.

Skills

Outstanding stakeholder engagement

Outstanding headhunting / delivery

Manufacturing & Engineering recruiting

Solutions focused mindset

Adaptable to change

Strategic mindset

Positive energy

Job description

Our Mission

Our Mission is to change the way teams scale forever and for the better. Empowering visionaries, to leave their print on the planet.

About Bond

Founded in 2020, Bond is a global embedded talent consultancy that scales high-growth businesses and builds world-class teams. We do this through a flexible subscription model, embedding TA consultants directly into in-house teams. As a true consultancy, we solve some of the toughest talent acquisition challenges out there — across a diverse portfolio of scale-ups, SMEs, and some of the world's most well-known enterprises.

People are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that if you hire great people and treat them well, the rest is easy. At our core, we're a group of talent acquisition professionals united by Bond's mission, vision, and values.

With teams across EMEA and the US, we're looking for great people who care deeply about their work and want to build with ambitious businesses shaping the future.

We're on the lookout for talented people to join our amazing team in Ballymena.

This role is based on-site 4 days per week at our client's office.

Our Talent Partners embed into super cool companies like Snyk, Williams F1 and Graphcore! We design recruitment processes fit for rapid growth businesses, while headhunting some pretty niche roles! We don’t have KPI’s, targets or BD requirements at Bond, it’s all about the outcomes. Data underpins all of our processes, and we've built a world class bespoke Dataverse so that we can make informed decisions always.

Our people are the most important part of Bond. The real secret is to hire and retain the very best talent professionals in the world! If we do that the rest is easy. We're looking for people that have the ability to see 2-5 years in the future and help us deliver cutting edge solutions. We're experiencing rapid growth and it's going to be an exciting journey over the next few years

Responsibilities Include:

• Developing and implementing attraction and delivery strategies.

• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders and candidates.

• No formal management responsibility but expected to play an active role in mentoring and guiding others.

• Advising on recruitment best practices and discussing appropriate assessment processes.

• Supporting the implementation of our talent solution, helping design and set up end-to-end recruitment processes with the partner while headhunting for niche roles.

• Partner with the businesses' hiring managers to work as one team.

• Conducting thorough recruiter screens and managing interview de-briefings.

• Maintain accurate data to use to influence stakeholders.

• Delivering weekly and monthly data and progress reports.

• Involvement in weekly meetings with project teams to discuss challenges and successes

• Proactively design solutions or bring new ideas to overcome challenges

• Knowledge sharing and training (onboarding, structured training, lunch & learns)

• Develop an understanding of market conditions, always learning and keeping an eye on the latest trends/markets.

Skills Required:

• Outstanding stakeholder engagement skills.

• Outstanding headhunting/delivery capability.

• Previous inhouse, RPO, or agency recruitment experience in high-volume Manufacturing and Engineering roles (not software)

• Solutions focused mindset and drive to fix problems

• Adaptable to change.

• Strategic mindset.

• A positive outlook and energy.

Our Company Values.

Challenge: “We are at our best being kept just beyond our comfort zone.”

Collaborate: “The power of many is better than the power of one.”

Innovate: “Always be looking 2-5 years in the future.”

We’re upfront about where we use AI, where we don’t, and where you’re welcome to use it too.

Where we use AI

• AI Agents for sourcing: Weve deployed a number of AI agents to do the manual lift to source and reach out to incredible talent, however once you reply to a message this is where our Talent partners take over.

• Consented note-taking: A notetaker joins interviews so the panel can look you in the eye instead of typing. You’ll see it in the call — ask us to turn it off anytime.

• Debrief summaries: AI drafts a first-pass summary for the hiring team. Humans read it critically and overwrite it before any decision.

• Research and preparation: We use AI to prepare properly for you — your background, your questions, your time respected.

Where you can use AI

• Prep & research: Use Claude, ChatGPT, whatever helps — draft answers, pressure-test stories, research us. It’s how we work too.

• The exercise: Should you be asked to do a short exercise, use every tool you’d use on the job. This is a window into how we consult with clients every day — and AI is part of how we work.

• Better questions for us: Use AI to generate questions for our founders. The best questions are the hard ones — bring them.