Talent Acquisition Lead

Join Talent; Derry/Londonderry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Talent is seeking an experienced recruitment leader for an onsite role in Derry or Letterkenny. The initial 3 months are a fixed-term contract with good scope to extend, focused on sourcing top talent and enhancing TA processes while upholding client and candidate experiences.

The role requires strong leadership, global hiring experience, and ability to manage multiple stakeholders across client and internal teams, delivering rapid hiring scale.

Qualifications

• Proven success in a lead or senior recruitment role.
• Experience in startup/scale-up environments with multinational hiring is a plus.
• Global hiring experience is critical.

Responsibilities

• Source and headhunt candidates to match client needs.
• Post adverts using client brand guidelines and manage applications.
• Screen candidates and present shortlisted candidates.
• Arrange interviews and coordinate candidate journey end-to-end.
• Maintain relationships with client stakeholders and Join Talent teams.

Skills

Lead recruitment

Senior recruitment

Global hiring

Client stakeholder management

Negotiation

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Can-do attitude

Tools

ATS

Client/project systems

Job description

Derry or Letterkenny onsite - Initial 3 months FTC (good scope to extend) - Manufacturing Hiring

What will I be doing?

Working to deliver amazing results for both finding & hiring amazing new talent and to help improve and enhance TA processes and capability along the way.

Your technical expertise, agility, professionalism, dedication, ‘can do’ attitude, and willingness to pull out the stops to deliver, will be what makes you successful in this role.

Typical activities all hang off your main goals of sourcing fantastic candidates whilst delivering a rock star client experience and equally awesome candidate experience – enhancing the brand of both our client and Join Talent.

Typical activities include:

Creating & gaining buy in from the client for the plan for the approach to deliver the project – includes EBM, sourcing, channels, assessment & onboarding elements

Building strong relationships with a range of client stakeholders including Hiring Managers, Leadership, HR & TA as applicable – positioning yourself and Join talent as trusted partners who get stuff done but also understand and protect the brand, culture and values of our client

Creating and posting job adverts using client brand guidelines and managing all applications in a professional manner

Directly sourcing and headhunting for suitable candidates that match the requirements of the role

Screening applicants to present a shortlist to the relevant people

Creating a shortlist & arranging interviews (directly or vis support resources off-site as applicable)

Managing the candidate journey in a professional and candidate-centric manner

Acting as a vital link between on and off site resources aligned to the project to ensure everyone is set up for success

Day to day support and management of resources aligned to deliver for your project.

Finding new candidates and promoting roles to them – looking under every digital rock available to actively hunt out talent others just can’t find

Role Requirements

Utilising and maintaining the ATS and any other client/project system

Writing updates and analysing relevant business and market data

Being aware of market trends and competitors for candidates

Complying with our company standards on values and ethics in all aspects of delivery and client interaction

Maintaining a positive attitude that inspires co-workers and clients to grow the business

Skills & Experience

• Proven success in a lead or senior recruitment role
• Start-up/scale-up environment recruiting on a multi-national basis would be a distinct advantage
• Demonstrable and relevant global hiring experience is critical.
• Strong expertise at selling value proposition, negotiating and closing great candidates
• A strong track record of closing requisitions with quick turnaround
• Proven leadership capability
• Charisma – in this role your charm and winning personality will be a huge factor in your success
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Problem-solving capability
• Delivery project management experience
• Self-motivated approach
• Teamwork – little room in a growing company for ‘lone wolves’ and in this role ability to work closely with all kinds of client stakeholders, team members and peers across the company will be key

A bit about us…

Join Talent is a great place to be. We are EMEA's fastest growing Recruitment insourcing business (boutique RPO or embedded talent solution - we are not precious about the term!). Whatever you call it, it is in-house at pace!

Our ethos is scarily simple - we hire amazingly talented recruiters and recruitment leaders, support them really well, and provide them with a fantastic set of tools to create hiring success.

Companies often talk about how they put people first, we mean it to the bottom of our souls - and if you want to use your TA prowess to check that out on how well we do at putting our team first and creating a great culture.

We provide growing businesses with the technology, manpower and expertise required to enable them to hire, onboard and manage the talent they need to meet their growth plans. Our model provides flexibility and pace for rapid deployment of hiring scale-up solutions.

Established in early 2019 Join Talent is in many respects the ‘new kid on the block’ in the market, but we support some of the world's most exciting brands, and have over 200 team members across 19 countries today .... and still growing!

We work in an industry agnostic manner, and this is reflected in the diversity of our clients who include companies as diverse as Amazon, OnBuy, Mambu, Zego, Booking.com, Celonis and Frontiers.