Talent Acquisition Lead

Metrea; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Subsided gym membership

Electric Car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrificed pension scheme

Free lunch on office days

Enhanced Parental Leave

30 days annual PTO plus bank holidays

Job summary

Metrea is seeking an experienced in-house recruiter to partner with its European Support Groups and lead a small team. You will shape talent strategies, build pipelines, and manage a broad portfolio of roles from senior to specialist hiring.

You will drive candidate sourcing globally with empathy, ensuring high-quality experiences across time zones and strengthening Metrea's employer brand in Europe. Hybrid work in London is expected.

Qualifications

• In-house recruitment experience in scaling or fast-changing organisations.
• Proven leadership, with ability to coach and develop others.
• Strong consultative and influencer skills across senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment across Metrea's European Support Groups and manage a mix of roles.
• Develop and grow your team, providing clarity on expectations and growth.
• Partner with hiring managers to shape talent strategies and educate on recruiting best practices.
• Build pipelines and nurture candidate relationships with empathy and transparency.
• Consult with stakeholders to ensure best hiring decisions using market insights.
• Own recruiting frameworks and tooling to influence talent strategy and capability.

Skills

In-house recruitment

People leadership

Stakeholder management

European talent markets

Recruitment strategy

Talent pipeline development

ATS experience

Tools

Greenhouse

Job description

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Metrea Management is our global shared service providing support for the Capabilities in areas such as People, Finance, Legal, Strategy, Safety, Security and Information Technology.

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Whenever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect. Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.

Position Summary

At Metrea, we seek out the most complex national security challenges and proactively develop elegant solutions. Those solutions start with our people, and their ability to deliver mission-critical effects around the world.

Our Talent Acquisition team is focused on delivering equally compelling and strategic recruiting solutions to our teammates and business leaders through deep recruiting expertise, a consultative approach, and analytical rigour. In this role, you will partner closely with leaders across Metrea's European Support Groups to deliver high-quality hiring that enables the business to scale. You'll manage a broad portfolio of roles ranging from senior, high-touch searches to operational and specialist hiring, whilst leading a small team.

We're actively investing in our TA function and you'll own meaningful pieces of that build alongside your peers across Support. You will be successful if you are an experienced in-house recruiter who runs searches with sound judgement, knows what exceptional recruiting looks like, and can confidently influence senior stakeholders with clear recommendations and thoughtful challenge. Equally important: you're someone who wants to contribute to how we recruit at Metrea, lead and develop talent, and take ownership of projects that shape the way we work.

Role And Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment across Metrea's European Support Groups, managing a mix of operational, specialist, and leadership searches
• Lead and develop your team member, creating the conditions for good work, providing clarity on expectations, and supporting their growth and capability development
• Partner with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to shape talent strategies that align with business priorities, managing up effectively and educating on recruiting best practices
• Tenaciously source and build pipelines, whilst engaging and nurturing relationships with candidates using empathy and transparency, ensuring they're aligned with Metrea's mission and values
• Guide and consult with stakeholders using market knowledge and insights to ensure the best hiring decisions
• Own meaningful build projects within the European Support Groups function: developing recruiting frameworks and tooling, building team capability, and using data to influence hiring decisions and talent strategy.
• Manage multi-step hiring processes across European teams and time zones, ensuring a smooth and high-quality candidate experience
• Champion Metrea's employer brand across Europe to attract mission-aligned talent, bringing clarity and energy to who we are and why people should join us
• Collaborate across the TA function to develop and refine our recruiting practices, bringing your perspective and learning from peers working across other parts of the business

Skills And Experience

• In-house recruitment experience in a scaling or fast-changing organisation, managing a broad range of roles at varying levels
• Proven people leadership experience. You've managed people before and know how to build trust, set clear expectations, and create space for others to grow
• Track record of knowing what excellence looks like in recruiting and being willing to hold the line on quality and approach
• Proven ability to consult, partner, and influence at multiple levels—managing up to leadership, laterally with peers, and as a leader to your team
• Strong familiarity with European talent markets, key talent pools, and industry trends across the region
• Strong judgement in shaping recruitment approaches and improving processes to deliver high-quality hires
• Track record of building and maintaining diverse, high-quality candidate pipelines at scale
• Experience managing multi-step, complex hiring processes across geographically dispersed teams and time zones
• Ability to balance breadth and depth, adapting to varying role types and business needs
• Experience with Greenhouse or other applicant tracking systems
• Familiarity with enterprise support functions including People, Finance, Operations, Legal, and Strategy
• Ownership mentality. You see problems and want to solve them, and you're energised by having clear ownership of meaningful work

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub
• Electric Car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrificed pension scheme
• Free lunch on office days
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• 30 days annual PTO plus b/h

Right to Work

The employee will have the legal right to work in theUKand will be able to producerightto work documentation.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Metrea Management Limited (MAM)is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to6:00p.m. Hours and work shifts may changein accordance withdepartment and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees maybe requiredto work over40hours per week with approval from the department manager.

Work Location

You will normally be required to work at/ from the Metrea Management Limited offices on The Third Floor, The Aircraft Factory, 100 Cambridge Grove, London, England, W6 0LE

Work Environment

This job operates in an office setting. Hybrid; minimum of 3 days/ week onsite

Travel

10%

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.