Talent Acquisition Lead

Babcock International; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension & life assurance

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal

Professional fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

Be Kind Day

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Talent Acquisition Lead at its Bridgwater, Somerset site with hybrid working options. You will act as a trusted recruitment partner across permanent and contingent hiring, shaping sourcing strategies and influencing hiring decisions.

The role requires strong stakeholder engagement and data-driven recruitment leadership. You will manage campaigns, partner with managers and external MSP/RPO partners, and travel as needed across sites.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and embedding sourcing strategies within a complex organisational environment.
• Experience leading large-scale recruitment campaigns or project-based hiring programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience using Excel and reporting tools to analyse data and support business decisions.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies to meet current and future hiring demands.
• Partnering with hiring managers, project leaders and customers to understand workforce requirements and recruitment priorities.
• Working closely with our recruitment process outsourcing and managed service provider partners to ensure a high-quality recruitment service.
• Analysing recruitment data and workforce trends to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Driving project-based recruitment campaigns to deliver the right people with the right skills at the right time.

Skills

Sourcing strategies

Stakeholder management

Recruitment campaigns

Data analysis

Tools

Excel

Reporting tools

Job description

Job Title: Talent Acquisition Lead

Location: Bridgwater, Somerset + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74483

Shape the future workforce behind the UK's clean energy ambitions

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Talent Acquisition Lead at our Bridgwater, Somerset site.

The role

As a Talent Acquisition Lead, you'll act as a trusted recruitment partner, helping the business attract, engage and secure talented people across both permanent and contingent hiring. You'll influence hiring strategies, build strong stakeholder relationships and play a key role in delivering workforce solutions within a complex project environment.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies to meet current and future hiring demands.
• Partnering with hiring managers, project leaders and customers to understand workforce requirements and recruitment priorities.
• Working closely with our recruitment process outsourcing and managed service provider partners to ensure a high-quality recruitment service.
• Analysing recruitment data and workforce trends to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Driving project-based recruitment campaigns to deliver the right people with the right skills at the right time.

You will work 37 hours per week, with flexible and hybrid working arrangements available, alongside regular travel to our Bridgwater and Bristol sites.

Essential experience of the Talent Acquisition Lead:

• Proven experience designing and embedding sourcing strategies within a complex organisational environment.
• Experience leading large-scale recruitment campaigns or project-based hiring programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience using Excel and reporting tools to analyse data and support business decisions.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required.

Qualifications for the Talent Acquisition Lead:

• We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national and able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with your chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 11/09/2026

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