Talent Acquisition Partner

MARCH; Daresbury; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

MARCH is seeking a Talent Acquisition professional to manage end-to-end recruitment across multiple divisions. You will build strong relationships with hiring managers, translate requirements into actionable plans, and own delivery from sourcing through onboarding.

The role supports engineers, with nuclear industry exposure considered an advantage. You will work in a hybrid setup, travelling nationally as required, and play a key role in developing talent pipelines and innovative sourcing

Qualifications

• Proven experience in recruitment across multiple hires and roles.
• Hiring engineers is essential; nuclear industries experience is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage volume, multi-discipline workload across divisions/functions.
• Qualify resource requirements and translate into recruitment plans.
• Drive end-to-end recruitment with clear goals for time to hire and shortlist quality.
• Advise hiring managers using market and candidate insight.
• Develop compelling pitches to engage active and passive candidates.

Skills

Recruitment experience

End-to-end recruitment

Stakeholder management

Sourcing strategies

AI in recruitment

Talent pipeline development

Multi-role recruitment

Networking on social platforms

Tools

ATS systems

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

To achieve our ambitious growth plans we need to recruit the very best and at pace. As part of the MARCH Talent Acquisition Team, you will ensure that we attract, hire and onboard Talent that matches and delivers on our Group objectives, now and in the longer-term.

The successful candidate will have a track record recruiting multiple roles across varied customers, demonstrate the ability to build strong relationships and translate a clear understanding of the business, and its requirements, into actionable recruitment plans which you’ll own the end-to-end delivery of.

This role is hybrid, ideally working from our Northwest offices with national travel as required.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage a volume, multi-discipline workload spanning various divisions/functions.
• Qualify resource requirements with hiring managers and convert them into tailored recruitment plans that deliver at pace.
• Drive end-to-end recruitment against clear goals for time to hire, shortlist quality and direct sourcing, backed by proactive communication, commercial awareness and delivery commitment.
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior stakeholders, use market and candidate insight to inform and agree best approach for hiring and best practice ways of working.
• Understand MARCH’s capability and market position to develop a compelling pitch, engaging active and passive candidates, using your knowledge to ensure an excellent CV to hire ratio.
• Ensure approval and commercial processes are adhered to, supporting hiring managers as needed.
• Continually challenge how we recruit, bring new ideas, channels and sourcing approaches that work around an in-demand candidate market, reduce reliance on agency spend and promote MARCH as an employer of choice.
• Identify the right attraction route for each role such as: job boards, careers site, social and professional networks, finding ways round geographical and skills-scarcity challenges.
• Use recruitment data to report progress accurately, inform decisions and look for improvement.
• Support onboarding requirements to ensure a smooth process and positive candidate experience.
• Manage agency use and liaise with approved recruitment partners (where required), ensuring they have all the relevant information to be successful in the hiring process.
• Travel to national locations to support recruitment activities and site engagement.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in recruitment, managing multiple hires and roles at various levels, ideally through a combination of agency and in-house.
• A track record in hiring engineers is essential. Mechanical and electrical, control, automation or relevant roles in nuclear industries is an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of sourcing strategies, recruitment technologies and AI and an interest in their ongoing development.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate continuous learning in recruitment and personally, bringing external ideas and innovation to improve and shape our ways of working.
• Demonstrable experience of creating and developing talent pipelines.
• Ability to network via social media and other professional platforms and events.
• Passionate about recruitment, striving to provide industry best practice and find the best talent.

About Us

We are MARCH®. The leading provider of critical engineering services. Supporting the industries we all rely on to improve their infrastructure, process, and digital environments. We work together with our customers to maintain business continuity, optimise output, and drive new standards in productivity, reliability, and sustainability. We help deliver operational resilience, increased performance, and better environmental outcomes, across the board.

Why MARCH?

Progress is People.

MARCH has ambitious plans and central to our future growth is attracting, developing and retaining the very best talent. Whether your role is onsite or office-based, engineering or support, we offer opportunities for all our people to develop their careers and maximise their potential.

MARCH is committed to building teams that reflect a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe diverse thinking strengthens engineering, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, just let the team know.