Talent Acquisition Specialist

Marshall of Cambridge Holdings Ltd; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist in Cambridge. This hybrid role involves managing full-cycle recruitment, promoting excellent candidate experiences, and supporting hiring managers. The ideal candidate will have experience in high volume recruitment within technical sectors and will be passionate about enhancing diversity and inclusion within recruitment practices. Competitive benefits include flexible working arrangements and a strong pension plan.

Benefits

27 days holiday increasing with service

Pension contributions up to 9%

Healthcare cash plan

Flexible benefit program

Life assurance at 4x basic salary

Enhanced parental leave and pay

Paid volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in high volume recruitment, ideally in technical/engineering roles.
• Strong understanding of compliance in recruitment.
• Ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Support full-cycle recruitment across various roles.
• Act as a partner to hiring managers on recruitment best practices.
• Promote an engaging candidate experience across recruitment activities.
• Use recruitment analytics for workforce planning and improvement.
• Train managers on hiring skills initiatives.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment experience

Knowledge of recruitment methodologies

Stakeholder relationship building

Organizational and project management skills

Job description

Why join Marshall Land Systems in this role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Talent Acquisition specialist to join our HR team at Marshall Land Systems. Our focus is to attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent that helps us deliver world-class engineering solutions that support people in some of the most critical and dangerous situations.

As our Talent Acquisition Specialist, you'll play a key role in shaping how we bring people into our business, from volume recruitment to early careers and specialist technical opportunities. This is a great opportunity to impact how we hire, create exceptional hiring experiences for both our candidates and our stakeholders as well as looking at new an innovative ways to attract and engage talent into our transforming organisation.

This role will be based in Cambridge, hybrid working, 3 days a week onsite.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Support full-cycle recruitment activity across a range of roles, including early careers, volume, and specialist technical hires.
• Act as a trusted partner to hiring managers, advising on recruitment best practice, workforce planning, and market trends.
• Support the management and day-to-day relationship with our RPO partner, ensuring high service levels and alignment with business needs.
• Support the design and deliverer of recruitment campaigns, assessment processes, and selection methods tailored to different role levels and functions.
• Promote and ensure an engaging, inclusive, and consistent candidate experience across all recruitment activity.
• Use data and recruitment analytics to provide insight, support workforce planning, and make continuous improvements.
• Train managers on hiring skills initiatives such as "licence to recruit"
• Build strong relationships with external partners including universities, apprenticeship providers, and professional networks to strengthen the talent pipeline.
• Partner with managers to deliver early careers programmes (e.g. graduates, apprentices, interns), ensuring quality training, development, and progression.
• Oversee and coordinate internal recruitment processes, ensuring a positive employee experience and constructive feedback.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying ways to streamline recruitment processes and strengthen employer brand.
• Support initiatives that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring recruitment practices are fair, accessible, and reflective of our values.

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Proven experience in end-to-end recruitment, ideally within a high volume environment dealing with technical/engineering/production recruitment.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment methodologies, assessment design, and candidate sourcing strategies.
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships, influencing and challenging where needed.
• Knowledge of compliance in recruitment (e.g. right-to-work, visas, IR35)
• Passion for delivering excellent candidate and hiring manager experiences.
• Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple campaigns simultaneously.

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Healthcare cash plan
• Extensive flexible benefit program
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools