Talent Acquisition Specialist - 12 month FTC

National Physical Laboratory; Teddington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is hiring a Talent Acquisition Specialist who will take ownership of end-to-end recruitment across multiple business areas, partnering with stakeholders to identify, attract and secure high-calibre talent.

You will be a trusted advisor to hiring managers, using market insight and data to inform workforce planning and hiring decisions, while championing candidate experience and continuous improvement within a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive end-to-end recruitment experience in-house and/or agency environments.
• Proven track record delivering complex or hard-to-fill appointments.
• Experience managing 20+ roles concurrently.
• Leading TA improvement projects with measurable outcomes.
• Solving hiring challenges using data and market insights.
• Proven success filling niche and specialist roles in competitive markets.
• Experience leading complex offer negotiations with multiple stakeholders.
• Building pipelines of scarce, passive talent.
• Influencing senior stakeholders to improve hiring outcomes.
• Managing multiple priorities while maintaining high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of end-to-end recruitment across multiple business areas.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify, attract and secure high-calibre talent.
• Advise hiring managers on recruitment best practices and market trends.
• Develop innovative sourcing strategies to meet demand in niche areas.
• Lead continuous improvement of recruitment processes and candidate experience.
• Support workforce planning through data and market insights.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment

Stakeholder management

Market insights

Data-driven decision making

Candidate experience

Talent pipelining

Negotiation skills

Prioritisation under pressure

Job description

About the Role

At NPL, weknow that great people drive great outcomes. You’ll be working closely with therest of our Talent team, People team colleagues and business stakeholders, tohelp shape how we attract, engage and hire top talent, ensuring we stay aheadof the market and continue building the skills needed for our futuresuccess.

This newly created role reflects our commitment to building best-in-classhiring practices and ensuring we remain competitive in a dynamic talent marketthrough both operational excellence and strategic talent acquisition.

Through our vital research, the National Physical Laboratory is helping supportscientific and commercial innovations, international trade, environmentalprotection and health and wellbeing. It’s why our people mean everything to us,as they’re the ones behind our greatest achievements.

What you'll be doing…

• Take ownershipof some of the organisation's most complex and business-critical hiringchallenges.
• Deliver exceptional talent solutions in highlycompetitive and candidate-short markets.
• Develop innovative sourcing strategies to uncovertalent where traditional approaches fall short.
• Build credibility with senior stakeholders,influencing workforce decisions through data and market insight.
• Naviagte competing priorities, changing businessdemands and tight hiring timelines with confidence.
• Lead challenging offer negotiations to securesought-after talent against strong market competition.
• Create and execute long-term talent attractionand pipelining strategies for niche skill sets.
• Drive continuous improvement, challengingexisting practices and identifying opportunities for greater impact.
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers,providing expert guidance on recruitment best practice and markettrends.
• Play a key role in shaping the organisation's ability to attract, engage and retain critical talent.

About You

As a TalentAcquisition Specialist, you will take ownership of the end-to-end recruitmentprocess across a range of business areas, partnering with stakeholders toidentify, attract and secure high-calibre talent. You'll be a trusted advisorto hiring managers, using market insight, data and innovative sourcingstrategies to support workforce planning and hiring decisions.

This is anexciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about candidate experience,employer branding and continuous improvement, and who thrives in acollaborative, fast-paced environment.

We activelyrecruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specificdepartments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can bemore tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS securityclearance.

Essentialexperience required:

• Extensiveend-to-end recruitment experience, with a background of in-house as wellas agency environments
• A strong track record of delivering complex orhard-to-fill appointments
• Experience of managing a large portfolio of rolesat any given time (20+)
• Experience leading talent acquisition improvementprojects, identifying the causes of recruitment challenges and deliveringmeasurable improvements to hiring outcomes and candidate experience
• Proven ability to solve complex hiring challengesusing data, market insights and recruitment expertise.
• Demonstrated success delivering specialist talentinto highly competitive and hard-to-fill markets.
• Experience leading complex offer negotiationsinvolving multiple stakeholders, competing opportunities and commercialconstraints.
• Strong track record of building and engagingpipelines of scarce, passive and difficult-to-reach talent.
• Experience influencing and constructivelychallenging senior stakeholders to improve hiring outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple competing prioritieswhile maintaining high-quality recruitment delivery.
• Experience driving improvements acrossrecruitment processes, technology and candidate experience.
• Proven judgement in identifying hiring risks andimplementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated success developing innovativeattraction strategies for niche and specialist skill sets.
• Experienceleading end-to-end recruitment campaigns requiring resilience, commercialjudgement and strategic thinking.

Why join us?

At NPL, you'll be part of an organisation whose work has real-world impact.You'll join a supportive and collaborative team where your ideas and expertisewill help shape the future of talent acquisition. In return, you'll have opportunitiesto develop your career, influence recruitment strategy and play a key role inattracting the people who enable NPL to deliver world-leading science andinnovation.

About Us

The National Physical Laboratory(NPL) is a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edgemeasurement science, engineering and technology to underpin prosperity andquality of life in the UK.

NPL and DSIT have strong commitments to diversity and equality of opportunity,and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of their background,gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or age, providing they meet therequired criteria. Applications from women, disabled and black, Asian andminority ethnic candidates in particular are encouraged. All disabledcandidates (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who satisfy the minimumcriteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview under the DisabilityConfident Scheme.

At NPL, we believe our success is a resultof the diversity and talent of our people.We strive to nurture andrespect individuals to ensure everyone feels valued by treating everyone on thebasis of their own individual merits and abilities regardless of their own orperceived identity, as part of our commitment to diversity & inclusion, weholdmemberships and accreditations to ensure we’re creating anenvironment where all our colleagues feel supported and welcome, please seeour Diversity & Inclusion page.

We are committed to the health andwell-being of our employees. Flexible working and social activities areembedded in our culture to create a positive work-life balance, along with abroad range of benefits. Our values are at the heart of what we do, andthey shape the way we interact, develop our people and celebrate success.

To ensure everyone has an equal chance,we’re always willing to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.If you would like to discuss, please contact us.