Talent Acquisition Specialist - Technology & Engineering (FTC)

PA Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

PA Consulting in London is seeking a Digital & Data recruitment specialist on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will design sourcing strategies, manage stakeholder briefs, and enhance PA's employer brand through innovative campaigns.

The role emphasizes direct hires, LinkedIn sourcing, and a data-driven approach to recruitment, with hybrid working and collaboration with the Digital & Data team.

Qualifications

• Direct recruitment experience within Technology and/or Engineering.
• Proven experience with selection and assessment tools/methods.
• Diligent and motivated, target driven, and a self-starter.
• Confident managing relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to engage and influence.
• Resilient and energetic; capable of navigating a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Excellent partnering and teamwork to solve problems collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Own recruitment delivery with stakeholders to map talent needs and craft delivery strategy.
• Design innovative sourcing across online, offline, and social channels to build employer brand.
• Write adverts and communications highlighting PA's USP and consulting lifestyle.
• Act as SME to engage and align internal stakeholders with recruitment processes.
• Be data driven; use recruitment metrics to improve performance and credibility.
• Deliver market insights and maintain industry trend awareness.
• Champion candidate experience to leave a positive impression of PA.

Skills

Tech recruiting

Stakeholder management

Sourcing strategies

Candidate experience

Communication

Data-driven recruiting

Advert writing

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS platforms

Job description

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

• This role is a 12month Fixed Term Contract.
• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week.

You will be joining the Digital & Data recruitment team based in London, primarily responsible for recruiting into Digital and Design Engineering capabilities.

You will be accountable for owning and delivering on our key initiatives including increasing direct hires and brand awareness in our markets by designing innovative attraction campaigns, LinkedIn direct sourcing and being an advocate for our employer brand both internally and externally.

You will have a range of tools at your fingertips to support, including LinkedIn Recruiter and an array of capability specific platforms. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert, you will be familiar with the technology and/or Engineering market/s and you will be experienced in designing sourcing strategies and come with a range of techniques and strong experience recruiting technology roles.

Some of the roles we typically recruit for include: Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Architect, Data Engineer, Java Engineer, Cloud Architect, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Cyber Transformation.

An excellent communicator you will be confident in building positive relationships with your stakeholders, taking thorough briefs which, you are able to share with candidates. You will be responsible for managing your candidates ensuring they are kept engaged and informed throughout their experience.

• Work with your stakeholders to build a birds eye view of talent needs and work in partnership with the recruitment team and your hiring managers to develop a delivery strategy.
• Design innovative sourcing strategies across online, offline and social channels to build the PA Consulting employer brand.
• Have a flair for writing adverts and communications that highlight the key USP’s of working at PA and the consulting lifestyle.
• Act as a subject matter expert to key internal stakeholders to engage and influence consistent and effective recruitment processes.
• Be data driven in your methods, with a firm understanding of how your recruitment metrics can be used to improve performance and lend you credibility with your stakeholders.
• Deliver market insight and intelligence by keeping up with industry trends.
• Be a champion of candidate experience, so that even unsuccessful candidates leave the process with a positive image of PA Consulting.

We are looking for someone who is experienced recruiting into the Technology and/or Engineering sectors with great communication and influencing skills. Ideally you will have:

• Direct recruitment experience within Technology and/or Engineering either from agency or in-house.
• Proven experienced in recruitment, selection and assessment tools/methods.
• You will come with a diligent and motivated attitude. You will be target driven and a real self-starter.
• Confident at managing relationships with diverse and challenging stakeholders.
• Strong written and oral communication skills – ability to engage, influence and challenge business stakeholders.
• High energy and personally resilient with the ability to manage competing demands in a complex, matrixed environment. You should have the ability to lead yourself through ambiguity and change, often in a fast-paced environment.
• Great partnering and teaming skills – ability to support others in a collegiate working environment and build internal networks to solve problems.

This opportunity would suit an experienced recruiter who is looking for a role that will allow them to engage with senior levels of the business and to have the influence that comes with that. If you have the resilience to handle a fast-paced environment where you are at the coal-face of sourcing the talent who will go on to deliver high-impact projects, then this role may be for you.

Life at PA

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations – Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us at: [e-mail]