Talent Acquisition Specialist

Oliver James Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Rockefeller Center office

Leadership coaching and development

Quarterly lunch clubs

Monthly socials

Team incentives

Job summary

Oliver James is a global recruitment firm expanding in the USA. We are seeking a Talent Acquisition Partner to lead experienced recruiter hiring across Oliver James USA, partnering with Directors and senior leaders on market strategy and talent pipelines.

This role blends agency recruitment rigor with internal TA responsibilities, including headhunting, selling career opportunities to passive candidates, and driving successful placements in a fast-moving market.

Qualifications

• Agency recruitment experience is essential.
• Ideally, you’ll already work in Talent Acquisition for a recruitment agency, hiring experienced recruiters into an agency environment.
• We’ll also consider successful 360 agency recruiters looking to move into internal TA who bring strong sales capability, market knowledge and the ability to influence passive candidates.
• You’ll need a minimum of two years’ agency recruitment experience and a strong understanding of recruiter motivations, desk performance, market opportunity, progression and earning potential.

Responsibilities

• Headhunt and engage experienced recruiters across our specialist markets.
• Build proactive talent pipelines aligned to future growth.
• Sell the Oliver James opportunity to passive candidates.
• Manage candidates through the full recruitment lifecycle.
• Conduct first-stage interviews and candidate assessments.
• Partner with senior leadership on hiring strategy and market insight.
• Assess motivation, commercial capability and agency recruitment alignment.
• Drive referral and talent attraction initiatives.
• Partner with Talent and Marketing on recruitment campaigns.
• Track pipeline activity, hiring performance and recruitment data.
• Support onboarding and post-placement aftercare.

Skills

Headhunting

Passive candidate engagement

Influencing

Commercial judgment

Resilience

Relationship building

Communication skills

Market insight

Job description

Talent Acquisition Partner – Agency Recruitment

New York City | Rockefeller Center

Oliver James is a global specialist recruitment business operating across 15 international offices, with a market-leading presence across Insurance, Asset Management and Banking.

Our US business is entering its next major phase of growth. Since 2020, we’ve increased revenue by more than 350% and grown from 35 to 160+ employees across North America. With plans to double the business again over the next two years, we’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to help us find and hire the experienced recruiters who will drive that growth.

This is a highly commercial TA role, partnering directly with senior leadership and using many of the same skills that make a great agency recruiter successful: headhunting, influence, objection handling, commercial curiosity, resilience and the ability to create opportunity with passive talent.

You’ll identify and engage high-performing recruiters, position Oliver James as a compelling career move and convert conversations into high-quality hires.

You’ll have a strong proposition to take to market: bigger markets, higher-value desks, clear progression, strong infrastructure and a business with genuine momentum. Your job is to bring that opportunity to life.

The Opportunity

Working within our established Talent team, you’ll own experienced hiring across key areas of Oliver James USA.

You’ll partner closely with Directors and senior leaders on market mapping, hiring strategy and talent pipelines, while proactively headhunting recruiters across our specialist markets.

This role suits someone who understands agency recruitment, enjoys the sales element of Talent Acquisition and is motivated by winning high-quality talent in a competitive market.

Key Responsibilities

• Headhunt and engage experienced recruiters across our specialist markets
• Build proactive talent pipelines aligned to future growth
• Sell the Oliver James opportunity to passive candidates
• Manage candidates through the full recruitment lifecycle
• Conduct first-stage interviews and candidate assessments
• Partner with senior leadership on hiring strategy and market insight
• Assess motivation, commercial capability and agency recruitment alignment
• Drive referral and talent attraction initiatives
• Partner with Talent and Marketing on recruitment campaigns
• Track pipeline activity, hiring performance and recruitment data
• Support onboarding and post-placement aftercare

What We’re Looking For

Agency recruitment experience is essential.

Ideally, you’ll already work in Talent Acquisition for a recruitment agency, hiring experienced recruiters into an agency environment.

We’ll also consider successful 360 agency recruiters looking to move into internal TA who bring strong sales capability, market knowledge and the ability to influence passive candidates.

You’ll need a minimum of two years’ agency recruitment experience and a strong understanding of recruiter motivations, desk performance, market opportunity, progression and earning potential.

We’re looking for someone who is proactive, commercially driven and relentless in finding the best talent in the market.

You’ll bring:

• 2+ years’ agency recruitment experience
• Recruitment agency TA experience or a strong 360 recruitment track record
• Excellent headhunting and passive candidate engagement skills
• Strong commercial judgement and influencing capability
• Confidence handling objections and selling career opportunities
• Resilience, pace and comfort working to hiring targets
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills
• High levels of organization and attention to detail

Why Oliver James?

You’ll join a business where Talent Acquisition is a genuine growth function, with direct access to senior leadership and clear visibility of the impact you make.

You’ll benefit from:

• Consistent hiring demand across a scaling business
• Senior leaders actively invested in growth
• A strong market reputation and established success stories
• Clear progression pathways and transparent targets
• Leadership coaching and development
• Strong internal infrastructure and operational support
• Quarterly lunch clubs, monthly socials and team incentives
• A premium Rockefeller Center office
• The ability to directly influence your earnings through successful hiring delivery

Most importantly, you’ll join a business with proven momentum, ambitious growth plans and a clear mandate to scale, where the recruiters you hire will directly shape the future of Oliver James USA.