Talent Acquisition Manager

Build the hiring engine that takes Raw Selection to £10m.

This is not a “keep the inbox tidy” Talent Acquisition role. It’s a pipeline-building, standards-setting, volume-driving seat with one job: bring in top 10% graduates (and a small number of experienced hires) that will materially move the business.

Raw Selection is an executive search firm partnering with Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies to secure C-Suite and senior leadership talent across Europe and North America.

We’re in our next growth phase. The first milestone is £10m revenue. To get there, we need a proactive, commercially-minded talent professional who can build a predictable hiring machine, sourcing, qualifying, and closing high-calibre people who thrive in a high-performance culture.

• Build the hiring engine to £10m: predictable monthly hiring numbers, not “ad hoc” recruiting
• Graduate hiring machine: campus strategy, societies, events, partnerships, referral engine, assessment days
• Direct sourcing:
  Linked In/headhunting for top performers (and a small number of experienced hires)
• High standards screening: scorecards, structured interviews, calibration, no “maybe” hires
• Employer brand + ads: write adverts, run campaigns, improve conversion rates across each stage
• Process and documentation: interview training for managers, templates, candidate comms, consistent candidate experience
• Stakeholder management: works directly with leadership to forecast headcount and prioritise roles
• Onboarding quality control: ensure new hires hit early ramp metrics, feed lessons back into hiring

#1 Raw Selection is fast-paced and fast-growing

We are building to £10M as the first milestone. That requires pace, ownership, and intensity.

#2 Raw Selection is obsessed with best-in-class

We are building the standard for how executive search should be run. If it’s average, it’s not us.

#3 Raw Selection is people-development obsessed

We invest in training, coaching, and leadership development because people are the business. The standard is the product.

#4 Raw Selection holds people accountable to their goals

We don’t talk about ambition, we ope rationalise it. Clear targets, clear feedback, clear outcomes.

• Marketing knowledge
• Evidence of building or scaling funnel based campaigns
• Big ambitions + long term mindset
• High resilience
• Highest standards for work ethic
• Demonstration of investing in yourself

Location: Leeds city centre, office-based

Compensation: Working part-time in the office in Leeds City Centre

* The exact working days and times are open to negotiation

Want to join the top 10% and take Raw Selection to £10M?

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For more on what it is like to work at Raw Selection.

See our You Tube channel and the documented journey to £10

Million

Do not apply if any of these are true:

• You want a “job”
• This is a performance role. Targets exist. Standards matter.
• You avoid phones and awkward conversations.
• You’ll be calling people daily. If that scares you, this isn’t for you.
• Feedback makes you defensive instead of better
• We are a feedback culture. Radical Candour. Direct. Specific. Actionable.
• We use metrics to identify the constraint that will create the biggest ROI if fixed.