Talent Partner

If you’ve made it this far, either the job title or Zen has caught your eye. I can’t wait to tell you more about Zen, but let’s focus on the role first. I’m looking for a new Talent Partner to join me. (Hi! I’m Sandy, People Lead at Zen 👋)

Yes, I’m looking for the classic “fast-moving, high-volume, delivery-focused recruiter” and I genuinely mean it. We’re scaling quickly, partnering closely with every member of our senior leadership team, and often hiring up to 30 roles e matters. But this role goes beyond filling roles. I’m looking for someone who brings urgency, has solid experience in volume hiring, and is excited to partner with senior leaders on more strategic, business-critical roles too.

You’ll need to love the full talent lifecycle, from early screening and references, right through to offer calls, closing cohorts, and everything in between.

This isn’t a “heads down, deliver” role. You’ll be spotting patterns, challenging assumptions, and feeding insights back into the business to influence how we hire, who we bring in, and how we continue to scale smarter over time.

• You will run and own the Talent function at Zen, utilising all the resources we have to ensure we continue to scale.
  
  Full recruitment lifecycle for our UK and South Africa roles, from job description to offer stage.
• Cohort and high volume hiring, especially for educator / school facing and internal roles that grow in waves.
• Stakeholder partnership, aligning with hiring managers and senior leadership to ensure fast, focused hiring that is constantly evolving to your market insights.
• Proactively source, network, and maintain strong candidate pools.
• Act as the key communicator for candidates, being responsive, clear, and empathetic at every stage.
• Own and actively manage our Glassdoor presence, ensuring it accurately reflects the candidate and employee experience at Zen.
• Process improvement, identifying gaps, flag inefficiencies, and suggest better ways of doing things.

• You’ve worked in fast-moving, high-volume environments, managing multiple roles simultaneously without compromising quality. Experience in agency recruitment is a plus but not essential.
• You’ve partnered with senior leaders, providing market insights, spotting hiring patterns, challenging assumptions, and influencing hiring decisions.
• You love managing the full talent lifecycle, from crafting job descriptions, sourcing, and interviewing, to offer negotiation. You take ownership of your pipeline and see every stage through.
• You have experience using tools such as Linked In Recruiter to proactively source, maintain candidate pools, and build talent pipelines for current and future needs. You know how to attract top talent and engage them in a way that reflects the company’s culture and values.
• You track recruitment metrics, analyse patterns, and provide actionable insights to improve hiring efficiency and candidate quality over time.