Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Overview

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.

As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner you will act as a key partner to business leaders, driving the recruitment strategy and ensuring the acquisition of top talent that aligns with our organizational goals for your region. This role is responsible for recruitment across primarily the RWR business with a focus on UK and US (in particular, London, Birmingham, New York and Austin).

• Manage a portfolio of requisitions, managing the full end to end recruitment lifecycle.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including HR, business leaders, and external partners.
• Proactively network and engage in the local market to identify and build talent pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with hiring managers to understand their talent requirements and preferences and align hiring demand to their workforce plans.
• Provide credible and consultative advice and candidate market intel to the client during the entire recruitment lifecycle.
• Support the business with the development of job descriptions and create effective sourcing strategies. Review CVs and applications to assess candidate skills, experience, and suitability for specific roles. Conduct initial phone screenings to evaluate candidates  skills, experience.
• Develop and conduct candidate assessments, interviews, and facilitate the selection process, providing advice and guidance to the business leaders as required.
• Work collaboratively with the TA sourcing specialists to identify key pipeline roles and develop engagement strategies to keep talent communities warm.
• Support hiring managers with interview processes where required.
• Liaise with hiring managers and HR to ensure offer process and onboarding processes are smooth and best in class.
• Support induction of new starters with keep warm and training on referral processes to new starters.
• Lead on local community engagement or careers fair events and PR initiatives in conjunction with the business and local marketing teams.
• Promote diversity and inclusion in hiring practices, ensuring a diverse pool of candidates for all positions. Utilise external and internal data insights to provide market intelligences, trends and analysis to support the development of hiring strategies for the business.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process, identifying opportunities to drive improvements where necessary to enhance the process.
• Stay updated with market trends, industry news, and talent demands.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date candidate information in the applicant tracking system or recruitment database. Ensure compliance with data protection and privacy regulations.

• Proven experience in talent acquisition managing the full end to end lifecycle or front office consultant/recruitment role – previous agency experience is essential, experience in the Rec2rec market highly desirable.
• Collaboration and Relationship Building:
  The ability to collaborate and build relationships with senior leaderships, hiring managers, cross-functional teams, HR, leadership, and external partners.
• Extensive proficiency with proactive sourcing and talent community development
• Ability to think commercially and strategically, developing solutions to complex talent acquisition challenges.
• Digital literacy – proficient in the utilisation of technology to drive efficiencies, continuous improvement and increase the impact of TA across the business.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and work under pressure.
• Proficient in using applicant tracking systems and other recruitment tools.
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