Head of Talent Acquisition - London, United Kingdom - Third Bridge

Description

As the Head of Talent Acquisition, you will lead the UK and US talent acquisition team with the primary objective of ensuring the successful delivery of hiring top talent across all departments from high-volume early careers roles to senior/hard-to-fill roles. You will also lead on global Talent Acquisition projects such as improving and developing our employer brand, campus strategy, process improvements and help to implement sourcing strategies.

You will report to the Head of People, Europe & US (based in Texas) as well as manage and coach a team of two Senior Talent Acquisition Managers based in the UK.

Responsibilities:

• Design and execute a playbook to source, assess and onboard top international talent for (mostly) early careers roles and some managerial level roles, utilizing a judicious mix of agencies, job boards and other external resources together with a proven process and highly effective ATS.
• Manage and coach your direct reports providing a forum for open feedback and support while continually thinking about their career development.
• Balance the need to fill roles on time with an unyielding emphasis on the hiring bar. When forced to choose, you always prioritize the hiring bar, but can still propose business-focused, data-driven solutions for how to fill the role.
• Build solid relationships with stakeholders across the whole organization and be seen as the Subject Matter Expert for all things recruitment at Third Bridge.
• Embed and develop the employer brand and its effectiveness to attract the right quality of candidates across early careers and experienced hires globally.
• Work with D&I ambassadors to understand the needs of the business to devise strategies to hire cognitively, ethnically and socially diverse team members at all levels.

• Proven experience managing and leading an international talent acquisition team in a high-growth organisation.
• You will understand the differing challenges between high-volume early careers recruitment and experienced hires recruitment while being able to create different sourcing strategies for each type of recruitment.
• You are a self-starter who must be able to demonstrate the ability to work through ambiguity and change.
• Experience recruiting for a high-bar, person-centred organisation that is known for its quality of talent is preferable.
• You will possess strong relationship-building and business-partnering skills.
• You will use data to drive hiring decision-making and strategies.
• Experience working with various systems such as Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), HR Systems (HRIS), job boards and sourcing platforms.

• Vacation: 25 days (pro rata) plus UK Bank Holidays
• Learning: personal development allowance of £750 per year
• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan, a variety of health and wellbeing events to focus on mental health, Ride to Work scheme (savings on bikes and accessories)
• Future and family: pension contributions of 4% (increases with tenure) and life insurance of 4x of your base salary
• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and 'Summer Fridays'
• Rewards: get points through our colleague-to-colleague recognition programme to spend on hotels, gift cards, donations to charity and more
• Social: weekly optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events
• ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)
• Frontline Innovation: your chance to share your ideas for improvement through Hackathons and other events

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.