Job Description

This role can be based anywhere around the Yorkshire area, with minimum 1 day per week at our Tadcaster site.

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for attracting, sourcing, and hiring high-quality talent across multiple regions (EMEA, APAC, US and Canada) and business functions. Operating as a strategic partner to hiring managers and senior leaders, the role plays a critical part in shaping workforce capability, ensuring exceptional candidate experience, and delivering against global growth objectives.

This is a high-impact, fast-paced role with visibility across the organisation, requiring strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and deep recruitment expertise.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

Act as a global ambassador for the employer brand in all candidate and market interactions

Develop and deliver attraction strategies for core skill areas and hard-to-fill roles

Build proactive talent pipelines through market mapping, networking, and direct sourcing

Support early careers, diversity, and inclusion recruitment initiatives globally

Drive direct sourcing strategies and reduce agency dependency where possible

Support EVP and employer branding initiatives

Stakeholder Partnership

Build trusted relationships with Executive leadership, HR, and hiring managers

Translate business strategy and workforce plans into effective recruitment delivery

Provide expert guidance on hiring strategies, market conditions, compensation benchmarking, and assessment methods

Challenge hiring decisions constructively to ensure quality and consistency

Partner with business leaders to forecast hiring demand and manage recruitment pipelines

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role briefing through to offer and handover to the HR teams for onboarding

Deliver full-cycle recruitment across corporate, technical, commercial, and leadership roles globally

Lead direct sourcing strategies using LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and headhunting

Conduct structured screening and interview processes to ensure high-quality assessment

Manage offer process in line with reward and governance frameworks

Ensure exceptional candidate experience across all touchpoints

Support onboarding and early engagement for new hires

Recruitment Operations & Governance

Ensure recruitment activity is compliant with employment legislation and GDPR across all locations

Maintain clean, accurate data within the ATS

Manage agency relationships and ensure adherence to PSL and cost frameworks

Monitor recruitment spend and deliver cost-efficient hiring solutions

Manage agency performance, fees, and service delivery

Ensure compliance with recruitment policy, employment law, and data protection

Performance & Continuous Improvement

Track key recruitment KPIs including time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and quality-of-hire

Continuously improve recruitment processes, tools, and candidate experience

Implement best-practice sourcing, assessment, and selection methodologies globally

Use data and insight to influence hiring strategy and decision-making

Contribute to global talent strategy and workforce planning activity

Outputs/Deliverables

Qualified talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles Successful hires across all role types and seniority levels globally Candidate experience feedback and satisfaction metrics Recruitment KPI dashboards and performance reporting for senior leadership Updated and accurate ATS data and candidate records Agency performance scorecards and cost analysis Compliant recruitment documentation and audit-ready records Diversity recruitment outcomes and early careers intake Process improvement recommendations and implementation plans Onboarding support documentation and new hire engagement materials

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Proven experience as a Corporate Recruiter within a global or multi-site organisation. Preferably within an Engineering or manufacturing industry.

Strong experience hiring across multiple job families including commercial, technical, and leadership roles.

Track record of partnering with senior leaders and managing complex stakeholder groups.

Strong direct sourcing and market mapping capability.

Experience managing high-volume and specialist recruitment simultaneously.

Knowledge of global employment practices and recruitment compliance.

Experience delivering recruitment in fast-paced, scaling, or transformation environments

Technical Skills and Qualifications

Essential

Strong proficiency in LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and ATS platforms.

Skilled in competency-based interviewing and assessment methodologies.

Strong knowledge of recruitment legislation, GDPR, and hiring governance.

Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.

Strong data analysis and reporting capability.

Microsoft suite experience including excel

Commercial acumen

Reports to: Global HR Director

Direct Reports: N/A

Working relationships with: Global HR teams, hiring managers SLT and ExCom

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave Company events Company pension Employee discount Flexitime Free flu jabs Free or subsidised travel Free parking Gym membership Life insurance On-site parking Private dental insurance Referral programme Sick pay Store discount Work from home
Application question(s):

Do you have experience in recruiting in manufacturing or engineering roles? Are you confident in using Microsoft suite eg excel?
Experience:

Global recruitment: 3 years (required) ATS and Job board: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:

UK Driving license (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Tadcaster LS24 9SG