Talent Acquisition Lead
Department: People (HR)
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Trimble Offices, Morley
Compensation: £42,000 - £52,000 / year
Description
About the team:
At Vintage Cash Cow and Arcavindi, our People Team is passionate about creating an exceptional employee experience, from first interaction to long-term growth. Within the team, our Talent Acquisition function is dedicated to finding, engaging, and hiring people who share our purpose: creating a world where everything has value and nothing is wasted.
We partner across Operations, Logistics, Tech, and Commercial teams to ensure every hire strengthens our culture and fuels our mission: to build the world’s largest trading platform for pre-loved items, driven by people and data.
We don’t just hire for skills. We hire people who add to our culture — bringing curiosity, ownership, and fresh thinking to help us scale sustainably.
About the role:
As a Talent Acquisition Lead / Manager, you own hiring performance for your market.
You are accountable for delivery outcomes, stakeholder confidence, sourcing effectiveness, and process excellence across your region (UK or EU).
This is a leadership role with hands‑on credibility. While you won’t carry the same volume as a TA Partner, you remain close enough to delivery to coach, unblock, and elevate standards.
You’ll lead and develop TA Partners and Resourcing Partners, ensuring structured hiring, strong pipelines, and a consistent, values‑led candidate experience.
You are the bridge between global TA strategy and market execution.
Getting Started...
* Build a deep understanding of your market’s workforce plan and hiring priorities.
* Establish trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and hiring managers.
* Review current pipeline health, time-to-hire, and performance metrics.
* Align your team on sourcing focus, SLAs, and quality standards.
Establishing Your Impact…
* Take accountability for market‑level hiring performance and delivery outcomes.
* Coach TA Partners and Resourcing Partners to improve consistency and efficiency.
* Drive clarity in intake sessions, role scoping, and success profiling.
* Strengthen proactive pipelining across recurring and critical roles.
* Ensure structured, inclusive hiring practices are embedded across your region.
Driving Excellence…
* Own market hiring forecasts and workforce planning alignment.
* Lead sourcing strategy for your region, ensuring strong channel performance and diverse talent pools.
* Monitor funnel health, conversion rates, and time-to-hire metrics.
* Identify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements.
* Activate EVP and attraction initiatives within your market.
* Support senior or critical hiring projects where required.
* Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within TA.
Key Goals & Objectives:
* Deliver hiring performance in line with workforce plan and agreed SLAs.
* Maintain ≤30-day average time-to-hire across supported functions.
* Maintain 90%+ hiring manager satisfaction within your market.
* Improve funnel conversion and pipeline strength quarter-on-quarter.
* Reduce agency reliance through effective sourcing strategy.
* Ensure consistent ATS discipline and data accuracy across your team.
* Embed inclusive hiring practices across all roles.
Key Responsibilities
* Own market-level recruitment performance and reporting.
* Lead and develop TA Partners and Resourcing Partners.
* Facilitate effective intake and workforce planning conversations.
* Oversee structured interview processes and quality control.
* Review pipeline data and take action on conversion gaps.
* Drive sourcing focus across priority and hard-to-fill roles.
* Partner with Head of TA on forecasting and strategic workforce planning.
* Represent TA in senior stakeholder discussions.
* Support onboarding session delivery where required.
* Champion continuous improvement and operational discipline across TA.
Essential Skills & Experience:
* 5+ years’ recruitment experience (in‑house preferred).
* Experience leading or mentoring recruiters in a fast‑paced environment.
* Strong stakeholder management at senior level.
* Proven success delivering hiring performance across multiple functions.
* Strong sourcing understanding and pipeline strategy capability.
* Comfortable analysing recruitment data and performance metrics.
* Experience working across multiple markets is advantageous.
* Confident, structured, and commercially aware.
* Curious, people-focused, and purpose-driven.
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