Overview
Oritain is the global leader in product verification, with locations in Auckland, Dunedin, London, Singapore and Washington D.C. Our mission is to protect people and the planet by ensuring transparency and integrity in global supply chains. We harness science and services to verify the genuine origin of materials, building an interconnected community of verified buyers and suppliers.
The Senior Talent Acquisition Manager will lead the recruitment team responsible for finding, attracting, and securing the best talent to deliver this mission at scale.
The Opportunity: Leadership, Delivery & Impact
The Senior Talent Acquisition Manager is a high-impact, player-manager role responsible for delivery of our recruitment strategy—leading our Talent Acquisition function, while remaining hands-on with hiring across key business areas.
Working closely with senior leaders across Oritain, you’ll ensure we continue to attract exceptional talent across all business areas—while personally owning end-to-end recruitment for our commercial and go-to-market teams, as well as high-impact/business-critical roles.
This role suits someone who thrives in a hybrid of leadership and delivery: someone who can guide and develop a team, build trusted relationships across the business, and still roll up their sleeves to deliver high-quality hiring outcomes in a fast-growing global environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and coach a small Talent Acquisition team, ensuring consistent, high-quality, and inclusive hiring across the business. As a hands-on leader, you will manage your own portfolio of priority roles with a focus on commercial and GTM recruitment.
* Partner closely with senior stakeholders to understand workforce needs, capability gaps, and future growth plans, offering insight into market conditions, salary trends, and talent availability.
* Champion a strong candidate experience from end to end, ensuring everyone engaging with Oritain gets a genuine sense of our mission, culture, and values.
* Build and maintain proactive sourcing strategies that strengthen talent pipelines and widen access to diverse talent communities.
* Maintain consistent, well-structured interview and assessment processes, coaching hiring managers on best practice and reinforcing high standards.
* Use data, dashboards, and analytics to monitor pipeline health, time-to-hire, diversity metrics, and hiring demand, sharing insights to plan ahead and improve our approach.
* Refine operational recruitment processes—optimising ATS workflows, interview frameworks, and communication touchpoints to support efficiency and quality.
* Collaborate with the wider People & Culture team to ensure a seamless, joined-up colleague experience from attraction through onboarding, while upholding compliance across right-to-work, governance, and data protection standards.
Skills & Experience
* Proven experience in a senior-level talent acquisition role balancing leadership with hands-on delivery across commercial, GTM, or customer-facing roles.
* Strong grasp of full-cycle recruitment, global sourcing, and talent market dynamics; able to juggle multiple priorities while maintaining a high bar for candidate experience and process quality.
* Proactive in building diverse talent pipelines using inclusive sourcing strategies and equitable assessment practices to broaden access to underrepresented groups.
* Clear communication; ability to build trust quickly and represent Oritain with professionalism and warmth. Experience with ATS platforms, recruitment analytics, and data-driven insights to refine processes and inform decisions.
* Initiative, curiosity, and a genuine passion for finding people who will help Oritain scale its mission.
Company Benefits
* Paid Leave – 35 days (inclusive of public holidays)
* Birthday Off
* Volunteering Leave Allowance
* Enhanced Parental Leave
* Life Insurance
* Healthcare Cash Plan
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Pension
* Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
* Breakfast, Snacks, Friday lunch & Barista Coffee Machine in the office
* Learning Portal with over 100,000 assets available to support professional development
* Hybrid working set-up (Minimum 3+ days, Farringdon- London)
We believe great teams are built from different perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to bring your whole self to the process. If there’s anything we can do to support you, including any reasonable adjustments at any stage of hiring, please let the team know.
Oritain is a global leader in forensic origin verification. Using cutting edge science, advanced technology, and specialized services, we independently verify where products and raw materials come from – protecting brand integrity, supporting compliance, and strengthening supply chain trust and transparency. Our method is highly resistant to tampering, court-admissible, and trusted by suppliers and manufacturers, brands and retailers, consumers, and regulators.
Driven by purpose, we are committed to advancing the scientific techniques and systems needed to identify the origin of the world’s most critical commodities – enabling more ethical, resilient, and accountable supply chains.
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