We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join our People Team. You'll be the person who finds the talent that powers our next chapter - owning end-to-end recruitment across HQ and Retail, building pipelines, and acting as a true advisor to hiring managers across the business.
Responsibilities
* Lead end-to-end recruitment for HQ and Retail, delivering an efficient, high-quality hiring process from briefing through to offer management.
* Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to identify and engage high‑calibre active and passive talent across multiple channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, referrals, networking, and direct outreach.
* Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for critical and future‑facing roles, ensuring readiness for evolving business needs.
* Deliver high-quality candidate shortlists aligned to role requirements, business objectives, and market availability.
* Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on market trends, competitor activity, candidate availability, and hiring strategy including interviewing best practice, assessment approaches, and inclusive hiring principles.
* Influence and challenge stakeholders to drive effective hiring decisions, improved assessment quality, and consistency across the recruitment process.
* Drive an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience through clear communication, efficient process management, and high service standards.
* Use recruitment data and market intelligence to provide actionable insights on hiring performance, sourcing effectiveness, time‑to‑hire, and talent trends.
* Lead and deliver talent acquisition projects focused on improving recruitment effectiveness, process optimisation, candidate engagement, and hiring outcomes.
* Collaborate on employer branding and talent attraction initiatives to strengthen market visibility and support attraction of top talent across HQ and Retail functions.
* Represent the business at relevant industry events, networking opportunities, and talent forums to strengthen external talent networks and market presence.
* Ensure recruitment activity is accurately managed within the ATS (Workable) maintaining data integrity, reporting accuracy, and process consistency.
* Act as the primary point of contact for talent market insights and benchmarking within the beauty and retail landscape, supporting data‑led hiring decisions and strategic workforce planning.
* Identify, utilise and drive opportunities for AI adoption across talent acquisition processes to enhance sourcing effectiveness, market intelligence, operational efficiency, and candidate engagement.
* Support additional talent acquisition initiatives and projects as required by the People function.
Requirements
* Proven experience in end-to-end in house recruitment, ideally in a fast‑paced, multi channel environment (Retail and Ecommerce)
* Strong sourcing capability across multiple channels, with a genuine talent for finding and engaging passive candidates.
* Confident stakeholder management skills - able to advise and influence where needed.
* Data‑led mindset with the ability to translate hiring metrics into meaningful insights.
* Strong Excel capability, with confidence using spreadsheets to manage, analyse and present data accurately
* Experience using an ATS (Workable experience a bonus)
* Confidence utilising AI tools within a commercial environment to improve efficiency, insight and ways of working
* Excellent communication skills and a high bar for candidate and hiring manager experience
* Knowledge of the beauty, retail, or consumer brand landscape is a plus
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