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The Opportunity
Lead Recruitment for a Fast-Growing UK Business
At Stantec, our UK business has grown rapidly through both organic success and smart acquisitions. With over 4,000 talented professionals and ambitious plans ahead, Talent Acquisition is central to our continued momentum.
The Opportunity
Lead Recruitment for a Fast-Growing UK Business
At Stantec, our UK business has grown rapidly through both organic success and smart acquisitions. With over 4,000 talented professionals and ambitious plans ahead, Talent Acquisition is central to our continued momentum.
We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Manager to lead recruitment across key business lines—driving hiring strategy, leading a high-performing team, and helping us shape the future.
Your Impact
Based in Birmingham, Reading, or Bristol, you’ll lead a team of experienced TA specialists and oversee recruitment in some of our most critical areas. You’ll shape how we attract top talent, guide headcount planning, and stay close to the action with a hands-on requisition load.
What You’ll Do
* Lead, support, and develop a high-performing TA team
* Drive recruitment strategies aligned with business goals
* Partner with senior stakeholders on headcount planning
* Oversee workload, team KPIs, and hiring performance
* Champion an exceptional candidate experience
* Introduce innovative direct sourcing strategies
* Improve processes and track key recruitment metrics
* Ensure talent pipelines are strong and future-ready
Why Join Us?
This is a standout opportunity to take on a visible leadership role in a collaborative and forward-thinking TA team. You’ll influence hiring at a strategic level and play a key part in building the teams shaping the UK’s future infrastructure.
We offer hybrid working (3 days in-office), a supportive, inclusive culture, and plenty of meaningful, rewarding challenges.
What You Bring
* A proven track record in leading successful recruitment teams
* Strong stakeholder management and commercial insight
* A strategic mindset backed by strong execution
* Data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement focus
* Experience in technical or engineering recruitment (ideal)
* Passion for people, hiring, and delivering impact
Ready to lead recruitment at one of the UK’s fastest-growing engineering and infrastructure firms?
We’d love to hear from you.
About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.
Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
Seniority level
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Mid-Senior level
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Human Resources
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