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, HRBPs, 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
* Recruitment forecasts and pipeline reports aligned to workforce plans
* Market intelligence reports on talent availability, compensation trends, and competitor activity
* 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
* Employer brand content and candidate engagement campaigns
* Diversity recruitment outcomes and early careers intake
* Process improvement recommendations and implementation plans
* Onboarding support documentation and new hire engagement materials
Core Values & Competencies
Mpac Core Values
1) Integrity
2) Drive
3) Collaboration
4) Expertise
5) Innovation
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
Proven experience as a Corporate Recruiter within a global or multi-site organisation.
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
Reporting Line
Reports to: Global HR Director
Direct Reports (if applicable): N/A
Working relationships with: Global HR teams, hiring managers SLT and ExCom