As our Talent Acquisition Specialist, you'll play a key role in shaping how we bring people into our business, from volume recruitment to early careers and specialist technical opportunities. This is a great opportunity to impact how we hire, create exceptional hiring experiences for both our candidates and our stakeholders as well as looking at new an innovative ways to attract and engage talent into our transforming organisation. This role will be based in Cambridge, hybrid working, 3 days a week onsite. Your responsibilities will include:
Responsibilities
* Support full-cycle recruitment activity across a range of roles, including early careers, volume, and specialist technical hires.
* Act as a trusted partner to hiring managers, advising on recruitment best practice, workforce planning, and market trends.
* Support the management and day-to-day relationship with our RPO partner, ensuring high service levels and alignment with business needs.
* Support the design and deliverer of recruitment campaigns, assessment processes, and selection methods tailored to different role levels and functions.
* Promote and ensure an engaging, inclusive, and consistent candidate experience across all recruitment activity.
* Use data and recruitment analytics to provide insight, support workforce planning, and make continuous improvements.
* Train managers on hiring skills initiatives such as "licence to recruit"
* Build strong relationships with external partners including universities, apprenticeship providers, and professional networks to strengthen the talent pipeline.
* Partner with managers to deliver early careers programmes (e.g. graduates, apprentices, interns), ensuring quality training, development, and progression.
* Oversee and coordinate internal recruitment processes, ensuring a positive employee experience and constructive feedback.
* Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying ways to streamline recruitment processes and strengthen employer brand.
* Support initiatives that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring recruitment practices are fair, accessible, and reflective of our values.
* Proven experience in end-to-end recruitment, ideally within a high volume environment dealing with technical/engineering/production recruitment.
* Strong knowledge of recruitment methodologies, assessment design, and candidate sourcing strategies.
* Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships, influencing and challenging where needed.
* Knowledge of compliance in recruitment (e.g. right-to-work, visas, IR35)
* Passion for delivering excellent candidate and hiring manager experiences.
* Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple campaigns simultaneously.
Benefits
* 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
* Hybrid working opportunities
* Pension contributions up to 9%
* Healthcare cash plan
* Extensive flexible benefit program
* Life assurance at 4x basic salary
* Enhanced parental leave and pay
* Paid volunteering leave
* Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools
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