Talent Acquisition Partner
Location: Glasgow, Stockport or Crawley (Hybrid working – 60% of time based on site)
Contract: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Closing date for applications: Friday 21st February 2025
Are you passionate about connecting talent with exciting career opportunities, offering an excellent candidate experience? Do you thrive in a data and performance driven environment, delivering effective hiring strategies and solutions for customers? If so, we want to hear from you!
The role:
We are looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Partner to join our global community of professionals dedicated to attracting, assessing and hiring top talent for Thales UK. We are a diverse and cutting-edge technology company, employing over 7,000 people in the UK and 80,000 worldwide, delivering services and solutions to our key customers across the world in key markets Defence, Aerospace, Cyber Security, and Space.
As Talent Acquisition Partner, you will be responsible for end to end internal and external hiring processes, working as part of an international team delivering across all job disciplines and skill sets within Thales UK.
You will play a key role in attracting and hiring top talent; collaborating closely with hiring managers, develop recruitment strategies and ensure a great and effective candidate experience. The team play an instrumental role to both the UK business but also our wider Global Talent Acquisition community, leading the way on key initiatives and future innovation. We work in a performance and data driven environment, using Power BI data analytics, to understand and track performance against KPIs. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in talent acquisition, attraction tools and strategies, system optimisation, data and marketing.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
Partnering with hiring managers to understand resourcing needs and develop effective recruitment strategies
Manage and be accountable for the full recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, screening, interviewing and onboarding candidates
Full immersion in the Candidate Relationship Management tool, maximising the functionality to generate candidates and reduce time in process
Utilise various sourcing techniques such as the CRM database, Linkedin, employee referrals and job boards
Build and maintain a talent pipeline for critical, core roles and future hiring needs
Conduct initial candidate screening for shortlist
Coordinate interview processes, provide feedback and ensure a positive candidate experience
Effective partnership with hiring managers, using data and market intelligence to influence and negotiate on hiring decisions
Be accountable for performance, in check on recruitment metrics to improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness
Skills, experience & behaviours:
Recruitment expertise – knowledge and experience of full-cycle recruitment and sourcing techniques. It would be advantageous if you have experience in recruiting Engineering skillsets within Defence, Aerospace or Cyber security.
Strong sourcing skills, including capability using ATS/CRM platforms and Linkedin Recruiter
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with candidates and hiring managers
Accountable for performance, leveraging recruitment metrics to optimising processes and hiring efficiencies
Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities and requirements across a diverse stakeholder group
Problem solver and adaptable; able to quickly adjust to shifting business priorities
Forward thinking, able to hold discussions to plan and prepare for the future.
This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.
To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.
For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.
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