About this role
I am working with my ambitious high growth professional service client who are headquartered in London but have a truly global reach who are looking to recruit a Director of Talent Acquisition & Workforce planning. You will play a key integral part of shaping and delivering on the growth of the business and its headcount to support this delivery plus help them adapt to the future workforce.
Working closely with the Chief people officer your duties will include
- Create the direction for talent acquisition across lateral partners, experienced hires and early careers teams aligning recruitment activity and priorities with the firm’s growth strategy.
- Grow sustainable and diverse pipelines for priority skills and roles, creating stronger access to talent for both current and future business needs in a more proactive way
- Strengthen the companies employer brand, employee value proposition and attraction approach, using market insight and targeted activity to reach relevant and diverse talent.
- Work with firm leadership and practice groups to understand strategic priorities, identify relevant markets and talent, develop relationships with prospective lateral partners and support critical hires that contribute to growth.
- Develop an inclusive and effective selection, assessment and hiring processes, with a consistent focus on candidate and partner experience, quality of hire and efficient decision-making.
- Shape a flexible approach spanning direct hiring, lateral partner recruitment, contingent labour, outsourcing and alternative resource models.
- Translate business growth strategy and predicted demand into workforce, capability and hiring plans with both immediate priorities with longer-term requirements.
- Use labour-market data, competitor intelligence, recruitment analytics and workforce insight to identify opportunities and risks and provide recommendations to stakeholders
- Lead the TA team and set clear priorities and expectations and budget
Essential experience and capabilities
- Significant senior-level experience leading an end-to-end talent acquisition function within a matrix & commercially focused organisation.
- The ability to translate business strategy into practical hiring requirements,
- Experience developing workforce and resourcing strategies that support growth, productivity and organisational resilience.
- Leadership experience across a broad talent acquisition remit
- Experience developing sustainable and diverse talent pipelines, alongside employer brand, employee value proposition and attraction strategies.
- The ability to use recruitment technology, workforce data, labour-market information and recruitment analytics to identify risks, inform decisions and provide clear recommendations.
- Strong commercial judgement
- Credibility and influencing skills to work effectively with partners, senior business leaders and colleagues across HR and the wider organisation.
- Experience leading teams, setting direction and priorities, and maintaining momentum when balancing multiple or changing demands.
- Strong governance and supplier-management capability, together with sound judgement and discretion when handling sensitive workforce and organisational information.
- An understanding of how permanent talent, flexible resources and AI-enabled solutions can contribute to future workforce and resourcing models.
- Experience in a legal, professional services, partnership, matrix or similarly complex organisation.