Talent Acquisition Team Leader

Role purpose

This role combines hands-on recruitment with day-to-day leadership of a team of Corporate Services and Technology Talent Acquisition Managers. Approximately half of the role holder's time will be spent personally recruiting. The other half is dedicated to leading the team: driving executional excellence, building team capability and capacity, managing senior stakeholder relationships across the business, and feeding real-time market insights back into the business. The key purpose is to get things done, raising the bar on delivery, and making the team sharper through coaching, accountability, and first-hand market knowledge.

Key responsibilities

1. Hands-On Technology Recruitment

• Carry own requisition load for IT and technology roles — spanning areas such as software engineering, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and architecture — executing the full recruitment cycle from sourcing through to offer and onboarding.
• Source, engage, and assess technology candidates using direct approaches, referrals, specialist job boards, GitHub, LinkedIn, and professional networks.
• Maintain high-quality pipeline activity and personal hiring metrics at the same standard expected of team members.

2. Team Leadership & Executional Excellence

• Lead, coach, and hold accountable a team of Corporate Services and Technology TA Managers, ensuring consistent delivery against hiring targets.
• Run daily/weekly operational cadences: pipeline reviews, requisition prioritisation, blocker removal, and activity tracking.
• Set clear expectations for individual and team output, monitor performance closely, and address underperformance quickly and constructively.

3. Team Capacity Building

• Identify skill gaps across the team and deliver targeted, practical coaching on sourcing techniques, candidate engagement, objection handling, and stakeholder management.
• Build team resilience and cross-coverage so that workload spikes, absences, or attrition do not derail delivery.
• Own capacity planning: balance requisition allocation across the team based on complexity, volume, and individual strengths.

4. Market Reality & Insights

• Leverage first-hand recruiting activity to provide the team and business stakeholders with current, practical market intelligence on technology talent availability, compensation expectations, and competitor hiring patterns.
• Share market feedback in real time with hiring managers, including realistic timelines, salary benchmarking for technology roles, and candidate expectations around remote working, tech stack, and career progression — to ensure alignment and faster decision-making.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years’ experience in Talent Acquisition, with proven people leadership exposure.
• In-house corporate Talent Acquisition or executive search experience, with a clear track record of personally filling roles.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience hiring talent in Corporate Services and/or Technology space.
• Proven ability to build and maintain credible relationships with senior stakeholders, including constructively challenging unrealistic briefs and influencing hiring decisions with market evidence.
• Track record of running operational cadences (pipeline reviews, requisition prioritisation, performance tracking) and driving consistent delivery against hiring targets across a team.
• Experience coaching and developing recruiters, identifying skill gaps, providing practical, hands-on coaching, and addressing underperformance directly and constructively.
• Strong process discipline: confident user of ATS platforms with high standards around data hygiene, interview rigour, candidate communication, and offer management.
• Hands-on, delivery-focused mindset: comfortable carrying personal requisitions while leading a team, and willing to step in on difficult searches when needed.
• Fluent English.

What we offer

• Competitive salary that reflects your experience and the value you bring.
• Flexibility that fits your life: you can work from home, from our office, or a mix of both. You decide what works best.
• Flexible benefits package: choose the options that suit your life, not a one-size-fits-all bundle.
• A genuinely good place to work with an informal, collaborative culture where ideas are heard and bureaucracy stays out of your way.
• Continuous learning, education programs, and the support to deepen your expertise in a fast-moving industry.
• Connection beyond your desk through events that bring our teams together to network and celebrate.
• Global exposure: work side by side with talented colleagues from all over the world, across a business serving clients in 100+ countries.