Senior Talent Specialist

Senior Talent Specialist - Gi Pro

Location: Leicester or Nottingham (hybrid) - combination of remote working and regular in person days at regional hubs and client sites as required

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Salary: Competitive, plus bonus and comprehensive benefits

About the role:

We’re hiring a Senior Talent Specialist to lead talent attraction and candidate engagement for our engineering division, driving stronger pipelines and quality hires . The role will combine hands on sourcing, candidate experience ownership and stakeholder partnership to deliver high quality short and long‑term hires. The successful candidate will act as a senior point of contact for clients, coach more junior recruiters, and drive continuous improvement across processes and systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for assigned vacancies: manage briefs with clients, design sourcing strategies, shortlist candidates, coordinate interviews and support offer negotiation to achieve time-to-hire and quality targets.

• Senior stakeholder management: build trusted relationships with clients, provide regular recruitment update meetings, and consult on workforce planning and role design.

• Candidate experience and employer brand: own the candidate journey from attraction to onboarding, ensuring consistent communication, timely feedback and positive experience that supports retention.

• Coaching and development: mentor and support junior talent team members, share best practice sourcing techniques, and contribute to team training sessions to raise capability and performance.

• Proactive sourcing and talent pipelining: use direct sourcing, networking, social media, job boards and ATS to build diverse pipelines for current and future demand.

• Process and compliance: ensure recruitment activity complies with internal policies and relevant employment legislation; support continuous improvement projects and system optimisations.

• Support flexible working patterns including occasional evenings or site visits as required by hiring needs.

Who we’re looking for:

• Experience: Significant, demonstrable experience in end-to-end recruitment or talent acquisition, ideally within staffing, in‑house or agency environments at a senior level.

• Commercial acumen: Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders, prioritising vacancies and identifying opportunities to improve recruitment outcomes and reduce costs.

• Technical: Confident using ATS/CRM systems, sourcing tools and reporting platforms; able to interpret data to inform decisions and optimise workflows.

• Skills: Excellent communication and influencing skills, strong assessment and interviewing capability, proactive problem-solving and effective time management.

• Attributes: Collaborative, resilient, adaptable to change, committed to candidate fairness and continuous learning.

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary with performance bonus and a market‑leading benefits package

• Career development and progression opportunities within a global staffing and talent business

• Supportive team culture, ongoing training and access to modern recruitment technology

Additional information:

• The role requires occasional travel to regional hubs and client sites; flexibility in working hours may be required to support recruitment events or interviews.

• Gi Group is committed to equality of opportunity and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.