Talent Acquisition Lead

Does this sound like you?
You’re a strategic and people-driven talent professional who loves bringing great people and great opportunities together. Confident partnering with senior leaders and rolling up your sleeves when needed, you balance big-picture thinking with hands-on delivery. 

You’re passionate about creating exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences, shaping an authentic employer brand, and using data and insight to continuously improve. With a blend of creativity, curiosity, and commercial awareness, you see recruitment not just as filling roles—but as shaping the future of the business.

What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell):
Reporting directly to the Chief People Officer, the Talent Acquisition Lead will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the organisation’s hiring strategy. This role oversees all aspects of recruitment - both internal and external - while managing one direct report. 

The Talent Acquisition Lead will own and optimise the Applicant Tracking System (Teamtailor), build and deliver a forward-thinking employer brand strategy, and ensure a best-in-class experience for candidates and hiring managers alike.

Day-to-day you can expect to:

Talent Acquisition

• Develop and deliver a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy aligned with the organisation’s long-term growth plans.

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring efficiency, fairness, and an exceptional candidate experience.

• Stay ahead of industry trends and innovations in talent acquisition by attending events, building networks, and applying best practices.

• Deliver training and guidance to hiring managers to ensure effective, inclusive, and high-quality recruitment practices.

Business Partnering

• Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including hiring managers, senior leaders, and external partners.

• Partner with business leaders to understand current and future talent needs, forecasting and prioritising recruitment activity accordingly.

• Collaborate on internal talent and career mapping, advocating for internal mobility and challenging assumptions where appropriate.

Employer Branding & EVP

• Define, develop, and promote a compelling employer brand that authentically represents the company culture, values, and Employee Value Proposition (EVP).

• Drive consistent, high-quality candidate experiences across all touchpoints, from application to onboarding.

• Oversee initiatives to build external brand presence and engagement across social, digital, and professional platforms.

• Design and implement an alumni programme to drive referrals, engagement, and potential rehires.

Team Management & Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a small but high-performing team, fostering collaboration, curiosity, and accountability.

• Provide regular feedback, professional development, and growth opportunities for direct reports.

• Promote continuous improvement and innovation within the Talent Acquisition function.

Reporting & Analytics

• Build and maintain a talent acquisition reporting dashboard to monitor key metrics such as time-to-hire, quality of hire, and candidate experience.

• Analyse recruitment data to identify process improvements and inform decision-making.

• Provide regular insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

• Use data to forecast future hiring needs, track market trends, and evaluate employer brand effectiveness.

To be successful, you'll have:

• Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes across a variety of functions and levels.

• Demonstrated ability to design and execute a talent acquisition strategy aligned with business goals.

• Experience owning and optimising an ATS (ideally Teamtailor).

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience partnering at senior levels.

• Demonstrable experience in employer branding and candidate experience initiatives.

• Excellent communication, analytical, and organisational skills.

• People management experience with the ability to coach and inspire team members.

Why Perkbox?

In 2025, Perkbox and Vivup came together under one name: the new and evolved Perkbox.

We joined forces to create something bigger and better - a single, unified platform built to care for, connect with, and celebrate employees in all areas of life. With more than 20 years of combined experience across public, private, SME and corporate sectors, we’re now supporting over 4 million employees across 7,500 organisations.

From access to expert mental health services to help with the cost of everyday essentials, our expanded range of benefits and wellbeing tools meets people where they are - at work and beyond.

Together, we’re redefining what employee benefits can be. And we’re just getting started.

The Interview Process

Our interview process involves 3 main stages:

• Short call with a member of the TA team
• 30-minute video call with Hiring Manager and one other team member
• Final Interview and task with two members of the team

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process. If you have any specific questions ahead of this, please contact us on [email protected]

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations

We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!