Talent Acquisition Partner - 9 Month Fixed-Term Contract...

Who: SOFYNE Active Technology, part of Quariq Group

What: Talent Acquisition Partner (Maternity Cover FTC 9 months)

Where: Holborn office, London, UK (hybrid after training period)

When: December 2026 start - TBC

Why: Maternity cover/growth in a successful business critical team

About the Role

SOFYNE Active Technology, part of the Quariq Group, is looking for a proactive and commercially minded Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Human Resources team on a 9-month fixed-term maternity cover contract.

Reporting directly to the Talent Acquisition Director, you will play a critical role in attracting, engaging and hiring top talent across Europe. This role combines hands-on recruitment delivery, talent advisory and strategic sourcing, with a particular focus on technical and specialist hiring within industrial technology, manufacturing digitalisation, automation and software consulting environments.

You will partner closely with hiring managers, HR colleagues and business leaders to deliver exceptional hiring outcomes while ensuring a positive and seamless candidate experience. Success in this role will require strong direct sourcing capabilities, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to quickly build credibility within a fast-paced, international organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle across Europe, from vacancy briefing through to offer management and onboarding.

• Recruit for a broad range of technical and specialist positions, including areas such as Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES/MOM), Industrial Automation, OT Security, Software Engineering, Project Management, Consulting and Corporate Functions.

• Partner with hiring managers to understand current and future workforce needs and develop effective attraction strategies.

• Build and maintain robust pipelines of "ready now" and future talent through proactive sourcing and talent mapping activities.

• Utilise LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, referrals, talent communities and other innovative sourcing channels to identify and engage passive candidates.

• Act as a trusted talent advisor, providing market intelligence, salary benchmarking, talent availability insights and recruitment recommendations.

• Lead candidate assessment and interview processes, ensuring fair, effective and inclusive hiring decisions.

• Deliver an outstanding candidate experience throughout the recruitment journey while promoting the SOFYNE, AG Solution and Quariq employer brands.

• Maintain accurate recruitment data, ATS records and reporting metrics to support decision-making and workforce planning.

• Partner with the wider global Talent Acquisition team to share best practices, improve recruitment processes and drive continuous improvement.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 4 years' recruitment experience gained within an in-house, agency or RPO environment.

• Proven experience recruiting technical talent across the UK and Europe.

• Demonstrable success sourcing and hiring difficult-to-find technical profiles through direct sourcing approaches.

• Experience managing multiple vacancies simultaneously across different functions, geographies and stakeholder groups.

• Strong knowledge of end-to-end recruitment processes, including candidate attraction, assessment, offer management and onboarding.

• Experience partnering with senior hiring managers and influencing recruitment decisions.

• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems and recruitment technologies.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Self-sufficient, proactive and capable of quickly building credibility and delivering impact.

Preferred

• Experience recruiting within software, technology, industrial automation, manufacturing technology, engineering or consulting environments.

• Experience using Teamtailor (preferably but not a must), LinkedIn Recruiter and talent intelligence tools.

• Familiarity with recruitment across multiple European countries.

• Fluency in French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish or Portuguese would be advantageous.

Key Competencies

• Accountability and ownership

• Commercial mindset

• Relationship building and stakeholder management

• Candidate-centric approach

• Problem-solving and adaptability

• Attention to detail

• Collaboration and teamwork

• Data-driven decision making

• Continuous improvement mindset

What's in it for You?

• Opportunity to join a growing international technology business with ambitious growth plans.

• Exposure to hiring across multiple countries, functions and specialist technical disciplines.

• A highly collaborative and supportive HR and Talent Acquisition team.

• Hybrid working environment based from our Holborn office (spectacular views!).

• The opportunity to make a direct impact on the growth and success of the business.

Application Process

Your CV will tell us about your experience, but we're equally interested in what motivates you. Alongside your application, we'd love to learn:

• What gives you energy and satisfaction at work.

• The type of environment where you perform at your best.

• Why you believe you would be successful in this role.

• Your experience using Teamtailor (or similar ATS platforms), including any involvement in system configuration, workflow management or process optimisation.

SOFYNE Active Technology has been integrating and deploying MES, LES and PLM solutions since 2005.

We support and advise more than 30 major industrial accounts in their innovation and digital transformation projects towards Industry 4.0.

With offices across Europe, we cover the audit, integration, evolution, application maintenance, support and change management needs of our customers.

Our approach is built around the framework and capabilities of a large company with the heart and soul of a small business, fostering high quality and performance services, agile development and added value for our clients, in the automotive, energy, aerospace and defense, consumer products and luxury sectors.

All this acquired knowledge is what enables us to best understand how these evolutions impact manufacturing information systems.

Sofyne Active Technology is certified with the international standard ISO27001.

Key Figures:

• 6 offices: Lyon (FR), Versailles (FR), Krakow (PL), Geneva (CH), London (UK), Porto (PT)

• Around 200 experts

• 35 customers (ranked in the Fortune Global 500)

• 30 000 days of project / year

• 1350 training days (2025)

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