Talent Acquisition Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to work in a dynamic, hands on recruitment delivery role for Marshall Land Systems on a 6-month contract, you will be joining the company at a particularly busy time. It will suit someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple stakeholders and recruiting across a wide variety of roles and levels throughout the organisation.
The jobholder will support the team through a busy period of recruitment, working across engineering, technical and volume hiring. You will speak to a high volume of candidates, manage multiple vacancies and work closely with hiring managers to keep recruitment moving.
The jobholder will need to be comfortable managing competing priorities, working at pace and influencing and challenging stakeholders when needed. Most importantly, we require someone who enjoys recruitment, thrives on being busy and is ready to make an immediate contribution from day one.

Key responsibilities;
- Deliver end-to-end recruitment across technical, specialist, volume and early careers hiring, from initial briefing through to offer.
- Partner with hiring managers as a trusted Talent Acquisition adviser, providing recruitment expertise, market insight and constructive challenge to support effective hiring decisions.
- Support with the interviewing and selection process through recruitment screening and qualifying candidates.
- Design and deliver recruitment campaigns and assessment processes that are engaging, effective, fair and tailored to different roles, levels and functions.
- Work closely with our RPO partner, supporting the day-to-day relationship, service delivery and alignment with business requirements.
- Champion an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience, ensuring our recruitment processes are engaging, inclusive, consistent and well communicated.
- Support and coach hiring managers through our hiring skills initiatives.
- Ensure recruitment activity is compliant and well governed, including right-to-work, visa and IR35 considerations where relevant.
- Identify opportunities to improve how we recruit, helping us streamline processes, strengthen talent pipelines and continually improve the experience we provide.
- Regular progress updates and reporting.

Apply if you have most of the following:

- Experience within an in-house Resourcing/Talent Acquisition function.
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end recruitment, ideally in engineering, manufacturing, defence, technology or another complex or technical environment.
- Strong understanding of recruitment methodologies, candidate sourcing and assessment approaches.
- Experience working with hiring managers and stakeholders, with the confidence to advise, influence and constructively challenge where appropriate.
- Confidence using recruitment data and insight to identify trends, inform decisions and improve recruitment activity.
- An understanding of recruitment compliance, including areas such as right-to-work, visas and IR35.
- A genuine commitment to delivering an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience.
- Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns and priorities at the same time.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to build effective relationships with internal teams and external partners.

Location - We are open to candidates looking for either on-site or remote working, depending on individual circumstances and business requirements. If remote you will need to be able to travel to Cambridge or Merthyr Tydfil on a monthly basis for team/client meetings.
- Security Clearance - The successful candidate will be required to complete a BPSS check.

Benefits of this role include:
- Work at pace in a varied recruitment environment and manage a broad mix of engineering, technical, volume and early careers recruitment across the organisation.
- Build strong stakeholder experience - work closely with hiring managers, advising, influencing and challenging to help deliver successful recruitment outcomes.
- Gain experience in a specialist engineering environment – recruit for roles where technical skills and specialist expertise are central to the business.
- Make an immediate contribution – join a busy team where your recruitment expertise will be valued and your contribution will have a visible impact.
- Broaden your in-house Talent Acquisition experience – gain exposure to RPO partnership, assessment and selection, candidate experiences and recruitment process improvement.

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.

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