Talent Acquisition Manager
Posted 11 days 14 hours ago by Jobtailor
Permanent
Full Time
HR / Recruitment Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
- Design and run proactive sourcing strategies across LinkedIn, networking, and direct outreach
- Develop structured talent maps for priority roles and maintain warm pipelines of high-calibre candidates
- Use data and tooling - including AI-enabled sourcing tools - to enrich candidate intelligence and reduce time-to-shortlist
- Actively support Partner and Director searches: owning sourcing, candidate engagement, and process coordination
- Manage end-to-end recruitment from Senior Associate to Director level, ensuring a consistent, high-quality candidate experience
- Brief hiring managers and Partners effectively - hold timelines, feedback loops, and decisions with discipline
- Continuously improve role briefs, interview frameworks, and assessment approaches
- Manage and optimise the ATS and supporting hiring infrastructure as the firm scales
- Track meaningful hiring metrics: time to hire, pipeline conversion, source quality, offer acceptance
- Develop playbooks and templates that make the process more repeatable and scalable
- Represent Unity credibly in the market at every candidate touchpoint
- Support employer brand initiatives including content, events, and referral programmes
- Act as an ambassador for Unity's culture and Ownership Model
- 5-8 years of talent acquisition experience, either in-house within professional services (Big Four, mid-tier, or boutique advisory) or as a specialist agency recruiter placing into finance/professional services
- Deep knowledge of at least one of: Deals and Financial Due Diligence (FDD), Office of the CFO / Finance Transformation, or Tax
- Proven track record of sourcing and securing strong hires at Manager to Director level in high-calibre environments
- Comfortable engaging Partner and Director-level candidates directly
- Experience improving hiring processes in a scaling environment
- Consultative and intelligent in your approach to hiring - you think about fit, not just profile
- Strong relationship builder across candidates, hiring managers, and senior Partners
- Clear and direct communicator, written and verbal
- Commercially aware: you understand why hiring decisions matter to a PE-backed business
- Comfortable with data - used to improve, not just report
- Genuinely collaborative - comfortable sharing workload and building something jointly
- High ownership: you see a gap and close it, without being asked twice
- Low ego: you share credit freely and focus on what is right for the firm
- Honest and direct: candid feedback to candidates and hiring managers alike
- Curious about talent practice - not just filling roles, but building something
Demonstrates expertise in talent acquisition with a focus on sourcing strategies, candidate engagement, and process optimization. Proficient in managing recruitment processes for senior-level roles while leveraging data and tools to enhance hiring efficiency and candidate experience.
Highest-signal resume keywords- Talent Acquisition Experience
- Sourcing Strategies
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Process Improvement
- Recruitment
- Candidate Sourcing
- Talent Mapping
- Hiring Metrics Tracking
- Interview Framework Development
- Assessment Approaches
- ATS Management
- Employer Branding
- High-Calibre Candidate Engagement
- Process Coordination
- Clear Communication
- Relationship Building
- Collaborative Mindset
- Ownership
- Curiosity
- Professional Services
- Finance Transformation
- Financial Due Diligence
- Tax
- PE-Backed Business
- AI-Enabled Sourcing Tools
- Hiring Infrastructure