Talent Acquisition Manager

Application Deadline: 21 September 2026

Department: People

Location: Silverstone

Description

At Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team, our success is driven by exceptional people. We are looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead our recruitment function, shape our talent strategy, and help us attract world-class talent to support our ambitions on and off the track.

Working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment, you will play a key role in ensuring we continue to build teams capable of competing at the very highest level.

Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a forward-looking talent acquisition strategy aligned with the team's performance goals and workforce plan.
• Partner with senior leadership, HR, and functional heads to anticipate hiring needs and shape future capability pipelines.
• Use data and insights to drive workforce decisions, improve processes, and measure effectiveness.

Talent Attraction & Branding

• Build and lead employer branding initiatives that position the team as an employer of choice across engineering, performance, and business disciplines.
• Partner with our ESG team to support and champion DE&I in all recruitment activity, ensuring diverse representation and inclusive candidate experiences.
• Collaborate with Communications and Marketing to craft compelling candidate messaging, creative content and recruitment campaigns.

Operational Excellence

• Lead, coach, and develop the TA team to deliver high-quality, timely hiring outcomes across all business areas.
• Drive consistency and efficiency in recruitment processes, from briefing and sourcing to selection and offer management.
• Ensure exceptional candidate experience and hiring manager engagement throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Manage and continuously improve tools, systems (ATS/CRM), and reporting to optimize efficiency and data accuracy.

Market Intelligence & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with Emerging Talent and wider team to support strong relationships with external partners, universities, and industry networks to maintain a steady flow of top-tier talent.
• Conduct market mapping, competitor analysis to inform proactive sourcing strategies and maintain critical talent pipelines with proactive management of niche talent.
• Advise hiring managers and senior stakeholders on recruitment best practice, compensation benchmarking, and talent trends.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience in a Talent Acquisition Manager or senior recruitment leadership role in high-performance, fast-paced environment (e.g., motorsport, elite sport, advanced engineering, or technology).
• Strong knowledge of talent acquisition strategy, workforce planning and recruitment best practice.
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching and developing recruitment teams.
• Proven track record of delivering recruitment process improvements and operational excellence.
• Ideally a proven and strong network across engineering, technology, and performance-driven talent markets.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the business.
• Excellent analytical capability with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of workforce analytics and recruitment marketing strategies.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with a passion for delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

Benefits

Investing in your career is paramount. We promote professional and personal development through a provision of learning opportunities and work with you to shape your career and realise your full potential.

As part of our high-performing, collaborative team, you'll enjoy a competitive package, including a discretionary bonus scheme, private healthcare, pension plan, life assurance, TEDSgroup childcare benefits, a cycle-to-work scheme, tech scheme, and car scheme.

You will also have access to our state-of-the-art facilities at the AMR Technology Campus, featuring a new on-site gym with fitness, spin and yoga classes, a bistro café, and restaurant.

Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team is committed to making sure our selection methods are fair for all. If you would like to request that reasonable adjustments are made, please share this in your application when asked.