Talent Acquisition Lead

Talent Acquisition Lead

Department: People (HR)

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Trimble Offices, Morley

Compensation: £42,000 - £52,000 / year

Description About the team:

At Vintage Cash Cow and Arcavindi, our People Team is passionate about creating an exceptional employee experience, from first interaction to long-term growth. Within the team, our Talent Acquisition function is dedicated to finding, engaging, and hiring people who share our purpose: creating a world where everything has value and nothing is wasted.

We partner across Operations, Logistics, Tech, and Commercial teams to ensure every hire strengthens our culture and fuels our mission: to build the world's largest trading platform for pre loved items, driven by people and data.

We don't just hire for skills. We hire people who add to our culture - bringing curiosity, ownership, and fresh thinking to help us scale sustainably.

About the role:

As a Talent Acquisition Lead / Manager, you own hiring performance for your market.

You are accountable for delivery outcomes, stakeholder confidence, sourcing effectiveness, and process excellence across your region (UK or EU).

This is a leadership role with hands on credibility. While you won't carry the same volume as a TA Partner, you remain close enough to delivery to coach, unblock, and elevate standards.

You'll lead and develop TA Partners and Resourcing Partners, ensuring structured hiring, strong pipelines, and a consistent, values led candidate experience.

You are the bridge between global TA strategy and market execution.

Getting Started

• Build a deep understanding of your market's workforce plan and hiring priorities.
• Establish trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and hiring managers.
• Review current pipeline health, time to hire, and performance metrics.
• Align your team on sourcing focus, SLAs, and quality standards.

Establishing Your Impact

• Take accountability for market level hiring performance and delivery outcomes.
• Coach TA Partners and Resourcing Partners to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Drive clarity in intake sessions, role scoping, and success profiling.
• Strengthen proactive pipelining across recurring and critical roles.
• Ensure structured, inclusive hiring practices are embedded across your region.

Driving Excellence

• Own market hiring forecasts and workforce planning alignment.
• Lead sourcing strategy for your region, ensuring strong channel performance and diverse talent pools.
• Monitor funnel health, conversion rates, and time to hire metrics.
• Identify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements.
• Activate EVP and attraction initiatives within your market.
• Support senior or critical hiring projects where required.
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within TA.

Key Goals & Objectives

• Deliver hiring performance in line with workforce plan and agreed SLAs.
• Maintain 30 day average time to hire across supported functions.
• Maintain 90%+ hiring manager satisfaction within your market.
• Improve funnel conversion and pipeline strength quarter on quarter.
• Reduce agency reliance through effective sourcing strategy.
• Ensure consistent ATS discipline and data accuracy across your team.
• Embed inclusive hiring practices across all roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Own market level recruitment performance and reporting.
• Lead and develop TA Partners and Resourcing Partners.
• Facilitate effective intake and workforce planning conversations.
• Oversee structured interview processes and quality control.
• Review pipeline data and take action on conversion gaps.
• Drive sourcing focus across priority and hard to fill roles.
• Partner with Head of TA on forecasting and strategic workforce planning.
• Represent TA in senior stakeholder discussions.
• Support onboarding session delivery where required.
• Champion continuous improvement and operational discipline across TA.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years' recruitment experience (in house preferred).
• Experience leading or mentoring recruiters in a fast paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder management at senior level.
• Proven success delivering hiring performance across multiple functions.
• Strong sourcing understanding and pipeline strategy capability.
• Comfortable analysing recruitment data and performance metrics.
• Experience working across multiple markets is advantageous.
• Confident, structured, and commercially aware.
• Curious, people focused, and purpose driven.