Talent Acquisition Manager

Overview

C&C Search is recruiting for a Talent Acquisition Manager role based in London. This highly visible position sits at the heart of the firm's growth, reporting to senior leadership and leading internal recruitment across consultants, researchers, partners, and business services professionals. In addition to talent acquisition, you will contribute to core HR activities that foster engagement, development, and retention.

Location: London • Salary: £50,000 - £75,000

For this role, please contact Bella Hughes - Principal Consultant at if this role is applicable. If not, consider our referral scheme.

All about the company: Executive Search firm, small size, fast-paced and agile with a strong collaborative and high-performance culture.

The role will suit a professional who thrives in a fast-paced, intellectually rigorous environment, balancing strategic initiatives with hands-on delivery, and who wants to make a tangible impact on a growing executive search firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Talent Acquisition: Partner with senior leaders to align workforce planning with business objectives.
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle: role scoping, job design, sourcing, interviewing, and offer negotiation.
• Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies, leveraging executive search methodologies, headhunting, and market mapping.
• Build and maintain pipelines of high-calibre candidates for immediate and future business needs.
• Provide insight through salary benchmarking, market intelligence, and competitor analysis.
• Champion an outstanding candidate experience, underpinned by discretion, transparency, and professionalism.
• Lead employer branding initiatives, positioning Tenex as an employer of choice within executive search and professional services.
• Ensure all hiring practices reflect DEI best practice and adhere to employment law and compliance standards.

• People & HR Support: Oversee onboarding, ensure a seamless transition for new joiners.
• Support offboarding processes, including exit interviews and knowledge transfer.
• Manage HR administration such as contracts, employee records, and compliance documentation.
• Contribute to employee engagement, wellbeing, and recognition initiatives.
• Provide first-line HR guidance on policies, processes, and people matters.
• Collaborate with leadership and HR colleagues on projects including performance management, learning & development, and organisational effectiveness.

Skills & Experience

• Proven track record in talent acquisition within executive search, recruitment, or professional services.
• Experience hiring senior and specialist roles, with the ability to engage credibly with executive-level candidates.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing strategies, talent mapping, and pipeline management.
• Hands-on experience of HR processes, particularly onboarding, contracts, and lifecycle management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to influence senior leadership.
• Proficiency in ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, and HRIS platforms.
• Solid understanding of employment law and HR best practices.
• Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable managing competing priorities in a high-performance environment.

Other Details

Bella Hughes - Principal Consultant

For this role C&C Search is acting as an employment agency.

At C&C Search, diversity, equity and inclusion are at the core of who we are and how we operate. Our commitment to these values is unwavering across recruitment, training and development programmes. C&C Search fosters a culture of inclusion and belonging and partners with clients who are also committed to equality and inclusion. We work with companies that reflect our communities, where people can bring their authentic selves to work.

C&C Search is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.