Talent Acquisition Partner (6 month contract)
Cambridge, United Kingdom
People Team – People Team /
Contract /
Hybrid
We're looking for an experienced, proactive Talent Acquisition Partner to join our People team and help Gearset reach our ambitious growth plans over the next 6 months. We need an experienced recruiter to hit the ground running, helping us proactively find and hire exceptional people to join our team.
What’s the opportunity for a Talent Acquisition Partner at Gearset?
- You will be joining our team of Talent Acquisition Partners and will recruit across a diverse range of job roles across the entire company.
- You’ll partner with hiring managers to understand the skills, talent and roles we need to grow.
- You’ll be responsible for sourcing candidates through various channels. This involves conducting thorough screenings to assess candidates' skills, experience, and cultural fit with Gearset
- Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline for future hiring needs
- Use metrics to track the effectiveness of the recruitment strategies and make suggestions for areas for improvement
What you’ll achieve
- Be focussed to proactively source, identify and approach outstanding talent to join us
- Think creatively and outside the box - so we are known by the best candidates within our industry for even the most hard to fill roles
- Get to grips with the technical nature of the majority of Gearset candidates - connect and build relationships in a personalised way, so you are not just another recruiter filling their inbox
- Be our brand ambassador - getting candidates excited and motivated to apply, explaining our product, company values and what it is like to work at Gearset
- Own the candidate experience - you will be passionate about ensuring that every candidate gets the best experience at every stage of the process with us
- Screen candidates effectively to find out if they’ll be a good fit for our team before passing them on for interview to keep our pipeline efficient
- Analyse, track and report on your hiring pipeline and interviewing process - to ensure we deliver on our hiring goals and SLAs
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvements early on and take ownership to work with your hiring managers and the People team to deliver these results
- Train and up-skill our hiring managers to constantly improve and strengthen our recruitment process and ensure we maintain our high hiring standards to recruit the best people
About you
- Experience in talent acquisition - headhunting, sourcing and proactively building a pipeline of talent, thinking outside of the box
- Experience working in a fast paced start-up environment or fast growing company
- A track record of recruiting across all level roles - entry through to senior leadership - in a tech environment, and have hired technical roles
- A mix of agency and in-house experience is highly desirable
Great to haves
- Experience of using Lever ATS
Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)
- Salary is between £40k - £60k (depending on experience)
- This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 3 days a week in the office)
- Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
- Top end hardware provided
- Free lunch in the office
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
- Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
- Bupa health care
- Life Insurance & critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits
