Job Description

Senior Digital Talent Partner

Duration: 6 Months

Rate: £400 per day

Location: Hybrid working - Predominantly remote with one to two days onsite each week (London or Manchester; you can choose)

IR35 Status: Inside

Start: ASAP...

Role Overview

We require a Senior Digital Talent Partner for our government client to take ownership of their specialist and high-priority hiring.  You will work with senior leaders and build tailored search strategies across Technology, AI, Data, Cyber, Product and Digital delivery.  This is a hands-on leadership role and you will lead difficult searches, build relationships with specialist talent communities and manage a small team of Digital Talent Partners. You will be accountable for the quality of their campaigns and raise the standard of recruitment across the wider function.  As the Senior Digital Talent Partner, you will lead difficult hiring, advise senior leaders and help your team deliver brilliant recruitment campaigns.

Essential Skills & Experience required:

As the Senior Digital Talent Partner you will have personally mapped markets, approached passive candidates and built credible pipelines in areas such as engineering, AI, Data, Cyber, Product or Digital Delivery.

Are comfortable advising and challenging senior hiring managers, for example when expectations are unrealistic or the brief needs to change.

Can explain how you have changed a strategy when the original advert, channel, timeline or candidate profile was not working

Are able to turn recruitment data and talent insight into clear recommendations, as opposed to simply reporting activity.

Have led other recruiters or talent partners; have set priorities, coached colleagues and created the conditions for a small team to deliver high quality work consistently.

Have improved recruitment beyond an individual campaign - strengthened a process, tool, sourcing approach or way of working for the wider team.

Possess previous experience using Greenhouse, LinkedIn recruiter or other applicant tracking platforms.  

Proficient in talent sourcing, working across multiple job boards and experienced with technical and digital markets. 

Have knowledge and understanding of the different tech stacks as you will be working on niche, high-end tech roles.

Are confident to advise and select the best sourcing markets and sourcing strategies in order to achieve the required recruitment outcomes.

If this role is of interest; please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk