Director Talent Acquisition

Whizz HR, leading media recruitment firm is now on a look out for a Talent Acquisition Specialist.

Your responsibilities as the head of resourcing and talent management will include:
• Identifying your organisation’s needs and working to create and implement an efficient talent acquisition strategy to improve recruitment and business performance
• * Developing, managing and maintaining a highly-skilled team to assist with talent development
• * Understanding workforce planning and resource forecasting by working with the resourcing team to feed into recruitment timelines
• * Communicating with external sources, i.e. peer organisations to acknowledge any trends in recruitment and markets which could impact upon the business
• * Anticipating the organisations future and working with senior executives to advise on recruiting tactics that will help to sustain the company’s success
• * Developing and retaining a diverse talent acquisition team
• * Applying strategies to attract diverse candidates to all areas of the business
• * Partnering with the broader talent acquisition team for shared use of tools and resources
• * Managing and delivering reports and data when required
• Head of talent acquisition skills and competencies

Experience in managing and overseeing a talent acquisition team and evidence of transforming the recruitment function within an organisation is key. A degree qualification is not essential but is often beneficial.

Having commercial and analytical know-how is required, as is having strong communication and leadership skills. You must be strategic, influential and confident in building relationships with employees at all levels.

Heads of talent acquisition will be expected to be proficient in the following:
• Pushing talent acquisition change programmes from both a strategic and operative level
• Experience in managing a recruitment team with a strong understanding of talent acquisition
• Ability to be strategic and tactical when making decisions
• Interpersonal and motivational skills; you should be capable of building relationships across