Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Partner
Lancashire
Permanent
£36,000 - £46,000

Shape the future of talent attraction for a growing organisation and become the face of recruitment across the business and wider community.

We're looking for a passionate recruitment professional who thrives on finding, engaging, and securing great talent.

As the dedicated Talent Acquisition Specialist, you'll lead recruitment activity across all levels of the organisation, taking ownership of the full hiring journey while helping to strengthen employer brand and candidate experience. You'll represent the business externally at careers fairs, schools, colleges, and community events, acting as an ambassador for the organisation and helping to build future talent pipelines.

Alongside recruitment, there will be opportunities to support with wider HR activities where needed, working closely with a collaborative HR team. However, talent acquisition will always remain the core focus of the role.

This is primarily a site-based position, with flexibility for occasional home working rather than fixed remote days.

What you'll be doing

• Managing the full recruitment lifecycle from attraction through to onboarding
• Partnering with managers and senior leaders to understand hiring needs and build effective recruitment strategies
• Writing engaging job adverts and proactively sourcing candidates across multiple channels
• Acting as the face of the organisation at careers fairs, schools, colleges, and community engagement events
• Building strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs
• Ensuring an excellent candidate experience with timely communication and feedback
• Driving consistency and best practice across recruitment processes
• Confidently challenging and influencing stakeholders to ensure agreed recruitment standards and processes are followed
• Developing employer brand initiatives through social media, networking, and local engagement
• Managing agency relationships and identifying cost-effective recruitment solutions
• Using recruitment data and insights to improve hiring outcomes, diversity, and process efficiency
• Supporting with occasional generalist HR activities where required

What we're looking for

• Proven end-to-end in-house recruitment experience
• A genuine passion for recruitment and talent attraction
• Confident stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge at all levels of the organisation
• Experience recruiting across a variety of roles and levels
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously
• Proactive, self-motivated, and process-driven approach
• Experience representing an employer externally through events, networking, or employer branding activity would be highly beneficial
• Comfortable working in a visible, people-facing role where relationship-building is key

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious recruiter who wants to take ownership of talent acquisition, influence hiring strategy, and play a key role in shaping the future workforce of a growing organisation.