Recruitment Consultant

Role Overview

• Deliver end‑to‑end permanent recruitment for engineering roles across TfL
• Partner with hiring managers to understand workforce plans, role requirements, and timelines
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies using direct sourcing, LinkedIn, talent pooling, and attraction campaigns
• Manage candidate pipelines, shortlisting, interviews, and offer processes
• Provide market insight and guidance on attraction challenges, salary benchmarking, and diversity outcomes
• Ensure recruitment activity aligns with TfL’s diverse, fair and inclusive hiring approaches
• Maintain accurate data and reporting against SLAs, KPIs, and governance requirements
• Continuously improve recruitment processes and candidate experience

Requirements

• Proven experience recruiting engineering or technical roles
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience in owning end to end recruitment
• Excellent attention to detail, organised, responsive and proactive
• Experience managing multiple roles and priorities
• Capability in direct sourcing and talent attraction
• Excellent understanding of inclusive recruitment practices
• Strong attention to detail, with strong numeracy and analytical thinking
• Ability to identify process improvement opportunities
• Knows how to apply the jurisdictional law, regulation and agreed policy in relation to recruitment, resourcing and talent
• Ability to identify and apply appropriate tools and techniques to develop effective assessment
• To make recommendations for effective attraction and sourcing approaches based on business needs
• Understands a range of approaches to resource talent and how to deliver effective talent and succession solutions
• Good knowledge of the recruitment process and lifecycle
• Knowledge of how 3rd party recruitment providers operate
• Knowledge of managing and planning recruitment campaigns
• Awareness of working regulations timelines
• Good knowledge of the internal relationships and interfaces necessary for TfL Recruitment to operate
• Experience of designing, creating and deploying targeted multichannel attraction strategies and designing diversity and inclusion initiatives to attract a diverse and quality pool of candidates
• Experience of working to and meeting targets in a Business Services environment
• Experience and knowledge of recruitment best practices
• Experience of working with and managing 3rd party suppliers
• Strong track record of experience in working with self-service tools and processes
• Experience of working in a unionised environment

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow.
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel