Lead Talent Specialist

Role Overview

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for technical & non-technical roles across Transform.
• Partner with our Leadership Community and hiring managers to define role requirements, skills, and success profiles.
• Proactively source and engage high-quality technical & non-technical candidates through direct outreach, networks, and targeted sourcing.
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle including screening, interviewing coordination, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
• Build and maintain a high-quality network of trusted associates, and specialist consultants to support project delivery.
• Identify and engage specialist talent aligned to Transform’s service offerings and emerging client demand.
• Maintain strong relationships with external talent to enable rapid deployment to client engagements.
• Support commercial teams and delivery leads in identifying appropriate contract resources when required.
• Build proactive talent pipelines across priority areas.
• Maintain visibility of available skills across the contractor network.
• Act as a trusted partner to leaders across Transform, bringing your knowledge, skills and insight to support the team successes.
• Provide insight into market availability, hiring trends, and compensation benchmarks.
• Promote Transform as an attractive destination for exceptional talent.
• Engage with professional communities, industry groups, and talent networks.
• Develop long-term relationships with high-potential candidates and specialists.
• Continuously improve recruitment processes and candidate experience.
• Implement scalable approaches to sourcing, talent tracking, and pipeline management.
• Track and report key recruitment metrics such as pipeline strength, time-to-hire and NPS.

Requirements

• Strong experience recruiting technical or consulting talent within a consultancy, technology company, or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated success in direct sourcing and headhunting technical & non-technical specialists.
• Experience building and managing contractor or associate talent networks.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to work closely with senior leaders.
• Experience working in partnership with leaders across the business.
• Good understanding of technical roles such as engineering, cloud, data, digital delivery, architecture, or similar. Alongside non-technical, such as Consultants, Product Managers, Service Designers etc.
• Strong experience using and maintaining a range of recruitment systems to support hiring.
• AI ready and open to proactively exploring new technology
• Growth mindset

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement, 28 days with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days (note that 3 days are held for Christmas holidays)
• Day off (on or in the week of) your birthday
• Pension eligibility, up to 5% matched contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity and enhanced paternity and shared parental leave
• Cycle to work schemes
• Gym & retail discounts
• Regular social events/activities
• A range of other benefits from our flexible benefits package