Talent Acquisition Specialist - 9 month FTC
4 days ago
Coventry
Are you available immediately and looking for a varied Talent Acquisition role recruiting everything from entry level through to C-suite level vacancies across the UK, Ireland and Nordics?\n\nIf you're passionate about finding great talent, building strong stakeholder partnerships, and elevating recruitment standards across a global organisation-we'd love to hear from you.\n\nPlease note this is a 9-month fixed term contract, that's a hybrid opportunity based in / around Coventry/Midlands with flexibility on your base location, visibility on across sites and travel is an essential part of the role.\n\nThis is a full 360 internal recruitment role where you'll need to be able to hit the ground running, have confidence in your recruitment expertise and be proactive in your approach.\n\nWith a broad scope, your role will include:\n\nActing as a trusted advisor to HR, business leaders and hiring managers\nManaging full lifecycle recruitment-from briefing and sourcing to interviews, assessments, compliance steps and offer management.\nDesigning tailored hiring strategies for each vacancy\nProactively sourcing candidates (active and passive) using social media, talent pools, market mapping, networking, and the ATS.\nRepresenting the company at careers events, job fairs and industry networking opportunities.\nMaintaining high-quality data in the ATS, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and effective reporting.\nManaging agency and supplier relationships, negotiating terms and ensuring service excellence.\nLeading a smooth feedback and offer process, working closely with hiring managers to ensure timely candidate communication.\nChampioning a great candidate and hiring manager experience, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.\nProviding up-to-date market insights to hiring managers and HR partners to guide workforce decisions.\nSupporting TA projects across Europe, such as employer branding, ATS enhancements, interview training, ED&I initiatives and social media campaigns.We're looking for proactive individual who can demonstrate:\n\nStrong end‑to‑end recruitment experience in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment.\nA combination of agency and inhouse experience. (Desirable) \nProven capability to manage recruitment from entry level to C‑suite across multiple functions; strong experience within operations and engineering is highly desirable.\nConfidence using ATS platforms, sourcing tools and assessment methods.\nExcellent stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills.\nAbility to prioritise, deliver at pace, and maintain a high-quality candidate experience.\nProfessionalism, integrity, and a collaborative mindset.\n Please also note:\n\nTravel: Full UK driving licence and own vehicle required for travel between sites.\n This is a great opportunity and the process will be moving quickly - do reach out if you have any questions or would like more information!\n\nLocation: \n\nCoventry (or potential to be based at other sites in/around the Midlands area)\n\nDuration: \n\n9-month fixed term contract\n\nHours : \n\nMonday-Friday 37.5 hours per week with flexible start/finish times\n\nSalary: \n\nNegotiable\n\nEA First Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency for this fixed term contract vacancy