Talent Acquisition Lead

The Opportunity

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

Our growing business is seeking an experienced, commercially aware and strategically minded Talent Acquisition Lead to support our Talent Acquisition function in our People Services team.

We are looking for someone who can help us scale intelligently - identifying recruitment challenges, analysing root causes, and designing practical, commercially sound solutions that enable sustainable growth.

You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, combining hands‑on expertise in niche technology recruitment with the ability to shape strategy, improve processes and strengthen our talent capability as we continue to grow our business across the UK and internationally.

At Informed Solutions, we are committed to the growth and development of our people. You’ll benefit from structured career progression, accredited training, and opportunities to gain new skills and certifications, all within a supportive environment that encourages curiosity, continuous learning, and will pave the way for a fulfilling and rewarding career with us.

You’ll be excited by the opportunity to:

• Identify recruitment bottlenecks and conversion gaps, analysing KPI data to determine root causes and recommending practical improvements.
• Develop and implement scalable recruitment processes to support sustained business growth.
• Introduce new sourcing strategies, pipeline approaches and talent mapping methodologies to reduce reliance on reactive hiring.
• Partner with leadership to forecast future workforce needs and build forward‑looking hiring plans.
• Lead initiatives to improve efficiency, quality of hire and stakeholder experience.

• Provide market insight on salary trends, talent availability, competitor activity and emerging technical skills.
• Advise and influence stakeholders on role design, hiring timelines and attraction strategies based on evidence and market data.
• Translate recruitment metrics into clear, commercially relevant insights.

You’ll also be closely involved across the full recruitment lifecycle for experienced and niche technology roles (e.g. Software Engineering, User Centred Design, Digital Delivery) which includes:

• Proactive headhunting and engage specialist talent using Linked In Recruiter, networking and targeted market mapping.
• Conduct thorough screening and assessment to ensure strong technical and cultural alignment.
• Provide Support and Mentor Talent Acquisition team.

• Extensive experience recruiting niche technology talent within an in‑house environment.
• Demonstrable experience building or improving recruitment strategies in a scaling business.
• Proven ability to diagnose hiring challenges and implement measurable improvements.
• Strong analytical capability and confident using data to inform decisions.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to balance speed, quality and cost.
• Credible and confident stakeholder advisor, experienced at influence at senior levels to drive our resourcing strategy and business growth.

• Resilience and adaptability to work…