Principal Talent Partner - Public Sector

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We’re looking for an experienced Principal Talent Partner to join our Public Sector Resourcing team, supporting permanent hiring for the Ministry of Defence.

This is a senior-level opportunity for someone with strong 360 recruitment and proactive sourcing capability, who can operate as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders and take ownership of complex, specialist and hard-to-fill recruitment requirements. You will be responsible for delivering an end to end recruitment service to MOD to include managing vacancy briefings, marketing of campaigns, and the sourcing, screening, presentation, provisional offer of employment and engagement of candidates through to their start-dates, whilst maintaining service level agreements.

You’ll use market intelligence and talent insights to challenge and influence hiring strategies, while proactively identifying and engaging passive talent through a true search-led approach.

You’ll be comfortable providing recommendations to senior stakeholders and adapting recruitment strategies based on market conditions and candidate insight.

Act as a Trusted Adviser

• Develop strong partnerships and working relationships that deliver an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Lead recruiting discussions and act as a trusted adviser and thought leader, partnering confidently with Hiring Managers and HR teams.
• Use meaningful market insight, historic hiring trends, and talent intelligence to inform and influence recruitment strategy and hiring outcomes.
• Proactively bring insight and recommendations to recruitment discussions at the outset of the process.
• Demonstrate tact and confidence when engaging with client stakeholders, proposing solutions to complex or niche hiring challenges.
• Be accountable for delivering high‑quality, candidate longlists / shortlists with accurate and complete information to support informed hiring decisions.
• Share candidate feedback, challenges, and successes, making recommendations to adapt sourcing and recruitment strategies.
• Deliver end to end recruitment services compliant with Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles
• Support, coach, and mentor junior colleagues and act as a lead contributor in problem‑solving discussions.
• Demonstrate extensive permanent sourcing experience, using a full range of proactive sourcing tools and techniques, adopting a true search methodology to identify and engage passive talent.
• Develop bespoke sourcing strategies for specialist, niche, and hard‑to‑fill roles.
• Create and post compelling job adverts that accurately represent the client brand and attract suitable candidates.
• Leverage Linked In, social media, direct search, and other channels to build strong, diverse candidate pipelines.
• Proactively take steps to increase the diversity of applicants
• Manage high volumes of activity while maintaining quality, accuracy, and pace.
• Measure and refine sourcing effectiveness using data and MI, adapting approach where required and sharing insights with stakeholders.
• Engage candidates through professional, consultative conversations, qualifying suitability for current and future roles.

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