Senior Talent Partner

The Associate Director, Talent Acquisition will own our Talent Acquisition pillar within the global People team, leading both the strategy and day-to-day delivery of recruitment across the agency. You’ll personally manage the full talent lifecycle, from shaping the hiring brief and sourcing strategy through assessment, offer, close and onboarding.

At tmp, onboarding is the final phase of recruitment, and you’ll be accountable for ensuring every new hire moves from accepted offer to effective contribution with clarity, connection and confidence. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers and the wider People team to create a consistent, high-quality experience that helps new starters understand their role, team and path to success.

Attracting and integrating great talent is critical to tmp’s growth, innovation and ability to deliver for our clients. You’ll do this as part of a global People team that is obsessively curious, unashamedly commercial and focused on building systems that work for our business, candidates and employees.

We’re looking for someone who can move seamlessly between recruiting for an urgent role today and thinking about what our talent landscape will look like tomorrow. You’ll bring external market insight, strong commercial judgment and a deep understanding of how talent impacts the performance of a services business. You’ll help leaders think critically about the capability they need, where we can find it and how tmp can compete effectively for it.

• Own and evolve tmp’s Talent Acquisition strategy in line with our business priorities, People strategy and future capability needs
• Partner with senior leaders to understand what they are trying to achieve and translate that into thoughtful hiring strategies, rather than simply responding to open requisitions
• Bring commercial judgment to hiring decisions, considering role scope, level, location, timing, talent availability and the realities of operating a fast-paced services business
• Act as the trusted advisor on the external talent market, bringing insight on candidate expectations, skill availability and emerging hiring trends
• Challenge assumptions constructively and help leaders make confident, informed decisions about the talent the business needs now and next
• Build a clear view of recruitment priorities across the agency and ensure effort is focused where it will have the greatest business impact

• Personally, own and manage a portfolio of active roles across tmp at varying levels and across different disciplines
• Lead the full recruitment lifecycle from intake and role scoping through sourcing, screening, assessment, interview, selection, offer, and references
• Build strong candidate pipelines through proactive sourcing, direct outreach, referrals, networking and inbound applications
• Partner closely with hiring managers throughout each search, providing clear market feedback, maintaining momentum and adapting the approach when needed
• Create a candidate experience that is responsive, human and authentic to tmp at every stage of the process
• Take ownership for the quality and pace of recruitment, identifying blockers early and driving searches forward with clarity and urgency

• Own onboarding as the final phase of the recruitment lifecycle, creating a seamless transition from candidate to employee
• Lead and continually improve tmp’s onboarding framework so every new hire starts with the context, clarity and connection they need to succeed
• Ensure new starters understand how tmp works, how their team contributes and how they can become effective in their new role
• Maintain meaningful touchpoints through the early…