Talent Acquisition Advisor - FTC

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Medialab is the UK's leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We're a media agency that's made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.

Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is recognised and rewarded. There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. As well as this, we're Campaign's Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and Media Week's Independent Agency of the Year 2025.

We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency, and All In Champions, with industry-leading work recognised by double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites and a 2025 Effie for our work with Alzheimer's Society.

Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, Sun Life, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer's Society, RNLI and Clearscore.

• Commit to Doing the Right Thing (Act with integrity and accountability)
• Help People Flourish (Invest in people)
• Dig Deeper to Understand Better (Data driven curiosity)

Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.

On top of that, we offer extra benefits, which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:

• Time to Unwind
  - We offer generous holiday entitlement that increases with long service, plus Christmas closure and a birthday day off. Alongside this, we offer flexible benefits including a holiday buy scheme, flexi-hours, a work abroad scheme, cultural bank holiday swaps, and Friday Summer hours.
• Hybrid Working
  - Balance between home and office (3 days in office). We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements from the commencement of employment.
• Career Growth - A meritocratic approach to progression with quarterly reviews, CPD Platinum accredited training, mentoring and leadership support.
• Health & Wellbeing
  - Private medical insurance, health cash plan, gym discounts, wellbeing apps Mental Health First Aiders and unlimited free professional counselling.
• Supporting Families
  - Enhanced parental leave, flexible working and life assurance.
• Giving Back
  - Paid charity days and sustainability initiatives.
• Perks & Rewards
  - Retail discounts, long-service trips and an unforgettable team culture.

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will play a key role in supporting Medialab's recruitment efforts. You'll work closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition and Inclusion, hiring managers, and the wider People team to deliver a smooth, inclusive, and engaging candidate experience. This is a hands-on role where you'll manage day-to-day recruitment activities, a high volume of roles, help attract diverse talent, and provide advice and guidance to hiring managers.

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for a variety of roles, ensuring a positive and efficient candidate experience.
• Partner with hiring managers to take role briefs and provide advice on job descriptions, adverts, and sourcing strategies.
• Manage candidate movement in our ATS by screening applicants, tracking progress, and keeping all our recruitment data clean and up to date.
• Keep track of key recruitment metrics like time-to-hire, candidate conversion, and channel performance, to continuously tweak sourcing approaches.
• Embed competency-based interview frameworks and fair assessment tools to remove bias and elevate hiring standards.
• Spot opportunities to refine the recruitment journey, whether that's updating email templates, tweaking interview tasks, or testing new sourcing tools.
• Work with the People & Talent Acquisition Administrator to coordinate recruitment administration, including interview scheduling and feedback collection.

• Proactively search for candidates using Linked In Recruiter, job boards, and other channels.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of talent for recurring and hard-to-fill roles.
• Develop relationships with passive candidates, keeping them engaged for…