Senior Talent Partner – Corporate Development and Strategy

Job Description

United States or United Kingdom | Remote

6 month - Fixed Term Contract

What will I be doing?

You'll be partnering with one of our global enterprise clients, supporting the hiring of senior Corporate Development and Strategy talent across North America.

This is a specialist hiring project focused on senior-level appointments, from Senior Manager through to Vice President. You'll be recruiting exceptional professionals with backgrounds in Corporate Development, Strategy Consulting, M&A and Strategic Finance, working alongside a highly accomplished leadership team.

The hiring volume is intentionally low – around 10 hires per year – but every search is business-critical. Success in this role comes from your ability to deliver quality over quantity, build credibility with demanding stakeholders and proactively identify exceptional talent in highly competitive markets.

Your expertise, professionalism, resilience and willingness to go the extra mile will be what makes you successful in this role.

Typical activities all hang off your main goals of finding exceptional talent whilst delivering a rock star client experience and an equally outstanding candidate experience – enhancing the brand of both our client and Join Talent.

Typical activities include:

• Creating and gaining buy-in for hiring strategies across complex executive and senior leadership searches
• Building trusted relationships with senior Hiring Managers, HR and business leaders, becoming a genuine talent advisor rather than simply filling vacancies
• Partnering with demanding, high-performing stakeholders and confidently managing expectations throughout the hiring process
• Conducting deep market mapping and proactive executive search across Corporate Development, Strategy, M&A and related functions
• Directly sourcing and headhunting senior candidates through a variety of channels
• Screening and assessing candidates against both technical capability and organisational fit
• Presenting high-quality shortlists supported by market insight and hiring recommendations
• Managing the end-to-end candidate journey, ensuring an exceptional experience throughout
• Providing market intelligence, competitor insights and talent mapping to support business decisions
• Maintaining accurate data within ATS and client recruitment systems

Role Requirements

• Significant experience recruiting Corporate Development, Strategy, M&A or Executive Finance professionals
• Proven success delivering senior-level searches from Senior Manager through to VP and Executive level
• Experience partnering with senior business leaders and managing challenging stakeholder relationships
• Strong executive search and proactive sourcing capability
• Global talent acquisition experience, particularly across North America, would be highly advantageous
• Experience utilising ATS platforms and recruitment technology
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to provide market insights
• Complying with Join Talent's values and ethical standards in every client interaction
• Maintaining a positive attitude that contributes to both client success and team culture

Skills & Experience

• Executive Search, RPO or in-house Talent Acquisition experience recruiting senior corporate functions
• Demonstrable success delivering complex, niche searches with low hiring volumes and high expectations
• Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong capability in market mapping, talent intelligence and executive sourcing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Commercially minded with exceptional attention to detail
• Self-motivated and comfortable working autonomously in a remote environment
• Resilient, adaptable and solution-focused
• Team player – there's little room in a growing business for lone wolves, and collaborating with colleagues and clients is key to our success

A bit about us…

Join Talent is a great place to be. We are EMEA's fastest growing Recruitment insourcing business (boutique RPO or embedded talent solution - we are not precious about the term!). Whatever you call it, it is in-house at pace!

Our ethos is scarily simple - we hire amazingly talented recruiters and recruitment leaders, support them really well, and provide them with a fantastic set of tools to create hiring success.

Companies often talk about how they put people first, we mean it to the bottom of our souls - and if you want to use your TA prowess to check that out just message anyone from our team of over 200 recruiters and ask them for their views on how well we do at putting our team first and creating a great culture.

We provide growing businesses with the technology, manpower and expertise required to enable them to hire, onboard and manage the talent they need to meet their growth plans. Our model provides flexibility and pace for rapid deployment of hiring scale-up solutions.

Established in early 2019 Join Talent is in many respects the ‘new kid on the block’ in the market, but we support some of the world's most exciting brands, and have over 200 team members across 19 countries today .... and still growing!

We work in an industry agnostic manner, and this is reflected in the diversity of our clients who include companies as diverse as Amazon, OnBuy, Mambu, Zego, Booking.com, Celonis and Frontiers.