Talent Partner (6-month FTC)

At UNiDAYS, we’re on a mission to empower and inspire the next generation of students and graduates worldwide. As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our teams by attracting, engaging, and hiring exceptional talent who share our passion for innovation, inclusivity, and impact. You’ll partner closely with leaders across the business to deliver a seamless and values driven recruitment experience; helping UNiDAYS continue to be a vibrant, high-performing, and people-first organisation.

Requirements

• You’ve successfully operated as a Talent Acquisition Partner, developing strong, collaborative relationships with business leaders to deliver impactful hiring outcomes
• You combine determination, enthusiasm, and proven expertise to create world-class recruitment solutions that elevate both candidate and business outcomes.
• You are committed to delivering exceptional candidate management.
• You believe that diversity and inclusion make a work environment better and bring that into your recruiting approach. 
• Confident analysing recruitment data and market insights to identify trends, improve hiring outcomes and influence recruitment strategy.
• Monitor and report on recruitment metrics including source effectiveness, time to hire, pipeline conversion, diversity, candidate experience and agency usage, using insights to recommend improvements.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and improve recruitment processes, delivering measurable improvements to efficiency, candidate experience and hiring manager satisfaction.
• Proven ability to deliver impactful recruitment strategies — from showcasing our brand in the talent market and creating compelling job ads, to managing candidates and interviews seamlessly throughout the hiring journey.
• You are not only able to work under pressure but thrive in high growth environments.
• You are able to deal with ambiguity whilst adhering to process
• Sound working knowledge of employment law as it relates to recruitment and assessment
• Demonstrable experience of proactively sourcing high-quality talent using LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, Boolean search, networking and other direct sourcing techniques, reducing reliance on agencies.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies for difficult-to-fill and business-critical roles, building relationships with passive talent before vacancies arise.
• Experience using ATS (HiBob ideally), Lattice and other systems would be a plus. 
• Experience of using LinkedIn Recruiter or equivalent sourcing tools to identify and engage passive candidates.
• Experience analysing recruitment data to inform hiring decisions and improve recruitment performance.
• Experience partnering with hiring managers to challenge hiring approaches and influence recruitment decisions.
• Experience reducing agency reliance through effective direct sourcing strategies.

Responsibilities

• You will have full ownership of a portfolio of roles and partner with business leaders and hiring managers across a varied range of departments including Product, Data and Engineering.
• You will manage anywhere between 5 - 10 live vacancies at any one time. 
• Managing the end to end recruitment process from attraction through to onboarding, working closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager,  the wider People and IT teams. 
• Design and execute targeted sourcing strategies using a range of direct sourcing techniques, social platforms, talent communities and market mapping to attract high-quality talent.
• Work with the Talent Acquisition Manager in the development and deployment of the 
• Employer Brand and Employee Value proposition (EVP) to ensure the business attracts the best talent and is seen as best in sector
• Working within the wider People team, you will collaborate with your colleagues to deliver various initiatives in relation to Onboarding and recruitment
• Obtain regular candidate and stakeholder feedback, to identify continuous improvement and development of the partnership with stakeholders
• To provide relevant and current external market advice and insight where needed to help influence the hiring strategy. 
• Act as a trusted adviser to hiring managers by providing insight into talent availability, competitor activity, salary benchmarking, market trends and realistic hiring strategies.
• Develop and maintain talent pipelines for key skill areas, ensuring future hiring needs can be met through proactive engagement.
• In exceptional cases where need arises, you will need to manage 3rd party agencies
• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of advertising channels, sourcing methods and recruitment campaigns, recommending improvements to maximise quality of hire and return on investment.
• Test and implement new attraction channels and recruitment technologies to improve candidate reach and hiring outcomes.
• Take ownership of improving recruitment effectiveness by regularly reviewing hiring activity, advertising performance, sourcing channels and recruitment processes, making recommendations that improve quality of hire, speed, cost and candidate experience.

Benefits

This is your opportunity to Join the world’s largest student verification network and help shape the future of how brands connect with the next generation. We engage a community of 23M+ verified students and graduates across 115 markets, making us a truly global platform. Our brand is a powerhouse in the UK, and we’re rapidly accelerating our presence worldwide—especially in the US, Germany, India, France, Canada, and Australia.

We partner with 850+ of the world’s biggest brands, bringing their products and services to the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s professionals—driving engagement, building affinity, and delivering real results.

We offer a fast-paced, fun, and social working environment where you can truly make an impact. We believe work should enhance and complement your life, which is why we provide a flexible hybrid working model. While there are expectations to attend the London campus periodically, you and your manager will determine the most appropriate balance together, ensuring both your needs and the needs of the business are met.

We work hard at UNiDAYS, and we believe in fair compensation for that hard work. That’s why we’re proud to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package.

Our perks include:

• 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus bank holidays
• Competitive salaries
• 4pm finishes every Friday
• Company pension scheme
• Private health insurance (BUPA)
• Dental Insurance (BUPA)
• Income protection policy
• Life assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Regular team building activities
• £150 pounds towards your home office set up

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.