Relationship Manager - Talent Acquisition

Are you Robert Walters?

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential.

We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.

Function:

Our people in Human Resources (HR) touch every part of our business. They shape the way we work. They find and recruit the brightest talent. They develop their skills through structured, on-going training. They give every single member of our staff the chance to achieve their career goals and make work exceptionally rewarding.

As the Executive Recruiter & Relationship Manager for Technology, you will lead the UK Technology Talent Acquisition (TA) team, setting the recruitment strategy and acting as a strategic Recruiting Partner and Relationship Manager to senior Technology leaders, CIOs, CTOs, Engineering Leads, Technology COOs and HR Business Partners.

You will drive and partner with business leaders to attract, assess, and hire top talent through proactive sourcing, market insight, robust candidate assessment, and exceptional stakeholder management, while ensuring a compliant, data-driven, and high-quality solution orientation approach.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the UKI Technology Recruitment team, managing workforce planning, hiring forecasts and recruitment strategies to support Technology business priorities across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, cloud and digital transformation functions
• Work in partnership with the RPO’s divisional/operational Team Leader to oversee recruiter and sourcer capacity, performance, goal setting, accountability and delivery excellence
• Act as a senior TA partner to Technology leaders, HR Business Partners, COOs and Reward, influencing hiring decisions and workforce strategies
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, organisational structures and succession considerations, ensuring alignment with long-term technology and business objectives
• Own the end-to-end delivery of senior lateral hiring and executive search mandates across Technology, including talent identification, market mapping, candidate assessment, interview strategy, offer negotiation and stakeholder management
• Build strong internal & external networks across the technology sector to identify and engage passive internal/external candidates, through executive search methodologies, industry relationships and targeted talent attraction activities
• Establish, monitor and report on recruitment metrics, pipeline, market trends and hiring effectiveness, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement
• Conduct comprehensive assessments to evaluate leadership capability, technical expertise, strategic thinking and cultural alignment. Advise hiring managers on structured interview approaches and assessment methodologies
• Ensure a high controls standard and adherence to policies, data privacy and regulatory requirements
• Where required manage relationships with external search firms and talent intelligence providers, including supplier governance, performance reviews, market mapping exercises and organisational benchmarking
• Support broader Talent Acquisition initiatives, including employer branding, diversity recruitment strategies, technology hiring transformation and recruitment process optimization.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the UKI Technology Recruitment team, managing workforce planning, hiring forecasts and recruitment strategies to support Technology business priorities across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, cloud and digital transformation functions
• Work in partnership with the RPO’s divisional/operational Team Leader to oversee recruiter and sourcer capacity, performance, goal setting, accountability and delivery excellence
• Act as a senior TA partner to Technology leaders, HR Business Partners, COOs and Reward, influencing hiring decisions and workforce strategies
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, organisational structures and succession considerations, ensuring alignment with long-term technology and business objectives
• Own the end-to-end delivery of senior lateral hiring and executive search mandates across Technology, including talent identification, market mapping, candidate assessment, interview strategy, offer negotiation and stakeholder management
• Build strong internal & external networks across the technology sector to identify and engage passive internal/external candidates, through executive search methodologies, industry relationships and targeted talent attraction activities
• Establish, monitor and report on recruitment metrics, pipeline, market trends and hiring effectiveness, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement
• Conduct comprehensive assessments to evaluate leadership capability, technical expertise, strategic thinking and cultural alignment. Advise hiring managers on structured interview approaches and assessment methodologies
• Ensure a high controls standard and adherence to policies, data privacy and regulatory requirements
• Where required manage relationships with external search firms and talent intelligence providers, including supplier governance, performance reviews, market mapping exercises and organisational benchmarking
• Support broader Talent Acquisition initiatives, including employer branding, diversity recruitment strategies, technology hiring transformation and recruitment process optimization.

Benefits:

• A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
• A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
• Private medical insurance
• A fantastic training and development programme
• Volunteer time off
• The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
• Employee wellbeing through various programmes
• You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP

As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.

This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

Robert Walters - Global Talent Solutions

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