Direct Recruiter - Tech (6-month FTC)
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.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Direct Recruiter to join our team onsite with our client, global Investment Management company, with a focus on managing full lifecycle recruiting projects, with an emphasis on creative sourcing of top talent for a variety of positions across our Technology teams. Within this role the individual will partner with senior managers to provide recruitment support throughout the entire hiring process.
The Direct Recruiter will be responsible for recruiting qualified individuals to fill a variety of Technology openings across the US and EMEA.
Key Responsibilities:
- Full-life cycle recruiting for a range of roles and career levels across Technology
- Advise senior stakeholders on the Talent Acquisition process including but not limited to market intelligence, sourcing strategies, search execution, answering candidate’s questions, and offer negotiation.
- Identify and implement creative, impactful and cost-effective sourcing strategies to identify top talent
- Source, screen and assess candidates for open positions at all levels within Business Management against open requisitions as well as opportunistically.
- Drive recruiting activities at various levels; develop and maintain strong relationships with prospective candidates as well as business unit leaders and respective HR colleagues.
- Develop and execute search strategy and workflow in collaboration with senior management for all open positions including direct sourcing and search firm engagement
- Partner with the Compensation team, HR Business Partner, and hiring teams to formulate and deliver offers.
- Provide direction and partner with Recruiting Associate regarding job postings, interview scheduling, interview feedback collection, onboarding activities, etc.
- Actively partner with the campus recruiting and EMEA talent acquisition teams to share best practices and provide a seamless service to internal clients.
- Maintain the accuracy, quality and integrity of all information in client’s applicant tracking system
- Share best practices and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
Qualifications
- Must be client centric, highly collaborative, and possess a team-first attitude
- 5+ years of hands-on recruiting experience within a corporate firm (bank or asset manager) and/or progressive search firm, including sourcing and full-life cycle covering Technology
- Demonstrated track record with creative sourcing methods via networking, organizations, internet, referrals, investment data providers, and direct recruiting
- Experience cross regionally is a bonus particularly EMEA and US hiring
- Proven ability to provide outstanding customer services to the candidates as well as client base; serve as an ambassador, representing our client in the candidate market
- Strong credibility and presence, and the ability to influence hiring managers across a variety of personalities
- Strong interviewing/assessment skills and ability to influence and close candidates in highly competitive situations
- Highly motivated, self-starter with strong organizational skills; strong prioritization skills with proven track record of adapting to quickly changing business needs
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication and relationship-building skills required
- Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems, Internet recruiting (e.g., LinkedIn), and MS Office Suite: Word, Outlook, and Excel
- Additional European languages are of interest but not essential
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.
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About the job
Contract Type: Temporary Interim Management
Specialism: Human Resources
Focus: Recruitment
Industry: Financial Services
Salary: Competitive Package
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Associate
Language: English - Professional working
Location: London
CONTRACTORJob Reference: 8077
Date posted: 27 March 2026
Consultant: Nic Farmer
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