Senior Talent Acquisition Executive

Senior Talent Acquisition Executive

ManpowerGroup

Remote

As part of the ManpowerGroup People & Culture Team, you will be responsible for Talent Acquisition and Executive Search to strengthen ManpowerGroup UK's capability to attract, engage and appoint high-impact talent.

The postholder will deliver strategic recruitment and search activity across a wide range of professional and operational disciplines where business priorities demand.

You will combine hands-on recruitment delivery across all levels (junior to director) with a predominantly proactive, market-facing executive search remit, building and nurturing senior talent pipelines for critical and future-focused roles.

Role Summary

To provide senior-level, proactive talent acquisition and executive search expertise, to support recruitment needs across all ManpowerGroup UK brands and sectors when required.

The role acts as a trusted partner to senior leaders, providing deep market insight, strategic hiring advice and exemplary delivery across both active and anticipated hiring needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead executive search activity for senior and specialist appointments, while remaining adaptable to undertake search assignments in other areas as needed.
• Proactively identify, map and engage senior talent aligned to organisational priorities and future capability needs.
• Build, maintain and nurture long-term senior talent pipelines, while developing scalable approaches.
• Develop targeted search strategies using competitor intelligence, market data and discreet engagement methods.
• Represent ManpowerGroup as a credible, professional brand ambassador in the senior talent market and beyond.
• Role model ManpowerGroup's core behaviours.
• Be open to coaching, feedback and continuous development.
• Act as a senior subject matter expert for executive search and senior-level hiring across the TA function.
• Partner with Director-level and senior leaders to understand workforce strategies, leadership needs, and evolving business priorities across all sectors.
• Provide consultative advice on role design, talent availability, remuneration benchmarking and hiring strategy.
• Build trusted advisor relationships through commercial understanding, insight and discretion.
• Deliver clear, data-led hiring insights, including market conditions, risk factors and candidate sentiment.
• Manage full-cycle recruitment across all levels - with the ability to support other business areas when required.
• Evaluate, triage and screen applicants in line with role requirements and assessment criteria.
• Proactively source candidates using direct search, talent mapping and market intelligence.
• Manage candidates and data integrity within our applicant tracking system (ATS).
• Own the advertising and attraction strategy for assigned roles, ensuring strong market positioning.
• Maintain a strong understanding of talent trends while also developing awareness of talent dynamics across all ManpowerGroup sectors.
• Engage with operational teams to enhance commercial insight and improve functional knowledge.
• Contribute to capability-building initiatives and TA improvement projects.

Experience / Skills Required:

Essential

• Proven experience in executive search.
• Strong background in in-house Talent Acquisition or a blended in-house/search environment.
• Demonstrable experience recruiting senior and leadership-level roles.
• Track record of engaging and influencing senior leadership stakeholders.
• Expertise in proactive sourcing, talent mapping and long-term pipeline development.
• Strong commercial and consultative mindset.
• Experience managing full end to end recruitment processes using an ATS.

Desirable

• Experience recruiting Senior Recruiters or senior professional services roles within specialist areas.
• Exposure to complex, matrixed organisations.
• Experience contributing to or leading TA transformation projects.

This role represents a critical step-change in ManpowerGroup UK's senior hiring capability, combining best-in-class executive search with strong, hands-on recruitment delivery.

Our Standards

At ManpowerGroup, we believe that success is built on a foundation of accountability and commitment to our standards at every level. These standards are not just guidelines; they are integral to our culture and are embraced by everyone, from entry-level employees to senior leadership. We all lead ourselves and others-our teams, our clients, and our stakeholders. By living our standards, we create a cohesive and supportive environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

Clarity: Takes time to understand and share our organisation's vision and strategy with others, holds themself and others accountable to deliver on our common goals, mindfully gives honest and regular feedback and openly receives it so we can all learn and deliver our best.

Care: Leads themself and others with care, respecting people as people first and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in their environment so people feel heard and valued, listens to understand and then communicates purposefully and consistently, intentionally develops themself and inspires, coaches and empowers the development of others.

Grow: Openly contributes thoughts, asks questions and challenges appropriately so that we make better, courageous and timely decisions, collaborates with others to identify current ideas, trends and perspectives (internally and externally) to continuously improve and transform what we do, builds on our successes and actively learns from mistakes and missed opportunities to progress toward our ambition.