Your new role
This is a newly established role supporting the continued growth of a premium retail organisation. The Talent Acquisition Partner will take ownership of hiring across all retail populations, playing a critical role in shaping future talent through proactive sourcing, strengthened assessment processes, and early career pipeline development.This position suits someone with pace, curiosity, and ambition, who enjoys building things from the ground up and influencing how retail talent is attracted, assessed, and integrated into the business.
Retail Hiring Delivery
- Manage the complete recruitment process for in store and field based retail roles, ranging from entry level client-facing positions through to experienced management appointments.
- Partner closely with hiring leaders to understand capability needs, timelines, and succession gaps.
Proactive Talent Attraction
- Identify and engage high quality retail professionals through direct outreach, networking, and market mapping.
- Build long term candidate communities to support both immediate recruitment and future workforce needs.
Assessment & Selection Design
- Review, evolve, and implement selection methods that assess both capability and behavioural fit within a premium retail environment.
- Lead group assessments and other structured hiring activity to improve quality of hire and consistency.
Early Careers & Education Links
- Establish partnerships with schools, colleges, and universities to create sustainable pipelines for junior and graduate retail talent.
- Represent the organisation at careers events and promote retail pathways as long term, credible careers.
Employer Reputation & Candidate Journey
- Ensure every interaction with candidates reflects a high quality, professional, and inclusive recruitment experience.
- Contribute to attraction initiatives that strengthen employer positioning within the retail talent market.
Workforce Planning & Hiring Readiness
- Maintain visibility of upcoming hiring demand and ensure talent pools are actively refreshed and deployment-ready.
- Reduce dependency on reactive hiring by anticipating talent gaps.
- Onboarding & Transition into Role
- Support the development of structured onboarding activity to improve early engagement and role effectiveness.
- Liaise with internal teams to ensure smooth transitions from offer acceptance through to store integration.
Market Insight
- Monitor competitor activity, salary trends, and shifts in candidate behaviour within the retail sector.
- Share insights with stakeholders to inform hiring strategy and attraction decisions.
What you'll need to succeed
- Solid experience in Talent Acquisition, ideally within Retail
- Demonstrated ability to recruit across multiple role levels simultaneously.
- Experience contributing to or leading assessment-based hiring approaches.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge and influence.
- Naturally proactive, resilient, and commercially minded.
- Genuine interest in developing early talent and sustainable pipelines.
What you'll get in return
- Generous pay & benefits
- Long term development opportunity
What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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