Digitas Hiring for Senior Talent Acquisition Partner Job at London, England Full Time

We are Digitas, a full service digital agency.

Home of 400 diverse people united in the mission to use the power of strategy, data, technology, media and creativity to get our clients future ready.

We get our clients future ready through our Experience Consulting, Products & Platforms, Customer Engagement and Digital Media capabilities. Underpinned by a culture of experimentation, making things happen and driving results.

Part of Publicis Groupe, and a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies, we’re proud to work with some of the world’s leading brands.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for setting the Talent Acquisition strategy for Digitas and for delivering against current and future recruitment needs. You will embed a culture of proactive direct hiring and provide a best in class candidate experience. You will partner with your stakeholders to align the TA strategy to the business strategy, and support the agency to gain access to the best talent through forward-thinking candidate attraction and employer branding strategies.

Specifically, you will:

• Drive, and build upon, the Inclusive Hiring Strategy for Publicis Groupe and Digitas to ensure Inclusion sits at the forefront of our hiring efforts
• Be accountable for end to end recruitment for roles across the agency, at all levels
• Become an agency ambassador, developing strong internal relationships, and being able to confidently talk about our work, agency and culture to candidates
• Partner with leadership, HR and PGUK TA to set the Talent Acquisition strategy
• Deliver recruitment and interview training, and bespoke training to suit the needs of Digitas
• Build a robust talent pipeline process for your agency using our ATS, and ensure this is kept up to date, and added to via research, mapping and partnering with your stakeholders to identify and uncover new talent
• Manage and support junior members of the team in their work and development, and coach them to be the best they can be
• Cultivate a data driven approach to what we do, using this to help influence hiring decisions
• Suggest ways to best improve the hiring process, our employer brand and our candidate experience, based on your market knowledge and expertise, and work with your team to lead projects which update and change to ways of working

What Skills We’re After:

Recruiting

• Create and implement recruitment, and sourcing strategies, in response to market conditions and other hiring challenges, to ensure we have access to the best talent
• Demonstrate the ability to foresee and effectively solve problems through the hiring process
• Hold a detailed knowledge of open and pending vacancies, and use data to inform the agency’s decision making throughout the hiring process
• Continuously review hiring processes, and update in-line with requirements
• Build up a comprehensive knowledge of where the best talent in market could be found, through competitor research, market analysis and participating in relevant networking events

Stakeholder Management

• Build excellent stakeholder management skills, and be a trusted partner to leadership, as well as building relationships across the wider TA team, cross-agency and with our third party vendors
• Be collaborative and flexible in your approach, adapting your approach and communication to meet the needs of your audience
• Ensure all your communications/interactions are clear, concise and action orientated. Keep stakeholders up to date of activity, and notifying of upcoming challenges with prepared solutions
• Develop relationships with key point people in all departments and within your team, and have an awareness of their individual needs
• Act as main point of contact for all recruitment queries, internally and externally, using your knowledge and experience to ease the recruitment process for candidates and stakeholders

Culture

• Bring all of you to work, your passions, your hobbies, creative pursuits and side hustles
• Have an infectious can-do attitude, which makes people want to come to you as they know you approach all tasks with a positive attitude
• Demonstrate a passion for people, and always look to improve our candidate, team and stakeholder relationships
• Build a culture of learning, by proactively sharing your knowledge and expertise in order to help develop others in the team
• Actively initiate collaborative ways of working with the team, and encourage team members to work together to solve challenges in a positive environment

Commercial

• Demonstrate an expert knowledge of the market, and partner with leadership, Talent and Finance to share data and make recommendations that have a financial impact on the business
• Own contract negotiation with third party vendors, ensuring they are financially beneficial to us
• Focus on reducing recruitment agency spend, identifying where we need third party support and have an understanding of how this will impact the agency
• Share key data with your agency, plus solutions for how to improve our metrics
• Demonstrate an understanding of your agency’s commercial landscape

Additional Information

Please note that Digitas is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.