Talent Acquisition Manager (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract)

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of Talent Acquisition within a growing, ambitious business where hiring is viewed as a key driver of success.

Reporting to our Chief People Officer, you'll lead Gravita's day-to-day recruitment activity, manage our Talent Acquisition Specialist, and partner with leaders across the business to deliver hiring plans across multiple service lines.

Alongside managing current hiring needs, you'll play a critical role in shaping our future talent strategy. A significant focus of the role will be building and maintaining pipelines for future Director and Partner hires, ensuring we're identifying and engaging exceptional talent long before vacancies arise.

We're looking for someone with a strong track record in executive search, leadership hiring, or senior professional services recruitment, who is equally comfortable operating strategically and rolling up their sleeves to deliver.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day Talent Acquisition function.

• Line manage and develop our Talent Acquisition Specialist.

• Drive a high-performance, candidate-focused recruitment experience.

• Continuously improve recruitment processes, tools and ways of working.

• Work closely with the wider People team to support business growth.

• Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and define effective recruitment strategies.

• Manage end-to-end recruitment processes across a broad range of roles and service lines.

• Support stakeholders through briefing, attraction, selection and offer stages.

• Ensure a consistently excellent candidate experience.

• Create and maintain talent pipelines for future Director and Partner-level hiring.

• Conduct talent mapping and market research across relevant sectors.

• Build relationships with high-calibre individuals before opportunities arise.

• Provide insight on competitor hiring activity and talent market trends.

• Support long-term workforce planning through proactive talent engagement.

• Oversee Gravita's graduate and early careers recruitment activity.

• Support attraction initiatives, assessment activities and selection processes.

• Help ensure a positive experience for future talent joining the business.

• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders.

• Influence hiring decisions through data, insight and market knowledge.

• Provide regular updates on recruitment activity and hiring progress.

• Challenge constructively where needed to improve outcome
  

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience:

You'll be an experienced recruitment professional who enjoys balancing strategic talent work with hands-on delivery.

You'll likely come from an executive search, leadership hiring, professional services or high-growth environment and have experience influencing senior stakeholders.

• Significant experience in recruitment, executive search or talent acquisition.

• A track record of hiring senior and specialist talent.

• Experience managing or mentoring recruitment team members.

• Strong sourcing, talent mapping and market research skills.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

• A proactive approach and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• A passion for delivering outstanding candidate experiences

Your Career with Gravita

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

The Nitty Gritty

• Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis

• Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday

• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.

• Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.

• It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).