Talent Acquisition Partner

Talent Acquisition Partner

Location: Belfast (Hybrid working – 60% of time based on site)

Contract: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

Closing date for applications: 15th August 2025

Are you passionate about connecting talent with exciting career opportunities, offering an excellent candidate experience? Do you thrive in a data and performance driven environment, delivering effective hiring strategies and solutions for customers? If so, we want to hear from you!

The role:

We are looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Partner to join our global community of professionals dedicated to attracting, assessing and hiring top talent for Thales UK. We are a diverse and cutting-edge technology company, employing over 7,000 people in the UK and 80,000 worldwide, delivering services and solutions to our key customers across the world in key markets Defence, Aerospace, Cyber Security, and Space.

As Talent Acquisition Partner, you will be responsible for end to end internal and external hiring processes, working as part of an international team delivering across all job disciplines and skill sets within Thales UK.

You will play a key role in attracting and hiring top talent; collaborating closely with hiring managers, develop recruitment strategies and ensure a great and effective candidate experience. The team play an instrumental role to both the UK business but also our wider Global Talent Acquisition community, leading the way on key initiatives and future innovation. We work in a performance and data driven environment, using Power BI data analytics, to understand and track performance against KPIs. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in talent acquisition, attraction tools and strategies, system optimisation, data and marketing.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Partnering with hiring managers to understand resourcing needs and develop effective recruitment strategies
• Manage and be accountable for the full recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, screening, interviewing and onboarding candidates
• Full immersion in the Candidate Relationship Management tool, maximising the functionality to generate candidates and reduce time in process
• Utilise various sourcing techniques such as the CRM database, Linkedin, employee referrals and job boards
• Build and maintain a talent pipeline for critical, core roles and future hiring needs
• Conduct initial candidate screening for shortlist
• Coordinate interview processes, provide feedback and ensure a positive candidate experience
• Effective partnership with hiring managers, using data and market intelligence to influence and negotiate on hiring decisions
• Be accountable for performance, in check on recruitment metrics to improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness

Skills, experience & behaviours:

• Recruitment expertise – knowledge and experience of full-cycle recruitment and sourcing techniques. It would be advantageous if you have experience in recruiting Engineering skillsets within Defence, Aerospace or Cyber security.
• Strong sourcing skills, including capability using ATS/CRM platforms and Linkedin Recruiter
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with candidates and hiring managers
• Accountable for performance, leveraging recruitment metrics to optimising processes and hiring efficiencies
• Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities and requirements across a diverse stakeholder group
• Problem solver and adaptable; able to quickly adjust to shifting business priorities
• Forward thinking, able to hold discussions to plan and prepare for the future.

This role will require SC Clearance to start. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.