Talent Acquisition Specialist
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Talent Acquisition Specialist
DP World is looking for a talented Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our UK, Ireland & Nordics team. This role sits within our European Talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence and reports to the TA Lead.
If you’re passionate about finding great talent, building strong stakeholder partnerships, and elevating recruitment standards across a global organisation—we’d love to hear from you.
NOTE: This is a hybrid opportunity based in the Midlands with flexibility on your base location, visibility on our sites and travel is an essential part of the role.
How You Will Contribute
- Acting as a trusted advisor to HR, business leaders and hiring managers, building strong relationships and providing expert recruitment guidance.
- Managing full lifecycle recruitment—from briefing and sourcing to interviews, assessments, compliance steps and offer management.
- Designing tailored hiring strategies for each vacancy, ensuring solutions align with business priorities and market conditions.
- Proactively sourcing candidates (active and passive) using social media, talent pools, market mapping, networking, and our ATS.
- Representing DP World at careers events, job fairs and industry networking opportunities.
- Maintaining high-quality data in the ATS, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and effective reporting.
- Managing agency and supplier relationships, negotiating terms and ensuring service excellence.
- Leading a smooth feedback and offer process, working closely with hiring managers to ensure timely candidate communication.
- Championing a great candidate and hiring manager experience, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Providing up-to-date market insights to hiring managers and HR partners to guide workforce decisions.
What You Will Bring
- Strong end‑to‑end recruitment experience in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment. A combination of agency and inhouse experience is desirable.
- Proven capability to manage recruitment from entry level to C‑suite across multiple functions; strong experience within logistics is highly desirable.
- Confidence using ATS platforms, sourcing tools and assessment methods.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to prioritise, deliver at pace, and maintain a high-quality candidate experience.
- Professionalism, integrity, and a collaborative mindset.
- English is essential; proficiency in another European language is desirable.
- Full UK driving licence and own vehicle required for travel between sites.
Compensation
DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organisation. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.
About DP World
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.
With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 103,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.
We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses—Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology—and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
We're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
WE MAKE TRADE FLOW
To Change What's Possible For Everyone
Diversity & Inclusion
DP World is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We strongly believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true, authentic selves. So, please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you.