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Talent Acquisition Business Partner - South & Midlands
Human Resources Recruitment
Company shared salary
NA
Market rate
3,333 GBP–4,583 GBP/mo (39,996 GBP–54,996 GBP/yr)
Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).
Responsibilities
- ● Leading end-to-end recruitment across high-volume operational roles, ensuring an efficient, consistent and well-managed process across multiple sites, with a particular focus on driver recruitment.
- ● Building and maintaining strong talent pipelines to support both immediate hiring demand and longer-term workforce needs.
- ● Using market insight and local knowledge to provide visibility on talent availability, competitor activity and hiring trends, enabling better decision-making and workforce planning.
- ● Partnering closely with HRBPs, Operations, L&D and Training Schools to ensure candidates move efficiently through assessment and onboarding, maintaining pace, quality and compliance.
- ● Coordinating activity across the wider TA team, ensuring delivery is aligned, consistent and focused on achieving strong hiring outcomes across your region.
- ● Developing external partnerships to strengthen local attraction, representing Arriva within the market and supporting community and recruitment activity where needed.
- ● Using data to track performance, monitor key metrics such as pipeline health and conversion, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and outcomes.
- ● Acting as an ambassador for Arriva's employer brand, ensuring a consistent and engaging candidate experience at every touchpoint.
Requirements
- ● Proven experience delivering recruitment in high-volume, operational environments
- ● Strong direct sourcing capability and experience engaging passive talent
- ● Experience leading or supporting volume hiring campaigns and pipeline delivery
- ● Confidence partnering with senior stakeholders and influencing hiring decisions
- ● Experience building talent pipelines and supporting internal mobility
- ● Experience managing or developing others within Talent Acquisition
- ● Strong understanding of local labour markets and attraction strategies
- ● Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
- ● Experience using ATS platforms (e.g. Workday) and recruitment data
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