Talent Acquisition Business Partner - South & Midlands

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 Thurmaston Bus Depot Hybrid 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