Senior Talent Partner – Corporate Development and Strategy

About the role

You'll be partnering with one of our global enterprise clients, supporting the hiring of senior Corporate Development and Strategy talent across North America. This is a specialist hiring project focused on senior-level appointments, from Senior Manager through to Vice President. You'll be recruiting exceptional professionals with backgrounds in Corporate Development, Strategy Consulting, M&A and Strategic Finance, working alongside a highly accomplished leadership team. The hiring volume is intentionally low – around 10 hires per year – but every search is business-critical.

Success in this role comes from your ability to deliver quality over quantity, build credibility with demanding stakeholders and proactively identify exceptional talent in highly competitive markets. Your expertise, professionalism, resilience and willingness to go the extra mile will be what makes you successful in this role.

Typical activities all hang off your main goals of finding exceptional talent whilst delivering a rock star client experience and an equally outstanding candidate experience – enhancing the brand of both our client and Join Talent.

Responsibilities

• Creating and gaining buy-in for hiring strategies across complex executive and senior leadership searches
• Building trusted relationships with senior Hiring Managers, HR and business leaders, becoming a genuine talent advisor rather than simply filling vacancies
• Partnering with demanding, high-performing stakeholders and confidently managing expectations throughout the hiring process
• Conducting deep market mapping and proactive executive search across Corporate Development, Strategy, M&A and related functions
• Directly sourcing and headhunting senior candidates through a variety of channels
• Screening and assessing candidates against both technical capability and organisational fit
• Presenting high-quality shortlists supported by market insight and hiring recommendations
• Managing the end-to-end candidate journey, ensuring an exceptional experience throughout
• Providing market intelligence, competitor insights and talent mapping to support business decisions
• Maintaining accurate data within ATS and client recruitment systems

Requirements

• Significant experience recruiting Corporate Development, Strategy, M&A or Executive Finance professionals
• Proven success delivering senior-level searches from Senior Manager through to VP and Executive level
• Experience partnering with senior business leaders and managing challenging stakeholder relationships
• Strong executive search and proactive sourcing capability
• Global talent acquisition experience, particularly across North America, would be highly advantageous
• Experience utilising ATS platforms and recruitment technology
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to provide market insights
• Complying with Join Talent's values and ethical standards in every client interaction
• Maintaining a positive attitude that contributes to both client success and team culture

Skills & Experience

• Executive Search, RPO or in-house Talent Acquisition experience recruiting senior corporate functions
• Demonstrable success delivering complex, niche searches with low hiring volumes and high expectations
• Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong capability in market mapping, talent intelligence and executive sourcing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Commercially minded with exceptional attention to detail
• Self-motivated and comfortable working autonomously in a remote environment
• Resilient, adaptable and solution-focused
• Team player – there's little room in a growing business for lone wolves, and collaborating with colleagues and clients is key to our success

About Us

Join Talent is EMEA's fastest growing embedded talent business (boutique RPO or recruitment insourcing solution). Number 1 on the Sunday Times 100 list in 2023, in the top 20 in the FT1000 European list in 2023 & 2024, we are a scale-up at pace breaking the mould.

Our ethos is simple: we hire amazingly talented recruiters and recruitment leaders, support them well, and provide them with a fantastic set of tools to create hiring success. We work with growing businesses to provide the technology, manpower, and expertise required to hire, onboard, and manage the talent they need to meet their growth plans. Our model offers flexibility and pace for rapid deployment of hiring scale-up solutions.

Established in early 2019, Join Talent supports some of the world's most exciting brands, including Amazon, OnBuy, Mambu, Zego, Booking.com, Celonis, and Frontiers. We have over 200 team members across 19 countries and continue to grow.

Location: United States or United Kingdom | Remote
Contract: 6 month - Fixed Term Contract