US Talent Lead

Recruitment Delivery

You’ll oversee end-to-end US hiring, managing a world-class candidate experience and being hands-on in all aspects of delivery. You’ll work with the US COO, Global Head of Talent, and People team to ensure alignment on recruitment priorities for the US team. You’ll manage and collaborate with the US Talent Acquisition Manager to best divide and conquer live briefs and drive long-term improvements to our approach to the US talent market. You’ll lead the practical execution of recruitment activity for the roles you’re owning, such as candidate liaison, calendar management, and running introductory calls. You’ll oversee and deliver sourcing strategy from advertising to outreach and managing recruiter agency relationships. You’ll ensure deliberate attention is paid to diversifying our candidate pipeline.

Pipeline Development

You’ll take the long-term view to building a sustainable pipeline of brilliant communications and policy talent in the US. You’ll develop a deep understanding of Milltown's work and talent strategy, build and maintain an active network of candidates, market contacts, and peers across the US communications and policy advisory landscape, and use market intelligence to inform sourcing strategy. You’ll contribute insights on compensation, talent availability, and competitor activity internally to the Global People & Talent function.

Internal Collaboration

You’ll build and maintain trusted relationships with leaders across the US business as well as the wider People & Talent team. You’ll ensure consistent, high-quality and advisory-led communications with US leaders about recruitment activity. You’ll escalate risks, delays, or misalignments to relevant leadership early and with a proposed solution. You’ll act as a close collaborator to the Head of Talent to continuously spot opportunities for improvement, refinement, and creativity across recruitment activity. You’ll collaborate with the wider People & Talent team to ensure seamless integration between recruitment activity and company DEI efforts, marketing activity, and employee experience.

Insights and Tools

You’ll underpin all your work with an insight-led approach, drawing on both evidence and experience. You’ll use data and insight to drive continuous improvement in hiring quality, tracking pipeline conversion, assessing the quality of assessments at each stage, and identifying patterns that can inform better decisions. You’ll use AI tools and efficient workflows to improve the quality and efficiency of the Talent teams’ delivery. You’ll contribute to the development of our Talent toolkit: team materials and templates. You’ll maintain clean and accurate records in Lever (or any future ATS platform) at all times and coach interviewers to use the tool effectively. You’ll contribute to collegiate development. You’ll manage the US Talent Acquisition Manager’s day-to-day work; acting as their first port of call for questions, feedback, and collaboration. You’ll act as the US Talent Acquisition Manager’s Development Coach; providing developmental support, identifying stretch opportunities, and providing clear performance feedback. You’ll spot opportunities to contribute and collaborate with the wider People & Talent team, sharing in the responsibility to hold yourself and others to high standards as well as fostering a culture where exceptional advice, continuous learning, and collaboration are the norm.