Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Partner | Agency Recruitment

New York City | Rockefeller Center

If you’re an agency recruiter who loves the selling and candidate side of recruitment, but you’re not sure you want to run a client desk forever, this could be a really interesting next move.

We’re hiring a Talent Acquisition Partner to recruit experienced recruiters into Oliver James USA. This is a commercial, target-driven recruitment role with clear activity expectations, hiring goals and commission attached to delivery.

We’re specifically looking for someone with recent experience working within a recruitment agency who knows how to create opportunities with passive candidates, influence decision making and convert conversations into hires.

You won’t be sifting through applications or working in a traditional HR-style TA role. You’ll be actively building a market, targeting the people we want, creating interest and competing for strong recruiters in exactly the same way you would compete for talent on an agency desk.

In other words, you’re still recruiting. Your candidate just happens to be another recruiter.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll own experienced hiring across key areas of our US business and be accountable for building the pipeline needed to support our growth plans.

You’ll work directly with Directors and senior leaders to understand where they want to grow, what kind of recruiter can make an impact and how we position that opportunity in the market.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Identifying and engaging experienced agency recruiters across the US market
• Mapping competitor businesses and building targeted talent pipelines
• Creating candidate interest rather than relying on inbound applications
• Running first stage interviews and assessing commercial ability, motivation and fit
• Managing candidates from first conversation through to offer and start
• Advising leaders on candidate market, compensation, competitor activity and hiring challenges
• Building referral networks and other routes into hard to reach talent
• Working with Marketing on campaigns that support hiring goals
• Managing your pipeline against clear activity and placement targets

Who we’re looking for

Our ideal profile is someone already working in Talent Acquisition or Rec2Rec within a recruitment agency , with experience hiring experienced recruiters into an agency environment.

You’ll understand that hiring strong recruiters is a commercial exercise. You need to know what good performance looks like, how to qualify someone properly, what makes a recruiter move and how to sell against competing opportunities.

We’re also open to strong 360 agency recruiters who want to move into TA. If you’ve built solid agency experience and are particularly strong on the candidate side, the skills you’ve developed in influencing, qualifying, objection handling and closing can translate extremely well into this role.

A minimum of two years of recent agency recruitment experience is essential .

We’re looking for:

• A strong track record in outbound agency recruitment
• Experience engaging and converting passive candidates
• Strong influencing, qualification and objection handling skills
• Commercial judgement and a good understanding of recruiter performance
• Confidence working to activity, pipeline and hiring targets
• Pace, resilience and personal accountability
• Strong communication and relationship building skills

Why Oliver James?

Oliver James is a global specialist recruitment business operating across Insurance, Asset Management and Banking, with 15 international offices.

Our US business has grown from 35 people in 2020 to more than 160 today , with revenue increasing by more than 350% over the same period. We plan to double the business again over the next two years, so the people we hire into our recruitment teams have a direct impact on how quickly we can grow.

That makes Talent Acquisition a commercial function here, not a support function.

You’ll have clear hiring targets, direct access to the leaders you’re recruiting for and commission linked to the hires you make. You’ll also have a strong proposition to take to market, with successful teams, established specialist desks, clear progression and significant opportunity for the recruiters you’re speaking to.

You’ll also get:

• Commission on every hire you make
• Clear targets and progression
• Direct access to senior leadership
• Leadership coaching and development
• Strong internal support across Talent, Marketing and Operations
• Quarterly lunch clubs, monthly socials and team incentives
• A premium Rockefeller Center office
• The opportunity to build a long term career in TA without losing the commercial side of recruitment

If you’re already recruiting recruiters, or you’re an agency recruiter who wants to move into TA without stepping away from targets, selling and performance, we’d love to hear from you.