Lead Talent Partner

by | Jul 1, 2026

Lead Talent Partner

The Lead Talent Partner is the primary in-house recruiter and trusted talent advisor for Talento's UK market, owning full-cycle recruitment while partnering with hiring managers to define, prioritize, and fill roles. The Lead Talent Partner combines hands-on talent acquisition with employer branding, recruitment data and analytics, and broader HR generalist support. This includes managing the candidate experience, onboarding, and day-to-day UK office operations. The role is focused on attracting, hiring, and retaining great people in line with the company’s growth and culture.

Our Vision & Mission

  • Through R2 Global powered by Talento’s unique bundling of solutions, establish our best practice standards as the go to service model within the $500 billion staffing and recruiting industry.

  • Transform hiring managers expectations of recruiting partners, one customer at a time.

  • Earn the partnership of HR teams to seamlessly extend their capabilities through R2 Global powered by Talento’s customer experience model.

  • Elevate the mindset of recruiting in an organization from transactional to strategic.

  • Raise the caliber of human capital in the markets and communities we serve through the businesses and people we touch.

 
What guides us?

  • Lead our customers and communities to create modern workplaces & cultures that harness the strength of diversity and talent

  • Integrate talent & organizational solutions to reduce complexity and increase efficiency for our customers

  • Discover the right human capital solutions that enhances the performance of our customers’ businesses

  • Optimize the things our customers excel at as we obsess over how to continuously capitalize on the human side of business

 
Why would R2 Global powered by Talento make sense for me?
We can enhance your skills as a human capital advisor who’s obsessed with our customer’s businesses success. Whether you are with a regional search firm or work in a large national staffing agency, do you feel you are capable of more? R2 Global powered by Talento equips its associates with the mindset and tools to make a meaningful impact through its suite of talent and organizational solutions, one customer at a time. Imagine having the tool belt of an organizational engineer to support your customers strategic and tactical human capital needs. R2 Global powered by Talento’s world class business professionals develop, manage, and deliver solutions that help businesses continue to scale and provide quality experiences time and time again.

Who is R2 Global powered by Talento?
At R2 Global powered by Talento, we are customer-obsessed advisors with trust-based customer relationships throughout high growth, middle market and enterprise companies. Our exceptional team of recruiting advisors coupled with valuable consulting resources enable us to respond swiftly. Whether a business is merging, growing, divesting or retooling their approach, a trusted advisor who can integrate free-of-charge consulting resources is what our customers have grown to rely on. This bundling of services separates us from the mass market with a unique competitive advantage and value-add. We are proud geeks for all things people!

What’s in it for you?
Do you have a strong desire to learn and grow, both financially and professionally? Are you a value-driven professional with an interest in joining an elite team that is redefining the recruitment experience through innovative processes and a refreshing approach? Do you enjoy working side by side with the most talented team in the industry?  Do you see yourself advising leaders on a wide range of people topics? At R2 Global powered by Talento, our team embodies our values: advancement, dependability, responsibility, teamwork, and meritocracy. Our DNA is rooted in a culture that creates space for development, learning and growth while consistently exceeding customer experience standards. Become part of our team and reimagine your future as a pivotal resource to organizational success.

What makes R2 Global powered by Talento different in the recruiting solutions & human capital marketplace?
At R2 Global powered by Talento, you will have the opportunity to deliver a consultative hiring experience while learning and absorbing new business models, functions, industries and geographies. The quality of our proven methodology incorporates best practices and a high level of standards in research, outreach, screening, interview and calibration processes. In addition to strengthening your skillset, you will be exposed to leadership in some of the country’s most innovative companies. Business orientation separates R2 Global powered by Talento from the mass market. Whether partnering with a global Fortune 500 with 70k employees or a high growth e-commerce company with 200 employees, R2 Global powered by Talento tailors its solutions to fit. We strongly believe that customization is pivotal to customer success.

What you would be responsible for
Full-Cycle Recruitment

  • Own full-cycle recruitment for all UK roles, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer management, acting as the primary in-house recruiter for the UK market

  • Build and manage UK requisition pipelines, ensuring time-to-fill and quality-of-hire targets are met

  • Proactively source and engage passive candidates using Boolean search, ATS tools, LinkedIn Recruiter, and talent databases, maintaining strong pipeline hygiene

Hiring Manager Partnership

  • Partner closely with UK hiring managers to define role requirements, build job scorecards, and design effective interview processes

  • Act as a trusted advisor and business partner to UK hiring managers, consulting on headcount planning, role prioritization, and org structure as it relates to staffing needs

  • Educate and coach hiring managers on interview best practices, structured assessment, and inclusive hiring techniques

  • Drive a consistently excellent candidate experience from first touch through offer and handoff into onboarding

Talent Data & Analytics

  • Track and report on UK recruitment metrics (time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline conversion, offer acceptance, cost-per-hire) to inform hiring strategy

  • Build and maintain dashboards/reporting that give hiring managers and leadership visibility into pipeline health and hiring progress against plan

  • Use data to identify bottlenecks in the hiring process and recommend improvements to sourcing channels, interview process, or time-to-fill

  • Provide regular hiring updates and talent market insights (salary benchmarking, competitor activity, talent availability) to hiring managers and leadership to support workforce planning decisions

Employer Branding & Talent Strategy

  • Own UK employer branding efforts, careers page presence, social content, job ad quality, and candidate-facing messaging, to strengthen the company's positioning in the UK talent market

  • Represent the company at UK recruitment events, career fairs, and industry meetups as needed

HR Support

  • Support culture and engagement initiatives for the UK population, in partnership with the broader People team

  • Contribute to UK onboarding experience design, ensuring new hires have a strong first 90 days

  • Assist with ad hoc UK HR projects as needed (e.g., internal communications, employee experience initiatives)

  • Oversee day-to-day UK office operations, including facilities, vendor relationships, supply procurement, and space planning, ensuring a healthy, safe, and productive working environment

Experience & Skills

  • A bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field is preferred

  • At least 4–6 years of experience in full-cycle recruitment, ideally as an in-house/corporate recruiter in the UK market

  • Proven track record of building strong hiring manager relationships and running structured, efficient interview processes

  • Hands-on experience with sourcing tools, ATS platforms, and Boolean search techniques

  • Experience contributing to or owning employer branding initiatives

  • Comfortable working with recruitment data and ATS reporting to track metrics and build hiring updates for stakeholders; advanced Excel/Sheets skills a plus

  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to act as a credible advisor to hiring managers and leaders

  • Highly organized, able to manage multiple open requisitions and competing priorities simultaneously

  • General familiarity with UK employment practices is a plus, though this role is not responsible for UK employment law, payroll, or compliance ownership

The kind of people we work with embody some of these characteristics:

  • Innovative, creative, and passionate about enabling businesses through talent acquisition.

  • Pride in delivering quality work, every time with strong business acumen and abilities to learn, retain and apply learned concepts.

  • Strong solutions mindset: Comfortable working in an environment which requires strong deliverables along with the ability to identify problems and drive appropriate actions; Highly organized and process oriented.

  • Bias for action, strong work ethic, and desire to achieve excellence.

  • Enthusiastic team player with a strong drive to ensure a positive work environment. Cares about others' success deeply.

  • Agile; Can pivot priorities with ease while staying calm.

  • The ability to be comfortable with high volume workload and not be afraid to “roll up your sleeves”.

  • Relentless seeker of talent with a deep network who is driven by collaboration, learning, doing the right thing and quality human interaction.

  • Personal alignment and belief in guiding ideas including Advancement | Dependability | Responsibility | Empowerment | Teamwork | Meritocracy

About R2 Global powered by R2 Global powered by Talento:
R2 Global powered by R2 Global powered by Talento is a high growth talent & organizational solutions firm. Through R2 Global powered by Talento Recruiting, we are transforming the customer experience standards in the recruiting services arena. The company was founded in 2017 with the belief that human capital should be viewed as an asset on the balance sheet. Through its integrated human capital services, the R2 Global powered by Talento team has supported 65+ enterprise, middle market and startup/high growth organizations in 15 countries with recruiting, contingent workforce management, employer branding, strategy, transformation, organization design & implementation, career pathing, outplacement, employer branding and leadership development solutions. Some of the benefits of working for R2 Global powered by Talento HC are as follows:

  • Culture focused on advancing your career while disrupting an industry and providing unrivaled service; Rapid advancement and promotion opportunities based on merit

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Full tailored learning and development training program

  • Tiered commission structure with uncapped earning potential

R2 Global powered by Talento envisions a world where the recruiting industry service model evolves into human capital partnership that drives organizational performance. Through trust and value, you are positioned to offer talent & organizational solutions that separate you from the rest. With 1000+ searches in the last 36 months, R2 Global powered by Talento Recruiting has established a footprint that it is ready to scale to the next level.
Our organization continues to thrive through our ongoing commitment to building an inclusive and diverse workforce from different backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

R2 Global powered by Talento Human Capital (HC) is an equal opportunity employer, people are at the center of what we do!

People + Passion + Perseverance = Progress