Talent Acquisition Lead

As a Talent Acquisition Lead, you'll act as a trusted recruitment partner, helping the business attract, engage and secure talented people across both permanent and contingent hiring. You'll influence hiring strategies, build strong stakeholder relationships and play a key role in delivering workforce solutions within a complex project environment. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies to meet current and future hiring demands.
• Partnering with hiring managers, project leaders and customers to understand workforce requirements and recruitment priorities.
• Working closely with our recruitment process outsourcing and managed service provider partners to ensure a high-quality recruitment service.
• Analysing recruitment data and workforce trends to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Driving project-based recruitment campaigns to deliver the right people with the right skills at the right time., You will work 37 hours per week, with flexible and hybrid working arrangements available, alongside regular travel to our Bridgwater and Bristol sites.
  
  Proven experience designing and embedding sourcing strategies within a complex organisational environment.
• Experience leading large-scale recruitment campaigns or project-based hiring programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience using Excel and reporting tools to analyse data and support business decisions.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required., We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you., The successful candidate must be a sole UK national and able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at
  
  We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

What we offer
• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.