Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - 6 month FTC

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (3-6 month fixed-term contract)

Contract Type – Fixed-term (3-6 months) 
Location: Hybrid (1 day a week in our London Office) 
Salary Range: £65,500 - £71,500 

About us: 
We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future. 

And in order to it is absolutely essential that we are truly representative of the people we support, and those who support us. So building an inclusive, skilled and diverse organisation, where everyone can belong and where there are no barriers to success is a fundamental part of our mission. As a member of our Talent Acquisition Team you will play a fundamental role in this, ensuring we bring in and mobilise a skilled and passionate colleague base who bring diverse voices and experiences into our work. 

About the role:

This is an exciting time for Talent Acquisition at Macmillan, as we continue to grow as a more strategic, specialist and data driven function, collaborating with teams and stakeholders across the organisation to drive our ambitions around truly inclusive recruitment.  

You will be a passionate EDI advocate, driving our mission to be representative of those that we support and help us to think about how we connect with a broader pool of talent and diversify the voices and colleague base within our organisation.  

In return, you will work with an ambitious, collaborative team who strive for greatness and have a strong growth culture in seeking out continuous improvement and putting the customer (be it candidate or hiring manager) at the heart of everything we do.   

In this role, you’ll be responsible for advising senior leaders (up to CEO and board level) and collaborating with the wider business to ensure we attract the best skills and talent to deliver our ambitious new strategy. You can read more about this here Our strategy | Macmillan Cancer Support.  

Full role details can be found on the job profile linked below. 

 About you – you will: 

• Be a seasoned senior talent acquisition professional who has done a comparable role at the senior lead level and can autonomously lead complex processes with minimal supervision (please note, if you do not have this experience, we will unfortunately not be able to consider you for this role).   

• Demonstrable and in-depth experience of recruiting at up to senior level in healthcare market, or social impact space (please note, if you do not have this experience, we will unfortunately not be able to consider you for this role).  

• Have gained a breadth and depth of talent acquisition operational and project experience across a number of roles and or sectors. We are also open to those from an agency or search background.  

• Demonstrable experience of developing and implementing impactful and measurable EDI initiatives and being an ambassador for embedding true inclusion in all that you do. 

• Skilled in understanding and working with data and insights, to shape meaningful narrative to drive future action and shape solutions.  

• Significant experience in influencing senior stakeholders and facing into challenging conversations. 

• Demonstrable experience of hiring for senior roles (up to c suite level and Board/Non-Executive Director roles), directly and managing partners where needed. 

• Operate with a continuous improvement mindset, seeking out opportunities to streamline processes and maximise efficiencies and optimise the use of talent acquisition systems and tools. 

Please note that due to the interim nature of this role, we are looking for someone who is available to join us quickly.   

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Fri 16th May 2025
First interview dates: End of May 2025 (TBC)

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments. 

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.