Senior Recruitment Partner, UK & EMEA

Role Overview

• Lead end‑to‑end recruitment processes for senior, specialist and critical roles across UK and EMEA.
• Act as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders in these regions, providing guidance on hiring strategies, role scoping and talent availability.
• Challenge, influence and advise stakeholders to ensure high‑quality, inclusive and sustainable hiring decisions.
• Own and manage complex recruitment processes, ensuring an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Provide deep market intelligence for UK and EMEA, including talent mapping and competitor insights.
• Proactively identify regional talent risks and opportunities and propose data‑driven solutions.
• Ensure effective use of the ATS (Pinpoint), maintaining high standards of data accuracy.
• Identify improvements to recruitment processes, tools and regional ways of working.
• Mentor Recruiters and Junior Recruiters, supporting capability building across the team.
• Track and analyse recruitment metrics across UK and EMEA (time to hire, pipeline health, diversity metrics, quality of hire).
• Provide insights and recommendations to stakeholders and People leadership based on regional data.
• Support the execution of the global employer branding strategy across UK and EMEA, ensuring the employee value proposition is consistently applied across all recruitment touchpoints.
• Build and manage strategic talent partnerships (e.g. universities, professional networks, industry groups).
• Represent the company externally when appropriate (events, panels, networking, talent initiatives) to increase brand visibility and talent pipeline strength.
• Ensure a consistent, inclusive and compelling candidate experience aligned with our employer brand values.
• Actively contribute to Talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence initiatives, supporting the delivery of projects and priorities defined in the TA roadmap.
• Collaborate with global TA peers on standardisation, best practices and process improvements across regions.
• Pilot and support the implementation of new tools, processes and ways of working arising from CoE projects.
• Share market insights and regional learnings (UK & EMEA) to inform global TA strategy and continuous improvement.
• Act as a change ambassador, supporting adoption of new initiatives within the business.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in a recruitment or talent acquisition role within a global, matrixed organisation.
• Strong track record of partnering with senior stakeholders and delivering hiring for complex and business‑critical roles.
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute inbound and outbound talent attraction strategies, including proactive sourcing, talent pipelining and campaign‑based hiring approaches.
• Experience recruiting across UK and/or EMEA markets is a plus.
• Strong experience using ATS systems.
• Fluent in business English (additional languages a plus).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.

Benefits

• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company.
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team.
• Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients.
• Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME’s who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have.
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis.
• Competitive salary in line with experience and skills.
• Competitive benefits including flexible working.
• Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.