Talent Acquisition Operations Partner

### What to Expect
As our Talent Acquisition Operations Partner, you’ll be at the heart of how Talent Acquisition operates at McLaren.
Working closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition and wider TA team, you’ll create the operational infrastructure, insight and discipline that enables our Talent Acquisition Partners to operate as true strategic partners to the business.
You’ll lead projects and initiatives that continuously evolve our TA function, spanning technology and transformation, operational excellence, data and insights, governance and process optimisation.
This is an opportunity to challenge how we work today and help shape what comes next. You’ll bring greater visibility to recruitment activity, turn data into meaningful insight and create simpler, smarter and more consistent ways of working, helping us build a world-class Talent Acquisition function that is efficient, innovative and invaluable to the organisation.

What You'll Do

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- Own the operational rhythm of Talent Acquisition, establishing clear priorities, routines, controls and service standards.
- Own our TA reporting and insights, covering hiring progress, requisition ageing, time to hire, pipeline health, interview activity, offers, agency usage, candidate flow and Hiring Manager actions.
- Translate recruitment data into clear insights, risks, recommendations and actions for TA leadership and governance forums.
- Drive ATS and data integrity, improving system adoption, data quality and reporting accuracy.
- Lead continuous improvement and transformation projects, identifying inefficient or inconsistent ways of working and implementing practical solutions.
- Strengthen recruitment processes and governance across requisition approval, candidate management, selection, interviews, offers, right-to-work requirements and onboarding handoffs.
- Coordinate activity across TA Partners, the TA Coordinator, Hiring Managers, HR and other stakeholders, removing operational blockers and ensuring effective handoffs.
- Support recruitment planning for campaigns, high-volume activity, Early Careers and business-critical hiring.

What You'll Bring

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- Proven experience within Talent Acquisition, recruitment operations or recruitment delivery in a fast-paced, complex organisation.
- Strong knowledge of the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, operational governance and stakeholder management.
- Experience establishing effective reporting rhythms, governance forums, action tracking, risk management and operational controls.
- Strong analytical capability and the ability to turn recruitment data into clear insight, priorities and action.
- Experience using an Applicant Tracking System, including improving data quality, system adoption and reporting accuracy.
- A continuous-improvement mindset with experience improving recruitment processes, tools, templates or ways of working.
- Excellent organisational and planning skills, alongside strong attention to detail and follow-through.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate activity across a broad range of stakeholders.

What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus award
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Life assurance benefit
- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.