High Salary Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Description

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers worldwide. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

Taylor & Francis is one of the worlds largest publishers of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books, and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas, and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And weve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because thats the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then wed love to hear from you.

Job Description

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, you will drive commercial success by strategically aligning our talent acquisition efforts with business objectives, with a particular focus on Product and Technology vacancies. In today&aposs competitive tech landscape, your expertise will be instrumental in securing specialised technical talent that directly accelerates our digital transformation, product innovation, and technology capabilities. By partnering with hiring managers across our technology functions globally and working with colleagues within the People Team, you will provide specialist recruitment expertise that translates into measurable business outcomes, reduced time-to-hire for hard-to-fill tech positions, and enhanced quality of technical talentall factors that directly impact our product development timelines, technological advancement, and market position.

Qualifications

What you will be doing:

- Leading the partnership with hiring managers to develop effective recruitment plans for candidate attraction, including creation of compelling job adverts and designing assessment methods
- Working strategically with People Team colleagues across our global offices to provide senior-level recruitment assistance and resolve complex challenges in candidate sourcing
- Conducting and leading interviews with managers across the global business for key roles and senior hires
- Driving the delivery of the global recruitment process, and educating managers in best practice recruitment approaches
- Identifying and implementing opportunities for combined resourcing activities across the business when there are multiple roles of a similar nature
- Actively championing diversity in our talent pipeline by seeking a diverse range of candidates and promoting accessible methods of assessment, collaborating with the internal DE&I team and external diversity partnerships
- Ensuring all recruitment advertising is strategically positioned and adheres to appropriate legislation and company policy, with oversight on selection tools and processes
- Leading our recruitment messaging and brand promotion across social media channels to increase candidate attraction, and upskilling line managers on social media use in recruitment
- Providing strategic guidance and support to the global TA team on recruitment projects and initiatives

What we are looking for:

- Extensive experience of partnering with senior business stakeholders to support strategic recruitment activities
- Comprehensive global knowledge of recruitment practices with the ability to adapt approaches for different markets
- Advanced knowledge of recruitment best practice on interviews and assessment, alongside thorough understanding of HR legislation pertinent to recruitment activities
- Proficient knowledge and experience of HRIS/ATS systems with the ability to optimise their use
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels
- Strategic problem-solving abilities with a continuous improvement approach
- Outstanding time management skills to balance competing demands while meeting critical deadlines
- Demonstrable experience of building and maintaining relationships with senior stakeholders to drive recruitment excellence
- Experience in maintaining high levels of data integrity
- Demonstrated capability to mentor and guide team members in tech recruitment strategies, including specialised sourcing techniques for Product and Technology roles and understanding of technical skill assessment

This senior role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our global talent acquisition strategy while working with diverse stakeholders across our international business.

Additional Information

Additional information

Closing Date: 19th September 2025

You must have the right to work and live in India.

Location: The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our Bengaluru office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office location to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That&aposs why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When youre not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces like at conference you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

What we offer in return:

- A competitive salary + bonus
- 24 days annual leave
- 4 volunteering days annually
- Day off for your birthday
- Pension contributions
- Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self
- Seasonal social and charitable events
- Training and development
- Tools and equipment for remote working

Training And Professional Development:

Were passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. Well support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Interview process:

Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, wed then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else please ask us, we are happy to be flexible Please contact [Confidential Information]

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis:

If youre excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience dont fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.

We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site:http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn Life Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. Its also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group/life/79e0c27c-afdf-4bbb-84e6-5f8ed5e10bb8/