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About the Role

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will play a key role in supporting Medialab’s recruitment efforts. You’ll work closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition and Inclusion, hiring managers, and the wider People team to deliver a smooth, inclusive, and engaging candidate experience. This is a hands-on role where you’ll manage day-to-day recruitment activities, a high volume of roles, help attract diverse talent, and provide advice and guidance to hiring managers.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for a variety of roles, ensuring a positive and efficient candidate experience.
• Partner with hiring managers to take role briefs and provide advice on job descriptions, adverts, and sourcing strategies.
• Manage candidate movement in our ATS by screening applicants, tracking progress, and keeping all our recruitment data clean and up to date.
• Keep track of key recruitment metrics like time-to-hire, candidate conversion, and channel performance, to continuously tweak sourcing approaches.
• Embed competency-based interview frameworks and fair assessment tools to remove bias and elevate hiring standards.
• Spot opportunities to refine the recruitment journey, whether that’s updating email templates, tweaking interview tasks, or testing new sourcing tools.
• Work with the People & Talent Acquisition Administrator to coordinate recruitment administration, including interview scheduling and feedback collection.
• Proactively search for candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and other channels.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of talent for recurring and hard-to-fill roles.
• Develop relationships with passive candidates, keeping them engaged for future opportunities.
• Draft engaging job adverts and recruitment content that reflect Medialab’s culture and values.
• Guide hiring managers on recruitment best practices, market insights, and inclusive hiring techniques.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships across all agency departments so team leads see you as a strategic talent partner.
• Use live recruitment data and candidate pipeline reports to keep stakeholders clearly informed on progress, potential bottlenecks, and time-to-fill projections.
• Provide clear, data-informed updates on recruitment progress to hiring teams and the broader People department.

Requirements

• Experience recruiting across typical agency disciplines, including Media Planning & Strategy, Digital Performance (Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic), Data Analytics, and Client Services.
• Proven track record in talent acquisition (in-house or agency), preferably within a fast-paced agency or high-growth environment.
• Skilled in navigating ATS platforms and proficient with proactive candidate search tools like LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills to manage dynamic, high-volume recruitment loads seamlessly.
• Genuine passion for candidate experience and a deep commitment to driving equity, diversity, and accessibility in hiring.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the natural confidence to influence hiring managers and build trust with candidates.

Skills

• LinkedIn Recruiter
• ATS platforms
• Candidate experience
• Equity, diversity, and accessibility in hiring
• Interpersonal skills
• Influencing hiring managers
• Building trust with candidates

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Agency disciplines experience
• Talent acquisition experience
• Fast-paced agency or high-growth environment experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Pension
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Weekly social events
• Big summer / end of year parties
• Generous holiday entitlement that increases with long service
• Christmas closure
• Birthday day off
• Holiday buy scheme
• Flexi-hours
• Work abroad scheme
• Cultural bank holiday swaps
• Friday Summer hours
• Private medical insurance
• Health cash plan
• Gym discounts
• Wellbeing apps
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Unlimited free professional counselling
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance
• Paid charity days
• Sustainability initiatives
• Retail discounts
• Long-service trips

About the Company

• Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry.
• We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.
• Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is recognised and rewarded.
• There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025.
• As well as this, we’re Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and Media Week’s Independent Agency of the Year 2025.
• We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency, and All In Champions, with industry-leading work recognised by double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites and a 2025 Effie for our work with Alzheimer’s Society.
• Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people.
• We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.