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About the Role
The Head of Talent Acquisition will lead Allica’s Talent Acquisition function at an important stage of growth, owning the recruitment strategy and operating model across the UK and India, leading a team of four, and partnering with senior leaders. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on setting strategy, improving the operating model, coaching the team, using data to drive decisions, and ensuring efficient hiring without compromising quality or candidate experience.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end Talent Acquisition strategy and annual hiring plan across the UK and India.
- Translate business growth plans into clear recruitment priorities, capacity and delivery plans.
- Lead a team of four, with three direct reports, setting clear standards, coaching, developing the team, and allocating work effectively.
- Build a high-performing, accountable recruitment function.
- Oversee end-to-end recruitment across the bank, ensuring strong execution from intake through onboarding.
- Maintain a high bar for quality, pace, diversity, and candidate experience.
- Move TA further towards pipeline-led recruitment, strengthening direct sourcing and talent pooling.
- Use agencies selectively and manage external spend with discipline.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and hiring managers, challenging constructively where required.
- Improve capability in role definition, interviewing, calibration, and decision-making.
- Establish clear recruitment MI and regular reporting across key metrics.
- Use insight to shape decisions and improve outcomes.
- Own continuous improvement of recruitment processes, ATS/HR technology, and supplier governance.
- Ensure the function operates efficiently and in line with Allica’s control environment.
- Identify and embed practical AI and automation opportunities to improve recruitment activities.
- Partner with People, Marketing, and business leaders to strengthen employer brand and candidate experience.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading Talent Acquisition in a high-growth technology, fintech, or financial services organisation, ideally in an in-house environment.
- Experience leading a recruitment team through growth and change, with evidence of developing capability, raising standards, and improving performance.
- Strong end-to-end recruitment expertise across multiple disciplines, including technology and other specialist or hard-to-hire roles.
- Proven direct sourcing and talent-pipeline capability, with a pragmatic approach to agency use and supplier management.
- Strong data and commercial fluency, able to turn recruitment data into clear insight, decisions, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Experience improving recruitment operating models, processes, governance, and ATS/technology enabled ways of working.
- Confident, credible stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence and constructively challenge senior hiring managers.
- Experience using AI or automation to improve recruitment activity, with good judgement around appropriate use and governance.
- Ability to operate across geographies and cultures, with experience of UK and international recruitment environments.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition strategy
- Recruitment operating model
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Data analysis
- Direct sourcing
- Talent pooling
- Agency management
- Employer branding
- AI and automation in recruitment
- Recruitment process improvement
- ATS/HR technology management
Location
- UK
- India
- Sweden
Work Type
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Leadership
- Head of Talent Acquisition
Benefits
- Full onboarding support
- Continued development opportunities
- Options for flexible working
- Regular social activities
- Pension contributions
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Private health cover
- Life assurance
- Family friendly policies
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
About the Company
- Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever.
- Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.
- Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities, representing over a third of our economy.
- People & Talent is a hands-on team helping Allica and its colleagues reach ambitious business goals.
- We partner across the bank to build the capability, culture, and employee experience needed to support growth.
- We keep our ways of working simple, practical, and focused on outcomes.
- With a new VP of People recently joining Allica, we're putting renewed focus behind our People and Talent agenda.
- We're looking for a Head of Talent Acquisition who can help shape this next chapter, bringing fresh thinking, strong execution, and a clear focus on building a high-performing, proactive TA function.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles.
- Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.