Flock

Talent Acquisition Lead

Flock

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead Flock’s end-to-end hiring strategy, ensuring we consistently attract and hire top-tier talent in line with the top 1% initiative across technical and non-technical functions.
  • Own the full hiring lifecycle: proactive sourcing, screening, structured assessment, agency management, offer negotiation and onboarding.
  • Deliver tailored hiring strategies across multiple disciplines, including leading complex, hard-to-fill and business-critical searches.
  • Proactively build and maintain proactive pipelines of high-potential future hires and succession planning.
  • Partner with the CEO, CFO and business leaders on workforce planning, org design and hiring priorities, using data to guide decisions.
  • Continuously improve hiring outcomes, reducing time-to-hire and time-to-fill, while improving quality-of-hire through intelligent assessment design and structured interviewing.
  • Design, implement and own Flock’s performance framework, including remuneration, progression, behaviours, calibration and feedback.
  • Partner with ELT and SLT to embed performance rituals and talent reviews that meaningfully improve output quality.
  • Coach and enable managers through workshops and training on hiring, onboarding, feedback, time-to-productivity and performance interventions.
  • Identify high performers and future leaders, enabling succession planning, mobility and development.
  • Work closely with the Senior People Partner to ensure performance frameworks, culture and engagement are tightly integrated.
  • Design and scale Flock’s Four-Seasons Internship Programme, selecting and developing exceptional early-career talent.
  • Improve onboarding through a performance-first lens, accelerating time to high contribution.
  • Act as Flock’s AI role model for Talent and Performance, identifying opportunities to automate sourcing, screening, communication, reporting and insight generation.
  • Elevate Flock’s employer brand through storytelling, content, events, and candidate experience excellence.
  • Create practical performance documentation and playbooks (onboarding, time-to-productivity, promotions).

Requirements

  • You’ve got 5+ years experience in Talent Acquisition in fast-paced, high-accountability environments, in large scale organisations or start ups.
  • You have a basic understanding of performance and people processes
  • You have a proven track record of owning full-cycle hiring across multiple functions, with a tech bias and ideally some insurance experience too.
  • You are a strong strategic partner with strong collaboration skills and the ability to work closely with hiring managers to advise, prioritise and execute.
  • You are an exceptional communicator both in writing and in conversation and you are able to influence and coach stakeholders of all levels.
  • You have a data-driven mindset and are able to translate insights into actionable hiring strategies, report outcomes against objectives, and drive execution in line with our ambitious goal of hiring the top 1% talent.
  • You have a deep network and leverage your relationships to shape market perception, open doors to exceptional talent, and strengthen our employer brand presence.
  • You are expert at using modern tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, Lever, Metaview and more) and boolean logic to find candidates who aren't looking.
  • You know what great looks like in terms of talent and hold a high bar -- but you’re also pragmatic, fast-moving, and solutions-oriented.
Benefits
  • Participation in Flock’s Share Option Scheme 🧬
  • 25 days of holiday (+ Bank Holidays) 🏖
  • Workplace Pension 💰
  • Private Medical Insurance 🏩 (including Optical 👓 & Mental Health 💆‍♀️)
  • Various Salary Sacrifice Schemes - Workplace Nursery, Holiday Purchase, Tech, Gym, Cycle to Work, Electric Vehicle, Private Medical Insurance for families 💵
  • Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay 🐣
  • £1000 toward relevant professional qualifications 🎓
  • £500 per annum towards learning and development 🌱
  • 3 days paid leave for L&D purposes 🌻

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
full-cycle hiringperformance frameworkstructured assessmentdata-driven decision makingsuccession planningtalent acquisitiononboarding improvementcandidate experiencehiring strategy designperformance documentation
Soft skills
strategic partnershipcollaborationcommunicationinfluencecoachingproblem-solvingpragmatismadaptabilityleadershipstakeholder management