Talent Acquisition Advisor

Job Title

Talent Acquisition Advisor (6-month contract)

Job Description Summary

The Talent Acquisition Advisor will be responsible for sourcing, attracting, selecting and hiring specialist talent, with a focus on technical and data centre recruitment. The role will support hiring across data centres, critical environments, engineering, facilities management, construction and project delivery.
Using proactive sourcing, talent mapping and pipeline development, this role will identify and engage talent in competitive and talent-constrained markets. The successful candidate will partner closely with business leaders and hiring managers to understand technical requirements, develop effective recruitment strategies and deliver a consistent, fair and structured recruitment process.
We are looking for an experienced recruiter who is passionate about sourcing hard-to-find talent, providing excellent client service and using market intelligence to develop effective recruitment strategies.This individual contributor role will also provide strategic guidance on talent availability, attraction strategies and recruitment risks, while ensuring effective use of recruitment systems including Workday, GEM and LinkedIn.

Job Description

• Technical Hiring: Manage full-cycle recruitment for technical and specialist positions, ensuring alignment with Cushman & Wakefield’s operational, project and growth requirements.
• Recruitment & Selection: Lead role intake, sourcing, assessment and offer activity, ensuring a consistent recruitment process and a positive candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Talent & Market Mapping: Build pipelines across data centres, critical environments, engineering, facilities management, construction and project delivery. Proactively identify and engage passive and hard-to-find talent.
• Recruitment Strategy: Partner with hiring managers to understand technical requirements and develop targeted sourcing strategies for specialist, urgent and difficult-to-fill positions.
• Project & Mobilisation Hiring: Support recruitment for new client accounts, project mobilisations and anticipated business growth, delivering against agreed timelines and requirements.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Build credibility with business leaders and technical hiring managers, providing advice on talent availability, recruitment timelines, salaries and market conditions.
• Talent Intelligence: Provide insights on candidate availability, competitor activity, skills shortages and compensation expectations to support informed hiring decisions.
• Employee Value Proposition: Collaborate with Recruitment Marketing, Communications and People teams to promote technical career opportunities and Cushman & Wakefield’s employee value proposition.
• HR Systems & Technology: Effectively use and optimise recruitment platforms including Workday, GEM and LinkedIn to manage recruitment activity, talent pipelines and candidate engagement.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure recruitment activity complies with relevant legislation, internal policies, pre-employment requirements and the Delegation of Authority.
• Reporting: Maintain accurate requisition and candidate information, providing clear updates on pipeline progress, hiring risks and recruitment outcomes.
• Financial Stewardship: Use cost-effective sourcing methods and suppliers, with a focus on direct sourcing and reducing unnecessary agency reliance.
• Other Duties: Support regional recruitment initiatives, TA colleagues and broader People projects as required.

Key Skills & Capabilities

• Strong knowledge of full-cycle recruitment, proactive sourcing, candidate assessment and offer management.
• Experience recruiting technical, engineering, facilities, construction, project delivery or other specialist talent.
• Data centre or critical environments recruitment experience is highly desirable.
• Strong sourcing and talent-mapping capability, with experience engaging passive and difficult-to-find candidates.
• Ability to understand complex technical requirements and translate these into practical recruitment strategies.
• Ability to quickly build trust and credibility with hiring managers while providing strategic recruitment advice and talent market insights.
• Experience supporting project-based, mobilisation or high-priority recruitment requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills.
• Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems and CRM platforms, with Workday and GEM preferred.
• Experience using LinkedIn and other direct-sourcing platforms to develop specialist talent pipelines.
• Detail-oriented, proactive and able to manage multiple searches and competing deadlines.
• Industry knowledge of data centres, critical facilities, engineering, construction, commercial real estate or property services is preferred.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources or a related discipline preferred.

• Min. 5 years of relevant Talent Acquisition or recruitment experience within an in-house, agency or RPO environment.

• Demonstrated experience recruiting specialist technical or operational talent.

• Experience within data centres, critical environments, engineering, facilities management, construction, infrastructure or professional services is preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple recruitment assignments and projects with competing priorities and deadlines.

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