Talent Acquisition Lead

Job Title Talent Acquisition Lead – Investment Bank, Corporate Bank & Private Bank United Kingdom & Ireland (UKI)

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

As the UKI Talent Acquisition Lead for Investment Bank, Corporate Bank, and Private Bank, you will lead the Front Office recruitment team; set the TA strategy, act as a strategic Recruiting Partner to senior business leaders, COOs and HR Business Partners across the Front Office.

You will drive and partner with business leaders to attract, assess, and hire top talent through proactive sourcing, market insight, robust candidate assessment, and exceptional stakeholder management, while ensuring a compliant, data driven, and high-quality solution orientation approach.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

• Competitive salary, non-contributory pension, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

 Your key responsibilities

• Lead the UKI Front Office Recruitment team and build an in-depth understanding of current and future hiring requirements, business operations and workforce plans, translating them into practical hiring plans across appropriate channels
• Act as the senior regional Talent Acquisition (TA) trusted adviser and Subject Matter Expert for business stakeholders, HR and Reward: resolve challenges, shape priorities, influence decisions and manage escalations.
• Partner with the Recruitment Process Outsourcer’s (RPO’s) Team Leader to oversee recruiter and sourcer capacity, performance, goals, accountability and delivery excellence.
• Use market trends, candidate expectations and other insights to shape agile hiring and location strategies. With the external research company and RPO, execute proactive market mapping to drive opportunistic engagement, reduce Time to Offer and head-hunter reliance, and ensuring quality of hire.
• Define and track performance metrics and relevant Key Performance Indicators, analyse market data and trends, and translate insights into actionable hiring recommendations that drive continuous process improvement

• Conduct comprehensive interviews and assessments to evaluate leadership capability, technical expertise and cultural alignment.

• Ensure policy, standards, governance, data privacy and regulatory requirements are embedded in the TA strategy and its execution

• Support broader Talent Acquisition initiatives, including employer branding, inclusion strategies, technology hiring transformation and recruitment process optimisation.

Your skills and experience

• Extensive full-lifecycle recruitment experience gained in-house or through an RPO in Investment Banking, plus TA expertise across hiring channels and the ability to design, own and execute commercially focused recruitment strategies and initiatives
• Experience of managing, developing recruiters and sourcers; ability to scale, allocate capability, to deliver against dynamic and shifting priorities

• Strong capability in market mapping, capacity planning and funnel analytics, with the ability to translate business strategy and data led insight into targeted recruitment solutions

• Exposure to complex compensation structures and search firm rates, caps and terms

• Ability to operate with a high degree of discretion, professionalism

• Strong communication, presentation skills and stakeholder management skills

• Problem solving and advisory skills, able to navigate complex and matrixed environments

• Change and transformation experience with a strong focus on candidate and hiring manager experience

• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we’ll support you

·         Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

·         A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

·         Coaching and support from experts in your team

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Proud Employer Trailblazer Status from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge at [email protected] to discuss. For more information about our recruitment process and available adjustments, please visit our Hiring Experience page.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.