Talent Acquisition Partner

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies. 

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards. 

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. 

Are you passionate about finding exceptional talent and shaping a thriving workforce? As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our business has the right people, in the right roles, at exactly the right time. You’ll own the full recruitment lifecycle from attracting and engaging candidates to guiding them through selection and onboarding while delivering an outstanding experience at every stage.

In this role, you’ll partner closely with hiring managers and leaders, using market insight and data to influence hiring decisions and workforce planning. You’ll drive all recruitment activity within your area, manage key external partners and continuously look for smarter, more innovative ways to reach and attract top talent. Your work will also include building talent pipelines, elevating our employer brand, coordinating hiring events, and ensuring our processes are consistent, compliant, and efficient.

This is a full‑time role based in our Slough office, working office hours Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively drive and manage all recruitment activity within perimeter
• Responsible for the full recruitment lifecycle for all assigned requisitions from attraction, screening, selection through to hire plus keep in touch activity during notice period
• Ensure TA process is followed, is clearly communicated and and process enhancements identified and implemented through the appropriate channels
• Ensure compliance in line with DOA, local law including interview notes retention and right to work
• Manage vendor operational performance within the UK including RPO and Agencies
• Write and post professional job adverts
• Coach, challenge and advise Hiring Managers and leaders using recruitment and market data to inform and influence local and key hiring decisions
• Manage all channels to the active candidate market including employee referral, e-sourcing, on and off line advertising, events and agencies
• Accountable for proactively building talent pools and pipeline for future recruitment needs identifying new channels and bringing innovative ideas
• Coordinate with managers and candidates in order to schedule interviews including making room bookings and sending accurate confirmations
• Keep in touch with candidates that are serving notice in order to continue engagement
• Provide support with global projects as required
• Support hiring events in terms of planning and coordination
• Support employer branding and candidate engagement initiatives
• Ensure quality of recruiting data is maintained to the highest possible standard with our Applicant tracking system

• Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  Essential 

• Able to positively influence at all levels of an organization up to senior levels, and to develop valued relationships with managers and candidates alike
• Exceptional communication skills

• Desirable

• Proven recruiting experience within a complex corporate environment matrix ideally multinational
• Experience of identifying both passive and active candidates across a variety of attraction channels 

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity. 

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network. 

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future. 

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career’s website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)