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PEI

Junior Talent Partner (12 month FTC)

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Junior

Freelance

25-09-2025

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Skills

Communication Leadership Time Management Stakeholder Management CRM Coaching Recruitment

Job Specifications

About The Role

As a Junior Talent Partner, you will partner with various business departments to deliver sustainable and measurable results when it comes to cost, time and quality of hires through effective sourcing, pipeline and forecasting activities. You will build and maintain a strong talent pool of candidates whilst being the key individual who champions the various recruitment processes. You will constantly act as a brand ambassador, working closely with various teams to ensure the right people with the right skills and attitude are hired into the business.

Your role will be to support our full cycle recruiting processes for our specialist Business Divisions. This includes identifying hiring needs, advertising job openings online, driving down hiring costs by using a direct hire model, providing first class candidate experiences to build our reputation in the jobs marketplace - ensuring all our methods of selection and assessment, are fair equal and inclusive.

Roles & Responsibilities

Our Talent Partners act as the operational partner to their aligned business area and are responsible for all hiring activity as well as Talent development and retention initiatives including (but not limited to):

Embed the centralised Recruitment Process across Business Divisions.
Own end to end recruitment activity, prequalifying all vacancies in line with internal sign off process.
Collaborate with hiring line managers to support the creation of job ads for current opening's
Advertise all vacancies on careers pages, job boards, social networks and our ATS, Eploy.
Support and maximise our employee referral scheme.
Act as key point of contact with third party recruitment agencies.
Assist and provide support to managers on a range of recruitment best practises including bias and recruitment interview coaching, onboarding, and fair and inclusive interview methods.
Support Head of Talent with Talent Development initiatives such as Work Experience, Internships, Graduate fairs, Leadership programmes plus many more.
Produce regular reports for HR teams and wider business using a set of agreed recruitment metrics. Ensuring EDI features front and centre in this.
Screen CVs and applications and update candidates on hiring processes.
Ownership of phone screen qualification calls and assisting on 1st and 2nd stage interviews when required.
Evaluate candidates based on their interviews and assessment performances.
Provide candidates with interview feedback.
Liaise with all parts of the global business for business divisions including - UK, US and APAC.
Work extremely closely with all hiring line managers in your business divisions in a coaching and consultative way.
Working closely with Global Talent Partners to ensure a consistent and structured process is followed.
Work closely with the Global HR Team in ensuring that key recruitment metrics are recorded and exceeded.

About You

Essential Experience

Demonstrated experience in a customer- or client-facing role.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage professionally and promptly via phone, email, and in-person interactions.
Proven expertise in stakeholder management, with a track record of effective collaboration across multiple departments.

Desired Experience

Familiarity with ATS systems or CRM platforms, ideally Eploy.
Experience in recruitment, whether in-house, agency, or a similar capacity.
Experience supporting or coordinating work experience initiatives, graduate programs, and career fairs.

Essential Knowledge/Skills

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Comprehensive understanding of the full recruitment lifecycle.
Excellent interpersonal skills, fostering positive working relationships.
Strong organisational and time management abilities, with capacity to manage multiple priorities effectively.

About the Company

We inform and connect investment professionals across global, specialised markets. Since its inception in 2001, PEI has grown into a subscriber-focused business intelligence company with offices in the UK, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, and Hong Kong. PEI is recognised for providing industry-leading market insight, data, and networking to investment professionals through a growing portfolio of 16 premium information brands. We're passionate about the markets we work in, and we know them well. PEI focuses on private in... Know more