Talent Acquisition Partner (MAT)

Please note: This is a maternity cover FTC and we’re looking for someone to start immediately!

Our Team: How We Enrich Everyday Life: 

The Talent Acquisition team plays a critical role in enabling Bauer Media Group’s success by securing the best talent across all areas of the business. We partner strategically with leaders to deliver a recruitment process that is efficient, transparent, and aligned with Bauer’s values.

Our focus extends beyond filling positions - we build long-term talent pipelines, strengthen employer branding, and ensure an exceptional candidate experience. Through data-driven insights and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, we help shape a workforce that drives innovation and growth.

The Difference You’ll Make:

As our Talent Acquisition Partner, you will focus on sourcing, screening, and managing candidate expectations with a view to maintain a positive candidate experience.

You’ll work closely with senior team members and hiring managers, and will contribute to building talent pipelines, managing open requisitions, and supporting TA initiatives across all markets globally.

Your Role:

End To End Recruitment

• Own end-to-end recruitment for 10-15 roles at a time for assigned departments, including job postings, candidate management, and offers, ensuring accuracy, pace, and smooth processes
• Guide hiring managers on interview techniques and decision-making while collaborating with TA Partners on complex hiring projects
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities and communicate actionable recommendations to stakeholders
• Design and implement scalable recruiting processes, templates, and frameworks for use across BMG

Sourcing & Talent Engagement

• Deploy diverse sourcing techniques—LinkedIn, job boards, talent pools, referrals, and social media—to find and engage qualified candidates
• Build proactive pipelines of passive talent for high-demand roles and track engagement using ATS and CRM platforms

Stakeholder Partnership & Market Intelligence

• Build strong relationships with hiring managers, HR BPs, candidates, agencies, and job boards, serving as trusted talent advisor
• Provide market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, and talent landscape analysis to inform hiring decisions
• Represent the company at recruiting events, build talent communities, and strengthen employer brand in target markets
• Manage and optimize agency and job board relationships to ensure cost-effective, high-quality pipelines

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Champion diversity initiatives through inclusive sourcing strategies and fair, unbiased candidate evaluation
• Partner with hiring managers to reduce bias in job descriptions, interview processes, and assessments
• Track and report diversity metrics across the recruiting funnel, identifying opportunities to improve representation

Data, Analytics & Candidate Experience

• Track key recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline health) to identify bottlenecks and optimize processes
• Create exceptional candidate experiences at every touchpoint, from outreach through onboarding
• Provide regular reporting on recruiting effectiveness, pipeline status, and hiring trends to leadership

Additional Responsibilities

• Own onboarding experience through day 1, including day 1 induction.
• Travel to other BMG offices, events, and career fairs as required
• Present workshops and attend events supporting DEI and Social Value initiative

The Skills You’ll Bring:

Personal Competencies

• Proven in-house experience in full-cycle recruitment, sourcing techniques, and interviewing methodologies.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple requisitions and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in working under tight deadlines and delivering results.
• Basic knowledge of employment law and hiring compliance is a plus.

Social Competencies

• A passion for people, recruitment, and delivering a great candidate experience.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills with the ability to build relationships across all levels of the organisation; a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Eagerness to learn and grow within a collaborative, high-performing TA team.

IT Skills

• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Experience with ATS and HR systems; familiarity with LinkedIn Recruiter is an advantage.

Language Skills

• Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus.

Working Pattern/Location:

This role can be based in Peterborough or London, and will require attendance in the office 2 days per week with the rest working from home.

Closing Date: Thursday 19th February - This may close earlier than planned depending on the high volume of applications. 

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. 
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. 
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, however, the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.