Internal & External Talent Attraction Lead | S2 | P&C | Unity Place, Milton Keynes

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Are you passionate about creating market-leading talent experiences? We’re building a brand-new in-house Talent Acquisition team at Santander UK, and we’re looking for passionate recruitment experts to help us internalise and elevate our hiring experience. This is your opportunity to drive change, shape our recruitment processes, and contribute to building the workforce of the future. 

Here, your expertise won’t just fill roles—it will shape careers, influence business growth, this is a unique opportunity to join at a pivotal time, shaping the future of talent, driving value beyond hiring and contributing to a market leading employee experience from the top down. 

The Internal & External Talent Attraction Lead will play a key role in shaping a unified, high-impact attraction strategy that not only engages top external talent but also champions internal mobility and career growth. 
 
You’ll act as a strategic partner to our Talent Acquisition team, ensuring hiring managers are supported with clear, consistent, and inclusive approaches to finding the right talent—wherever it may sit. 
 
This role plays a key part in positioning the bank as an employer of choice, leading external & internal attraction efforts, social media campaigns, and recruitment marketing initiatives. The role requires strong partnership with internal stakeholders, external vendors, and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with talent needs and brand messaging. 

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Proven experience in leading the design and delivery of talent attraction strategies across internal and external channels, tailored to key business areas and workforce plans. 

• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute effective talent attraction and employee branding strategies that drive candidate engagement and elevate brand perception 

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with hiring managers to deliver a superior recruitment experience—one that’s efficient, brand-aligned, and candidate-focused. 

• Ability to Plan, create, and execute social media and internal & external recruitment campaigns to drive visibility and engagement with key talent audiences. 

• Ability to take a data driven approach – using analytics to measure the effectiveness of talent attraction strategies, with the ability to pivot based on data insights 

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Understanding of Digital Marketing principles, including social media, content marketing, paid campaigns and how they relate to recruitment marketing 

• Experience of leveraging insights, trends, and talent data to inform campaigns and measure performance 

• Content Creation: Developing engaging recruitment content including job ads, career site materials, employee stories, and videos etc 

What else you need to know:

This role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes. 

We want our people to thrive at work and home and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).  

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location. 

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process. 

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.  We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.
How we’ll reward you.

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.  

• (Starting salary of £36,150 plus a) £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits. 

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.

• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.

• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.

• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.

• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more. 

• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.

• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.

• As a Santander UK employee, you can request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services

What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email, or face to face. You can contact us at [email protected].