Talent Acquisition Partner (18 Month FTC)

Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)

• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension

• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)

• Car/Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)

• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)

• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others

• Enhanced sick pay

• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

• Private Medical Insurance – dependant on grade

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.

• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!

• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.

• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our Business

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Role & Responsibilities:

About the role

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Raytheon UK and RTX by delivering exceptional end-to-end recruitment support. Partnering with business and functional leaders, you’ll ensure we attract, engage, and secure the very best talent – both internally and externally – to drive our growth.

This role blends strategic partnership with hands-on delivery, operating in a direct-to-market model where candidate experience, business impact, and agility are key.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop trusted partnerships with stakeholders, elevating the impact of Talent Acquisition across the business.

• Collaborate closely with People & Culture Business Partners to meet recruitment needs and provide strategic talent guidance.

• Partner with the Talent Management team to connect pipelines (early careers through to future leaders).

• Represent Talent Acquisition in leadership forums, ensuring recruitment priorities are visible and aligned with business strategy.

• Champion a seamless candidate experience with timely updates and constructive feedback.

Required experience

• Proven success in permanent or contract recruitment (in-house or agency), ideally in a matrix organisation.

• Strong track record in direct sourcing and headhunting using platforms such as LinkedIn.

• Experience managing the full recruitment cycle across multiple disciplines.

• Flexible approach to sourcing, able to balance internal mobility with external talent acquisition.

• Work in a fast-paced environment and manage high volume recruitment

• Experience of recruiting in engineering, Software, Test Development and Manufacturing

Desirable experience

• Knowledge of recruiting within Cybersecurity, Software, Engineering, Defence, Aerospace, or similar technical domains.

• Experience building pipelines in partnership with Talent Development teams (e.g. early careers, future leaders).

RTX
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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