Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Join Our Team as a Talent Acquisition Partner at Boots!

Contract: Full-time, Maternity Cover
Location: Nottingham Support Office - 5 days per week in Nottingham 
Interviews week commencing 2nd November
Please only apply if you can commit to travelling to Nottingham 5 days per week.

About the role

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner within Boots, you will lead a small team by example, delivering market-leading recruitment solutions across some of the UK's most challenging healthcare talent markets. Combining exceptional sourcing and headhunting expertise with strong commercial awareness, you will influence hiring outcomes, drive continuous improvement, and champion best practice across the team.

You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, using market intelligence, workforce insights, and talent trends to shape recruitment strategies and support long-term workforce planning. Alongside managing your own portfolio of vacancies, you will play a key role in developing the capability of others through coaching, mentoring, and sharing best practice.

As part of our TA team, you will:

• Deliver end-to-end recruitment across a portfolio of complex and hard-to-fill healthcare vacancies.
• Utilise proactive sourcing, headhunting, networking, and talent mapping techniques to attract exceptional talent.
• Partner with senior business leaders to develop strategic recruitment plans and provide talent market insight.
• Lead and role model best practice recruitment, driving consistency, quality, and continuous improvement across the team.
• Coach and mentor Talent Acquisition Partners, supporting their development and sharing expertise.
• Analyse recruitment performance data to identify opportunities, influence decision-making, and improve outcomes.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines to reduce future hiring risk and support workforce planning.
• Collaborate with wider People teams, Employer Brand, and external partners to strengthen Boots' attraction strategy.
• Lead or contribute to recruitment projects that enhance processes, candidate experience, and hiring manager engagement.
• Deputise for the Talent Acquisition Manager when required, demonstrating leadership and ownership across the function.

To succeed in this role, you should possess:

• Significant experience delivering recruitment in competitive, target-driven environments.
• Proven success sourcing and securing talent within challenging or specialist markets.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at senior levels.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, or developing others.
• A data-led, commercially minded approach to recruitment.
• A passion for delivering exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences.
• A continuous improvement mindset, always looking for opportunities to challenge the status quo and raise standards.

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At Boots, we believe in your potential. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career within a supportive environment that values your contributions. With our commitment to learning and development, you can shape your future while making a meaningful impact.

If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. We are open to discussing part-time and job share options. If you require additional support during the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you be at your best.

We hope to hear from you soon. Be brilliant with Boots!

Senior TA