Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Location: Cambridge - hybrid (50% fully flexible)

Employment Type: Full-time

The Job

As a Senior Technical Talent Acquisition (TA) Specialist, you lead end-to-end hiring for technical EMEA roles, ensuring we attract and hire diverse, high-performing talent with pace and quality. You are a trusted advisor to hiring managers, leaders and People Partners, bringing strong expertise in hiring, market intelligence, and consultative partnering. You champion our global TA process, build proactive pipelines for priority segments, and support the regional TA team with your technical knowledge.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end EMEA technical software recruitment, delivering an inclusive candidate experience, creating compelling on-brand adverts, and championing our global TA process.
• Proactively source and engage high-calibre technical software talent and build strategic pipelines across priority segments, using targeted, data and market-led approaches and continuously optimising based on funnel performance and hiring outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, leaders and People Partners, creating and owning hiring plans and guiding hiring teams on structured, inclusive assessment and selection to ensure the right role calibration and hiring decisions.

• Provide actionable market intelligence and use TA data/funnel analytics to inform decisions, remove hiring bottlenecks, and deliver clear insights and updates to stakeholders.

Essential requirements

• Demonstrable in-house/corporate Talent Acquisition experience recruiting for highly technical roles within EMEA, especially the UK.
• Depth of experience hiring into R&D, especially within Cloud and AI Software environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and consultative partnering skills; credible with technical hiring managers and senior leaders.
• Excellent sourcing and networking capability; able to proactively identify and engage top talent.
• Experience working in a complex, matrixed organisation, collaborating closely with HR teams and multiple key stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of regional labour markets and ability to translate insights into hiring strategy.

Desired skills

• Market knowledge & hiring experience across a variety of EMEA countries.
• Experience mentoring/coaching other TA team members and contributing to cross-functional projects.

People at AVEVA

We’re focused on the single most important part of AVEVA’s business: our employees. From recruitment and reward to experience and engagement, our partnerships across the business create and enable the conditions for every individual to thrive.

Doing the best we can for our great people requires quick thinking – and big thinking. Our team is as involved in the day-to-day activities affecting the employee experience as we are in the global transformation projects shaping AVEVA’s future. Join us and become part of a diverse and vibrant group that’s striving to make every day at AVEVA even better than the last.

Find out more: https://www.aveva.com/en/about/careers/

UK Benefits include:  

Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.

It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

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Hybrid working

We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the work, and certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.

Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/hiring-process

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.

We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/

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AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check.  Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.  AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.