Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Description

Contract: Permanent

Location: Nottingham, on site

Closing date: 29th October 2026

Recruitment Partner: Jim Trussler

What you'll be doing

As a Talent Acquisition Partner you’ll support to attract, engage and hire great people across The Boots Group. This role sits within our Support Office TA team, where you’ll partner closely with hiring teams, people partners and other stakeholders to understand resource needs, shape recruitment plans and keep candidate experience at the heart of every process.

You’ll bring pace, care and commercial awareness to a busy recruitment environment, using attraction strategies, social media and labour market insight to build strong pipelines. It’s a hands-on role with real visibility, giving you the chance to influence hiring activity for a much-loved UK brand from the centre of our Nottingham Support Office.

Key responsibilities

• Manage full life-cycle recruitment activity across multiple project hiring needs.
• Partner with people partners, hiring managers and stakeholders to understand current and future resource requirements.
• Create practical, innovative recruitment plans that support project delivery and longer-term workforce needs.
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for priority roles across The Boots Group.
• Act as a brand ambassador across social media channels, sharing Boots’ culture and opportunities with potential candidates.
• Deliver a positive, inclusive candidate experience from first contact through to outcome.
• Provide insight into external labour markets, talent availability and competitive hiring dynamics to support decision-making.
• Use attraction strategies, campaign thinking and recruitment marketing approaches to engage relevant talent.
• Balance pace, quality and stakeholder expectations in a fast-moving recruitment environment.
• Support continuous improvement in how Boots attracts, assesses and hires talent.
• Deliver on agreed recruitment metrics.

What you'll need to have (our must-haves)

• Significant experience in full life-cycle recruitment, ideally gained in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to build relationships with hiring managers and leadership.
• A proactive, solution-focused approach and the ability to keep things moving when priorities change.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, with experience managing multiple roles or projects at once.
• Knowledge of recruitment attraction strategies, including social media and campaign-led activity.
• A genuine focus on candidate experience and inclusive hiring practices.
• Confidence using external market insight to inform recruitment plans and stakeholder conversations.

It would be great if you also have

• Experience in interviewing and selection design.
• Experience supporting project-based recruitment, future workforce planning or campaign hiring.

Where your brilliance can take you

At Boots, we believe in the brilliance our people already bring and give them the opportunity to grow it further. Whether you’re looking to deepen your in-house recruitment expertise, broaden into campaign-led attraction or build experience that supports future TA leadership, this role offers meaningful scope in a team where your work helps shape what’s next.

Rewards designed for you

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.

There’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more athttp://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third-party sites are not endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

A bit about us

At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

What’s next?

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

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Be brilliant with Boots.

• Level: Level 6
• Business area: Support Office
• Function: HR
• Keywords: recruiitment; talent; talent acquisition; TA; recruiter
• Hours per week: 37.5
• Latitude,longitude 1: 52.927182,-1.183948
• Office use only: No
• Airport: No
• Company: Non Stores
• Division: Non Stores
• Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?: No
• Area: East Midlands (non stores)
• Job Code: FNA Recruiter
• Store: Nottingham Support Office
• Req Posted Date: 22-Oct-2026