Talent Acquisition Partner - North America - 6-12 month FTC

Overview

Role: Talent Acquisition Partner - 6 month FTC

Location: Van Buren Township, Michigan - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-2972

 

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

 

The Role 

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Talent Acquisition Partner to join the Ricardo Talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence. TA is a critical function within Ricardo’s people function. The TA function is responsible for attracting, recruiting and hiring top talent. The Talent Acquisition Partner will play a lead role in ensuring Ricardo plc attracts and hires first-rate talent by providing an efficient, high quality, end-to-end recruitment service and candidate experience for all candidates; delivering on all KPIs/SLAs.

 

Additionally, the role calls for collaborative and innovative partnership with key stakeholders across all regional lines of business, including senior leaders and the management team, and internal HR peers. This role will report directly to the Group Head of Talent Acquisition and Strategic Workforce Planning. The position will be based in Michigan with the role requiring support for all North America hiring in line with our globally developed standards.

 

Key Responsibilities

- Talent Acquisition Planning & Partnering

• Act as a talent and resourcing expert, anticipating future hiring needs and delivering against forecasted demand.
• Align recruitment strategies with business priorities, planning for the next 12 to 24 months.
• Partner with internal leaders and business partners to understand hiring needs and provide strategic talent insights.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with leaders, agency partners, and direct candidates (both active and passive).
• Manage end-to-end recruitment, from demand identification to onboarding.
• Conduct proactive sourcing, building diverse talent pools and talent pipelines to address key skill areas and anticipated demand.
• Support internal talent mobility and identify opportunities for internal career progression.
• Anticipate hiring challenges, implementing proactive solutions to ensure effective demand management and timely fulfilment.
• Leverage various sourcing channels, with a focus on direct sourcing, to identify and engage prospective candidates.
• Ensure salary offers align with defined ranges and manage approvals and confidential negotiations.
• Oversee background checks, references, and assessments where required.
• Provide market intelligence and data insights to drive informed hiring decisions.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of recruitment regulations, ensuring compliance.
• Stay informed on evolving talent acquisition strategies, tools, and best practices.
• Build a strong external network, attending industry events to expand the talent pipeline.

- Employer Brand, Diversity and Inclusion

• Embed employer brand and culture into all recruitment activities.
• Ensure a best-in-class candidate experience from recruitment through onboarding.
• Champion diversity and inclusion, ensuring underrepresented groups are well-represented in hiring decisions.
• Coach hiring managers on inclusive hiring best practices.
• Develop proactive, pipeline-led hiring strategies to support diverse hiring in competitive markets.

- Talent Acquisition Service Delivery

• Work within agreed SLAs, ensuring agility to meet evolving business needs.
• Take timely action to address SLA breaches or unexpected business demands.
• Ensure data accuracy and system integrity for all recruitment records.
• Manage third-party suppliers to ensure optimal service delivery.
• Continuously improve recruitment processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide meaningful recruitment insights and market intelligence to inform hiring decisions.
• Monitor and manage recruitment budgets, including attraction, agency, and third-party costs.

 

Key Competencies and Experience

• In-depth expertise and curiosity in all areas of Talent Acquisition especially culture and business transformation and Diversity, Equi