Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 22, 2026. Boots scores A on the Alion truth index.
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.
What You’ll Be Doing
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.
What You’ll Need to Have (Our Must-Haves)
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.
Where Your Brilliance Can Take You
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.
Rewards Designed for You
Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 12% company contribution)
Generous employee discounts for you and a family member
Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, 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 at http://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only.
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.
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. 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!