Recruitment and Talent Advisor

Position Overview

We are seeking a driven and proactive Recruitment Advisor to support our offices in Europe and Asia. This role sits within a seven-person team covering HR, Recruitment, and Learning & Development and will report into the Recruitment and L&D Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with local hiring managers to attract, source, and progress candidates for billable and non‑billable positions.
• Develop excellent working relationships with local offices, advising on recruitment best practices.
• Maintain our applicant tracking system (Workday) and all recruitment filing systems.
• Maintain and refine talent planning and recruitment forecasting models.
• Analyse headcount data to identify trends, capacity constraints, and hiring requirements.
• Support the alignment of hiring plans with business needs and forecasted demand across billable and non‑billable functions.
• Extract and validate headcount and recruitment data from Workday.
• Deliver cyclical reporting with consistency and precision alongside the HR team.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of reporting methodologies and data integrity.
• Draft and refine job descriptions to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with Compass Lexecon’s positioning.
• Support employer branding efforts aimed at attracting high‑calibre billable and non‑billable talent.
• Manage the recruitment inbox, responding to candidate and stakeholder queries in a timely and professional manner.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews and recruitment events, ensuring an efficient recruitment process.
• Provide broader support across the HR and Learning & Development teams, contributing to team initiatives and wider people activities across the region.

Experience Required

• Experience supporting lateral recruitment activity across multiple locations and stakeholder groups within a professional services environment.
• Experience working with headcount reporting, workforce planning, recruitment analytics, or talent data.
• Experience building and maintaining reporting models and analysing data trends.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems and HR platforms, preferably Workday.
• Experience using AI tools (CoPilot, Claude, Lama and Chat GPT) and working with data in Power BI and Excel would be advantageous.

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent team skills. Supports colleagues and actively seeks to collaborate on projects.
• Advanced IT skills, with the ability to work confidently with large and complex datasets.
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to deliver accurate and high quality work.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders across multiple offices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive and adaptable approach, with a willingness to challenge the status quo.