Senior Talent Partner, Soar With Us
£51-60k
2+ days a week in office (Central London (Chalk Farm) )
Digital marketing strategies for eCommerce
Open for applications
Digital marketing strategies for eCommerce
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£51-60k
2+ days a week in office (Central London (Chalk Farm) )
21-100 employees
Company mission
To become UK's market-leading DTC eCommerce growth agency for premium brands.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in in-house talent, with meaningful agency, creative, or marketing services experience
- Proven end-to-end hiring across creative, strategy, account, and production
- Strong stakeholder credibility
- Commercial instinct where you think about hiring in terms of business impact, not reqs closed
- Excellent communicator. Candidate rejections, C Suite briefs, pipeline reports
- Comfortable using AI as part of your day-to-day workflow
Desirable
- Experience bringing recruitment in-house from an agency model
- Employer brand activation or talent marketing background
- Exposure to competency frameworks, career ladders, or succession planning
- DTC, e-commerce, or paid social agency experience
What the job involves
- Reports to: Head of Performance and Development
- We're looking for a senior talent operator to build Soar Group's in-house hiring function
- Manage the transition from external recruitment to a fully in-house function — building on the foundation our partner has put in place
- Own end-to-end recruitment across the group: briefing, sourcing, screening, assessment, offer
- Collaborate closely with hiring managers to define role requirements and build effective interview processes
- Act as a genuine advisor to founders and hiring managers — challenging job designs, shaping scorecards, making the call on fit
- Lead workforce planning conversations with the SMT, translating business strategy into hiring priorities
- Develop and execute comprehensive talent acquisition strategies including events and early careers
- Build and maintain talent pools for our highest-leverage roles
- Own recruitment analytics, benchmarking, and pipeline reporting
- Set and enforce assessment standards across the group
- Develop a system for and champion a culture of internal mobility
- Activate our employer brand - telling the Soar Group story in a way that earns the attention of the people we want
- Be a visible culture carrier
- Contribute to group-wide rituals - All Hands, the Creative Strategy Incubator, and beyond
- Build trust with founders and SMT
- In your first 3 months:
- You've built trust with every founder and hiring manager across the group
- You've established a clear operating rhythm: briefing standards, pipeline reviews, visible presence
- You're owning at least 75% of live hiring directly, with a plan to scale to full ownership
- By month 6:
- You own end-to-end hiring, with measurable improvements in time-to-hire, quality-of-hire, and hiring manager satisfaction
- You've built functioning talent pools for our top three highest-leverage roles
- You're a trusted voice at the senior management table
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The marketing landscape for D2C brands is fast-paced and competitive, especially for newcomers in the space. Soar With Us helps these brands thrive by offering omnichannel marketing solutions across customer acquisition and retention and brand recognition.
As an eCommerce marketing agency, Soar With Us has benefited from its partnerships with Meta and TikTok. The latter is becoming an especially powerful method for brand elevation and product advertising thanks to its wide reach and viewership. It also helps brands scale and discover new customers on TikTok and beyond through its ARC marketing system, and even covers Google and Meta advertising.
In 2024, Soar With Us acquired London-based competitor Hambi Media. After a year of partnering as D2C marketing agencies, Hambi will merge into Soar With Us’s group structure, expanding the former’s reach exponentially.
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Company benefits
- 25 paid days holiday: (public holidays included on top of this) plus the ability to build up your holiday allowance.
- Life insurance: Including access to a range of health and wellbeing services.
- Vitality private health insurance: Covers the cost of private treatment (and get 50% off selected gym memberships).
- Simply health cash plan: Cash towards some medical expenses like dental, eye care, and physiotherapy.
- Company pension: We'll help look after future you with monthly pension contributions.
- Hybrid working: You've got the option to be in office, work remote, or a mixture of the two.
- Work abroad scheme: Work abroad for up to 30 days at a time.
Company HQ
The Calls, Leeds, UK
Leadership
Olly Hudson
(Founder)Olly is also the Co-Founder of For You Advertising and Launch With Us. Previously, he was the CMO at JAQ Group Holdings and a Digital Marketing Intern at Prospect Path.
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