Head of Talent Acquisition (known internally as Talent Acquisition Business Partner)
SALARY: From £63,360 pa dependent on experience+ Annual Bonus + Excellent Benefits
LOCATION: Milton Keynes
HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.
HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Part-time 32 hours per week
CLOSING DATE: 23/10/2026 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.
At Volkswagen Financial Services UK, we're evolving how we attract, engage and hire talent. As our Head of Talent Acquisition (known internally as Talent Acquisition Business Partner), you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future workforce of our business while leading a high-performing Talent Acquisition team through an exciting period of change and continuous improvement.
This is far more than a recruitment role.
We're looking for a strategic HR and Talent Acquisition leader who can combine commercial thinking, workforce planning expertise and data-driven decision making to influence senior stakeholders and deliver meaningful business outcomes. You'll be equally comfortable developing long-term talent strategies, leading organisational change, improving processes and inspiring a team to achieve exceptional results.
What you'll be doing
As a key member of the HR Leadership Team, you'll lead the delivery of a best-in-class talent acquisition function that supports our current and future business needs. You'll work closely with senior leaders across the organisation to shape talent strategies, identify workforce challenges and deliver innovative solutions that help the business remain competitive in a rapidly changing market.
You’ll spend your time:
• Evolving and delivering a data-driven talent acquisition strategy aligned to business priorities and future workforce needs.
• Leading and motivating a talented talent acquisition team, creating a culture of continuous improvement, development and high performance.
• Using recruitment analytics, market intelligence and workforce insights to influence decision making and deliver measurable commercial value.
• Driving process improvement and transformation initiatives that enhance efficiency, candidate experience and hiring outcomes.
• Partnering with senior stakeholders to provide expert advice on recruitment, talent attraction and workforce planning.
• Shaping and delivering our Early Careers strategy, helping to build future talent pipelines across the organisation.
• Managing key supplier relationships, recruitment technology and external partnerships to ensure best practice and value for money.
• Championing diversity, equity and inclusion throughout our recruitment processes and attraction strategies.
• Collaboratively building a compelling employer brand that strengthens our ability to attract and retain top talent.
What you will bring to VWFS
You'll be an experienced talent acquisition or HR professional who understands how recruitment contributes to wider business success. Whilst you may have started your career in agency recruitment, you'll have significant experience operating within an in-house Talent Acquisition, HR or People function where you've partnered closely with senior stakeholders and influenced organisational outcomes.
We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:
• Experience leading and developing recruitment, talent acquisition or people teams.
• A strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational delivery.
• A proven track record of using data, insight and market intelligence to drive decision making and influence stakeholders.
• Experience leading change, improving processes and embedding new ways of working.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the credibility to engage and challenge senior leaders constructively.
• Strong understanding of modern talent acquisition practices, employer branding and candidate experience.
• Confidence working with recruitment technology, systems and workforce data.
• The ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on when required.
• A passion for developing people, building capability and creating high-performing teams.
What’s in it for you?
Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance and fuel card
OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.