Talent Acquisition & People Partner – UKI & EMEA

The role

This role leads end-to-end recruitment across Retail and Corporate functions in the UK, Ireland, and EMEA. You will partner with hiring managers to secure talent and contribute to broader people initiatives like employee relations and performance management.

What you will do

• Manage end-to-end recruitment across UKI & EMEA for Retail and Corporate vacancies.
• Take ownership of the full recruitment lifecycle including sourcing, screening, and interviewing.
• Develop proactive sourcing strategies to build talent pipelines.
• Coach and support hiring managers on recruitment best practice.
• Track recruitment activity and key metrics using data.
• Gather feedback from candidates, employees, and hiring managers.
• Support employee relations matters including performance, capability, conduct, and absence management.
• Provide guidance to managers on day-to-day people matters.
• Support learning and development initiatives.
• Support regional HR projects and initiatives.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment or a broad HR role with significant recruitment responsibility.
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end recruitment across diverse functions and seniority levels.
• Confident in partnering with and influencing hiring managers, constructively challenging decisions and coaching on recruitment best practices.
• Sound knowledge of compensation, benefits and market benchmarking.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple vacancies, stakeholders and projects simultaneously.
• A collaborative, solutions-focused approach and willingness to support the broader HR agenda.
• Must be able to work from the London Office at least 60% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience in beauty, luxury, retail, fashion or a similar fast-paced consumer industry
• Exposure to broader HR activities, such as employee relations, performance management or HR projects

About the company

Hourglass Cosmetics is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand that became part of the Unilever Prestige division in 2017. It is globally available in 32 markets.