About Us

Job Title:

Principal Talent Acquisition Specialist - PwC

Location:

Birmingham - Client site - 3 days p/w, 2 days WFH

Employment Type:

Permanent

Working hours/ Shifts:

Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Start Date

15th September 2025

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation.

Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Are you ready to be a strategic partner in talent acquisition?

As a Principal Talent Acquisition Specialist, you'll play a pivotal end-to-end role in delivering exceptional recruitment services and ensuring our clients secure top talent.

You'll be the custodian of candidate quality and the hiring manager experience, guiding clients to fill their vacancies to target start dates while consistently meeting quality thresholds, SLAs, and KPIs.

Leveraging your expertise, you'll utilise data-led sourcing insights to craft optimal hiring strategies for each requisition. This means diving deep into data, analyzing historic hiring trends, and conducting thorough market analysis to pinpoint the best talent available.

This isn't just about filling roles; it's about strategic impact. You'll be aligned with high-touch client business units or stakeholder groups that demand extra attention. This often includes navigating more challenging or senior stakeholder dynamics, tackling complex or hard-to-fill roles, or focusing on positions with significant strategic importance. In some cases, you might even be the sole AMS resource in a specific geographical location, taking on an even broader scope.

If you're passionate about data-driven recruitment and thrive in a high-impact, client-facing role, this is your opportunity to excel.

Key Accountabilities

Recruitment Delivery

• Execute comprehensive candidate sourcing and attraction plans, leveraging internal talent pools (ATS, CRM, alumni).
• Ensure recruitment services meet contractual obligations and client SLAs.
• Lead hiring strategy meetings to define recruitment plans with hiring managers.
• Utilize data-led insights from historical trends and market analysis to determine optimal hiring strategies.
• Comply with review CVs and screen candidates, presenting quality shortlists and coaching hiring managers through selection.
• Deliver an excellent candidate experience from initial contact to start date.
• Drive hiring decisions and lead offer negotiations.
• Address stakeholder issues and share knowledge to enhance recruitment.
• Proactively build talent pipelines for future hiring needs.

Technology & Compliance

• Track candidate status and requisition updates in relevant systems.
• Identify and flag scope creep for contractual management.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and track risks.

Stakeholder Relationships

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client hiring managers and key stakeholders.
• Collaborate seamlessly with Talent Sourcing, Insights, Talent Attraction, and Administration teams.

Skills & Experience

• Experience in the Financial Services or Professional Business Services
• Specialises in hiring roles across Finance, Tax, Legal, Audit, Risk, and Consulting.
• Skilled at proactive stakeholder engagement and management, both remote and in-person.
• Effectively positions solutions and manages expectations for senior clients, influencing their decisions.
• Demonstrates strong commercial acumen and subject matter expertise, linking client business and talent strategies to outcomes.
• Utilises market intelligence and trend analysis to provide valuable client insights.
• Consistently meets demanding recruitment targets and deadlines.
• Developed and executed comprehensive end-to-end recruitment campaign strategies.
• Expert in diverse candidate sourcing methods, including digital and traditional channels.
• Effectively operates within a complex matrix organisation.
• Experienced with recruitment technology and database management.
• Possesses a working knowledge of relevant employment legislation.
• Exhibits a strategic mindset, capable of long-term planning and big-picture thinking.
• Agile and positive amidst change, adapting quickly to new demands and uncertainties.
• Collaborates effectively in virtual team environments.
• Highly conscientious, with a focus on detail, compliance, and punctuality.

Other

Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. Together, it means more insight and expertise for our clients and more exciting career paths and experiences for us.

Apart from our benefits package, you'll also get to enjoy the flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that works best for you. We just focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other however you choose.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email Talent@weareams.com or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.