Executive Recruitment Researcher

Job Title: Executive Recruitment Researcher

Salary - Circa £40k+ TfL benefits

Band: 2

Type - TfL Permanent

Location – Palestra/Hybrid 

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Our city. Made better by you

TfL is a place that’s open to your ideas. Where you can make a tangible impact and see the positive results of your work on the people and places around you. It’s a place where you can thrive and achieve. Where you’re encouraged and enabled and empowered to feel pride in the work you do. The clue is in the name, really. We work together for a better London. A better place for everyone. Constantly improving and enhancing how we operate to shape a city of the future.  

Job Purpose

At TfL, we keep London moving, working, and growing every day, with over 30 million journeys each day. We are constantly innovating London with a strong purpose on well-being, including healthy streets and healthy people, a great public transport experience and new homes and jobs. The way we operate and set our global standards to be one of the world’s most integrated transport cities requires leaders who can help us evolve further.

The Talent Acquisition Team require an Executive Researcher/Recruiter to join the  team. You will support and drive hiring of the most inclusive and diverse leaders of TfL. Working closely with experienced Senior Executive Recruiters you will help identify and attract the best talent for a wide range of pivotal roles right across London.

You’ll join an established and multi award-winning team to help drive transformation by bringing your innovative and curious mind-set, expertise and cutting-edge approaches to the table and your ability to create a ‘uniquely TfL’ recruitment and on-boarding experience for senior level talent. Your mission will be to attract top talent for TfL using your insights through internal and global talent mapping exercises.

This will include working closely with strategic workforce planning, talent management and executive leadership to gain an understanding of the business unit and TfL’s long-term strategy, identifying critical roles and begin building end to end executive talent acquisition strategies to find top talent. You will contribute to the market mapping and talent intelligence process for senior leadership levels across London, delivering successful recruitment activity to ensure TfL has the right talent, with the right skills, values, and behaviours, in an inclusive organisation, representative of London, where all talents can thrive, delivering our business plan.

You will bring your bold, creative, and strong talent identification and market intelligence perspective of the market to senior hiring leaders, help build and transform future thinking of talent, bringing to life our diversity and inclusion ambitions using our core, close and creative techniques and transferable skills and industries.

Through strong planning and persistent networking efforts you’ll be recognised as the talent expert establishing credibility in knowing where talent sits, which employers and industry and where they sit though pre-existing relationships. Your talent expertise will also include internal top talented employees and where their potential career might take them in future at TfL.  

You’ll directly wield candidate pipelines internal and external to provide a comprehensive view of talent using creative efforts and positioning TfL as a career destination for each and every senior role.

You’ll be an expert problem solver and creative thinker. 

The Talent team is made up of Organisational Development (Talent Management), Early Careers Recruitment and Development, Future Skills, GLA Collaboration as well as Talent Acquisition and Executive hiring. Each area plays a unique and critical role in defining a core arm of the strategy that enables TfL to attract, retain and develop the right levels of talent across a very large matrix organisation. 

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience of providing end to end research to experienced executive recruiters (essential) 
• Experience recruiting across complex business operations within a large matrix organisation across all disciplines
• Proven success of executive level end to end recruitment processes and research techniques (essential) 
• A strong research background, sourcing, market mapping and or talent profiling expertise and headhunting (essential)
• Contribution of search strategies that are ambitious and future focused (essential)
• Closely monitor specific markets using research techniques (essential)
• Strong Excel experience
• Understanding of external developments and best practice in talent and resourcing
• Must be comfortable presenting
• Experience using Success Factor and or/Taleo or other ATS (essential) 
• Project management experience (essential)

Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process

• Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV (no more than 2 A4 pages Arial 11) and cover letter (1 page of A4, Arial 11) in addition to detailing your salary expectations.
• Applications without cover letters may not be considered.

• Applications made to this role within the last 6 months of advertising will also not be considered.

The closing date for applications is Friday 23 January 2026 @ 23:59hrs

We may close the advert earlier should we receive a high volume of applications.

Sponsorship

TfL is currently unable to provide sponsorship to candidates for this role. TfL keeps its approach under review in line with changes to UK immigration rules. We are also unable to provide advice or guidance on individual immigration queries and advise candidates to check the Government’s website for further information. 

Benefits 

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

•    Final salary pension scheme 
•    Free travel for you on the TfL network 
•    Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
•    30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
•    TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow.
•    Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional) 
•    Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
•    Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
•    Discounted Eurostar travel