Talent Acquisition Partner

Kpler • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Kpler is seeking a proactive, research-driven, and highly organised Talent Acquisition Partner to own sourcing and develop talent pipelines supporting the company’s global growth. The role identifies, engages, and nurtures candidates across regions and functions, and partners with hiring managers to turn market insight into a steady flow of qualified candidate conversations.

The Talent Acquisition Partner owns sourcing for a variety of roles and functions, conducts market mapping and talent landscape analysis, and designs sourcing strategies across LinkedIn Recruiter, professional communities, and other channels. The role also builds long-term talent pools and nurture campaigns for critical and niche roles, conducts initial screening conversations, tracks sourcing metrics, tests new tools and techniques, and supports employer branding and a consistent candidate experience across regions.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of Talent Acquisition experience, ideally in scale-ups, SaaS, or fast-paced technology environments.
• Demonstrated success with proactive sourcing across functions and seniority levels, including hard-to-fill and niche roles in high-growth environments.
• Advanced expertise in sourcing techniques and tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter and ATS/CRM platforms.
• Strong market-mapping and research skills, with the ability to turn market insights into actionable pipelines.
• Excellent written communication skills and demonstrated ability to write outreach that receives responses.
• Comfort working in complex, scaling, and global environments.
• Experience partnering with hiring managers and recruiters and influencing stakeholders on sourcing strategy.
• Data-driven approach and ability to interpret sourcing metrics and optimise accordingly.
• Bias for action, autonomy, and a high sense of urgency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience sourcing across multiple regions, including EMEA and APAC.
• Experience sourcing in niche markets such as commodities, energy, maritime, data, engineering, and analytics.
• Experience with employer branding or recruitment marketing, including content, campaigns, talent communities, or social presence.

Responsibilities

• Own proactive sourcing across a variety of roles and functions, generating a consistent flow of qualified, engaged candidates.
• Conduct market mapping and talent landscape analysis, identifying where target talent is located and sharing insights with recruiters and hiring managers.
• Design and refine advanced searches and sourcing strategies across LinkedIn Recruiter, professional communities, and other channels.
• Create personalised outreach and multi-touch engagement sequences to engage passive candidates.
• Build and maintain long-term talent pools and nurture campaigns for critical and niche roles in commodities, energy, maritime, data, and engineering.
• Partner with hiring managers from intake onwards to calibrate candidate profiles, advise on market availability, and agree on sourcing strategies.
• Conduct initial screening conversations to qualify and engage candidates before handing them over to recruiters and hiring managers.
• Track and report sourcing metrics, including response rates, pipeline conversion, source of hire, and pipeline diversity, and use results to optimise sourcing channels.
• Test new sourcing tools, channels, and techniques, and share best practices to improve sourcing capability across the People team.
• Support employer branding initiatives by shaping outreach messaging and candidate-facing content that reflects Kpler’s market perception.
• Collaborate with the broader People team to provide a consistent, high-quality candidate experience across regions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed