American Express

Talent Acquisition Partner - UK/EMEA (Contractor)

Posted On

June 16, 2025

Location

Gurugram, Haryana

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

July 6, 2025

Job Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you will be responsible for strategically executing the end-to-end recruitment and selection process for American Express roles in the UK, while ensuring superior candidate and Hiring Leader experience. You will execute the sourcing, screening applicants, shortlisting, assessment, interview, and offer processes to acquire the best candidates with speed and quality. You will be a talent champion who can actively stay connected to a robust pipeline of candidates, maintain long-term candidate relationships, and energetically sell the role and the American Express brand. Reporting into the Talent Acquisition Manager, you will assist in driving best practice across the recruitment lifecycle.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Here’s just some of what you’ll do in this role

Demonstrate business acumen and understanding of American Express lines of business
Communicate trends, market intelligence insights and provide proactive recruitment guidance to drive future recruitment activity
Be a subject matter expert in recruitment at American Express with clear understanding of the global recruitment process and policy
Own full lifecycle recruitment activities, ensuring superior candidate experience, while staying abreast of new hiring practices and trends
Enact broader Global Talent Acquisition recruitment strategy to ensure delivery of qualified and diverse talent
Master operational excellence by leveraging available technologies to maximize efficiency and quality to accomplish the delivery plan
Source and identify talent through traditional and non-traditional sourcing channels, while building and maintaining robust active and passive candidate pipeline
Use specialist market/industry knowledge to assist with development and ongoing management of pre-qualified candidate talent pools using CRM
Recommend and drive improvements to the local sourcing strategy and pipeline by actively interfacing with Talent Acquisition Manager
Work with Hiring Leaders to manage hiring volume and headcount goals, gathers key input for candidate slates
Update and post jobs, manage talent pools and requisitions, and disposition candidates
Conduct first round interview, intake meetings, interview debriefs, and review assessments. Provide feedback on candidates and influence hiring decisions
Structure new offers, working with compensation team to determine appropriate packages, negotiate offer, and make offer edits as necessary
Partner with employee relations, legal, background verification team, etc. to provide end-to-end service to candidates and Hiring Leaders
Communicate proactively and in a timely manner with candidates, providing details on the selection process and Hiring Leader feedback
As directed by Talent Acquisition Manager assist with or lead development and delivery of ad-hoc or recruitment projects and initiatives
Support recruitment activities in EMEA markets outside UK as required

Minimum Qualifications

Recruitment experience in a fast-paced global recruitment environment handling end-to-end recruitment activities, which includes talent branding, sourcing strategies, selection process, candidate experience, data management, and all the related responsibilities
Fluency in English
Prior experience in developing and maintaining positive relationships with key collaborators, hiring managers, and HR colleagues
Experience in Applicant Tracking Systems and other recruitment tools, technologies, and platforms to improve process efficiencies
Outstanding assessment and interviewing skills; strong command of assessment and selection methodologies, instruments, and processes
Good knowledge of the recruiting landscape with the ability to produce external trends, market intelligence, and industry insights
Proven ability to listen, understand, convey, and relate ideas, concepts, and issues clearly and confidently through all channels while having an awareness of environmental cues
Experience working in a team environment emphasizing group contributions
Ability to build relationships and sustain trust with people at all levels of an organization
Ability to execute multiple projects/tasks at the same time under strict timelines

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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