Talent Acquisition Specialist, Digital

Recruiter: Hansa Bhawnani

Hiring Manager: Ritesh Agarwal

Career Grade: D

About the role

We’re looking for a forward-thinking Talent Acquisition Specialist to drive hiring across Digital, Data, AI, Engineering, and Technology functions. This role will partner closely with business leaders to shape hiring strategies, build future-focused talent pipelines, and attract niche digital talent in a highly competitive market.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading end-to-end hiring across digital, engineering, AI, cloud, and transformation portfolios
• Building proactive talent pipelines for niche and emerging technology skills
• Providing market intelligence on talent availability, competitor hiring trends, and compensation benchmarks
• Partnering with business leaders to define strategic hiring plans and workforce priorities
• Leveraging data, sourcing intelligence, and recruitment technology to improve hiring outcomes
• Driving inclusive hiring and strong candidate experience across the recruitment lifecycle
• Supporting employer branding and digital talent attraction initiatives

What You’ll Bring

• Strong understanding of technology and digital talent landscapes
• Strategic sourcing and talent mapping capability for niche skill areas
• Strong stakeholder management and consultative influencing skills
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to turn insights into hiring actions
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving transformation environment

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience in GCCs, telecom, technology, consulting, or digital-first organizations
• Exposure to recruitment transformation or TA automation initiatives
• Understanding of emerging technology trends and future digital capability requirements
• MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification preferred

Essential Skills / Experience

• 8–10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience with significant exposure to technology or digital hiring
• Experience hiring across engineering, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data, or product roles
• Expertise in market mapping, workforce planning, and strategic talent pipelining
• Strong experience using ATS, CRM, LinkedIn Talent Insights, and recruitment analytics tools
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders through market intelligence and hiring insights

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.