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Open nowPosted 139 days ago

Talent Researcher

dmg::media56 open roles

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13.7% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. dmg::media postings stay open a median of 39 days.

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  5. 37.8%30 days
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This job: posted 139 days ago

dmg::media median: 39 days open

The posting

Location: HSK, London

Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

About Us

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro and The i Paper, reach more than 24million people daily. In the UK alone, its brands reach over 10million people daily.

Its newsbrands are expert at getting to the bottom of the stories most relevant to our readers. To find out more about dmg media and its brands visit www.dmgmedia.co.uk.

About the Role

As a Talent Researcher, you will be the engine behind our proactive hiring strategy. Moving away from reactive recruitment, you will focus on deep-market intelligence and strategic talent mapping. Your goal is to build a robust internal pipeline for critical capabilities, significantly reducing our reliance on external search firms by identifying the best talent in the market before we even have a live vacancy.

The ideal candidate will possess a natural affinity for data and organisation, enjoying the puzzle of deconstructing organisational hierarchies to pinpoint exactly where top talent sits. Rather than just collecting names, often looking beyond our immediate sector to identify transferable skills in adjacent industries.

Being a strategic thinker is a must – you understand that talent acquisition is about more than filling vacancies, it’s about competitive advantage.

Main Responsibilities

  • Market Intelligence: Act as a subject matter expert on the talent landscape. Monitor industry trends, competitor news, and M&A activity to predict talent movements.
  • Talent Mapping: Systematically map out competitor organisations and adjacent industries. You will deconstruct team structures and identify key players within target departments.
  • Long-listing: Create high-quality long-lists for niche and critical roles, ensuring a diverse and highly skilled pool of "ready-now" and "ready-later" candidates.Competitor Analysis: Deep-dive into how our competitors are structured. Identify where top talent is moving and why, providing actionable insights to the TA team and Business Leaders.
  • Strategic Sourcing: Move beyond standard job boards to find "hidden" talent through social platforms, networking, and advanced Boolean techniques.
  • Cost Reduction: Strategically target roles that were previously outsourced to agencies, demonstrating a clear ROI by bringing further headhunting capabilities in-house.

Person Specification

  • Proven experience in a Research or Sourcing role (either in-house or within an executive search firm).
  • Expertise in Talent Mapping and Market Mapping is essential.
  • Advanced proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter and various market intelligence tools.
  • Ability to translate complex data and "org charts" into simple, visual reports for stakeholders.
  • A passion for head-hunting, finding the unfindable and engaging passive talent.
  • Solutions oriented and proactive: Spots opportunities to drive improvement and works to provide different solutions where needed. We welcome new ideas and suggestions.
  • Excellent communication, internally and with external talent.
  • Experience of Greenhouse & Workday (desirable).

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

  • 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
  • Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
  • Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.
  • DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
  • Subsidised canteen
  • Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
  • Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
  • Our Employee Assistance Programme
  • Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.

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