Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist focuses on ensure every candidate journey reflects virgin active’s culture, energy, and commitment to wellbeing.

What the role involves

• Ensure every candidate journey reflects Virgin Active’s culture, energy, and commitment to wellbeing.
• Delivering end-to-end direct recruitment for Personal Trainer and Group Exercise roles.
• Maintain strong talent pipelines to support current and future hiring needs across clubs.
• Ensure ATS systems and recruitment data are accurate, compliant, and up to date.
• Ability to manage 20-30 roles at one time.

Skills and requirements

• We take value in recruiting the very best team members who work behind the scenes to support our clubs in delivering a world-class member experience.
• Manage vacancies from brief through to offer, ensuring a seamless and engaging candidate experience.

Confirmed role details

• This is initially a 6-month fixed-term contract, with strong potential to become permanent based on performance and business need.
• 25 days (excluding bank holidays) annual leave, plus a Celebration Day – and we want you take them.
• Access to The Peoples Pension, with our contributions at 3%.
• Life Assurance 4x your salary – which we hope you will not need.

Candidate fit

• candidate communication, organisation, follow-up, and confidence handling recruitment processes

Additional role context

• Act as a trusted recruitment partner to hiring managers, providing advice on attraction strategy, role design, and selection.
• Minimum 2-3 years in Talen Acquisition or agency.
• We want you to love Virgin Active like we do, so you get discounts across Virgin active – everything from guest passes to 50% off PT sessions.