Strategic Talent Partner - Technology & Corporate Functions

Job title: Strategic Talent Partner - Technology & Corporate Functions

About the Role Burberry is seeking a Strategic Talent Partner to partner with Technology and Corporate Functions leaders to attract, engage and hire exceptional talent. You will provide market intelligence, workforce planning support and innovative talent solutions to enable business transformation and growth, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience and strengthening Burberry as an employer of choice.

What You'll Do

• Partner with senior leaders, HR Business Partners and stakeholders to translate workforce plans into effective hiring strategies.
• Provide external market intelligence, talent mapping, competitor insights and compensation benchmarking to influence hiring decisions.
• Support succession planning and organisational design discussions through talent market expertise.
• Advise leaders on diverse hiring strategies to build high-performing and inclusive teams.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment for Technology and Corporate Functions, including: Technology & Digital, Data & Analytics, Information Security, Enterprise Platforms, Architecture & Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs & Communications, Strategy, Legal & Compliance.
• Deliver a premium candidate experience while balancing quality, speed and stakeholder expectations.
• Lead complex, niche and leadership hiring activity through proactive talent mapping and targeted search.
• Develop and present talent market research, competitor analysis and hiring trends to business leaders. Identify future capability gaps and recommend sourcing approaches.
• Build talent communities for critical and emerging skill areas, including Data, AI, Cyber Security and Enterprise Technology.
• Act as a Burberry ambassador within Technology and Corporate Functions talent markets. Build external networks through industry events, professional associations and specialist communities.
• Leverage innovative sourcing channels and recruitment technologies to engage passive talent.
• Ensure recruitment activity complies with Burberry policies, employment legislation and governance requirements. Maintain accurate recruitment data and reporting through ATS and talent analytics platforms. Drive continuous improvement across recruitment processes, candidate experience and hiring manager satisfaction.
• Champion equitable hiring practices and diverse candidate pipelines. Partner with stakeholders to ensure inclusive assessment and selection processes. Support Burberry's commitment to building diverse and representative teams across all functions.

What We're Looking For

• Experience recruiting across Technology and/or Corporate Functions within a global organisation.
• Proven success hiring for specialist technology disciplines, including Engineering, Data, Architecture, Cyber Security, Product and Enterprise Platforms.
• Experience supporting Corporate Functions such as Finance, HR, Strategy, Corporate Affairs or Legal.
• Strong executive stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and advise senior leadership teams.
• Demonstrated ability to utilise talent intelligence, market insights and data to shape hiring decisions.
• Strong sourcing capability across both active and passive talent markets.
• Knowledge of talent mapping, workforce planning and executive hiring methodologies.
• Experience using ATS platforms, recruitment technologies, LinkedIn Recruiter and talent analytics tools.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Commercially minded, proactive and solutions-focused with a passion for delivering exceptional talent outcomes.