Global TA Operations & Change Manager

Global TA Operations & Change Manager

Hybrid - minimum 3 days on site; Full Time.

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Global TA Operations & Change Manager to join the Resourcing Services Team in Derby. We are looking for a leader who has a passion for recruitment excellence.

This role will partner across our global team and with our outsourced service providers to ensure effective governance, policy adherence and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and governing best practice through the end-to-end recruitment processes, reporting, compliance and policy management.
• Engaging, developing and managing successful operational customer and stakeholder relationships both globally and regionally, including first point of contact for operational recruitment escalations & issue resolution.
• Establishing an effective and agile governance model which drives continuous improvement programmes from identification through to implementation and stabilisation.
• Effective partnership with our regional recruitment outsourced provision, including responsibility for the development, evolution and management of market leading service level agreements and performance indicators.
• Recruitment operations performance improvement programme lead when required.
• Partnering with Procurement to ensure effective supplier compliance against our global contract of services with a regional lens, including expansion or reduction of services, commerciality and ROI.
• Governance of operational and legislative compliance including export control, GDPR, data protection etc., and operational risk management and maintenance of risk register.
• Partnership and collaboration to support strategic change programmes in support of our 2030 People Goals.
• Partnering with broader GBS colleagues including People Services teams, Operations, Transformation and HRIS team to lead the operationalisation of GBS strategy through the end-to-end recruitment processes. Examples may include Workday optimisation, ServiceNow provision, Engine Room development.

Preferred Requirements

• Extensive Talent Acquisition experience in a complex, global, matrixed environment.
• Strong knowledge of operational talent acquisition best practice, business assurance processes, policy management, legislation and compliance.
• Strong leadership experience in a Talent Acquisition organisation.
• Previous experience of successfully managing relationships with recruitment outsource providers.
• Understanding of permanent and contingent hire processes, policies and legislation.
• Technical and operational expertise of RPO contract management & negotiation, key performance indicators/service level agreements, commercial management and ROI, RPO governance best practice & supplier negotiation.
• Commitment to delivering the best customer experience through talent acquisition processes.
• Broad change management & project management capability.
• Demonstrable experience of working collaboratively to deliver change across a global environment.
• Well developed customer and relationship management skills, including credibility and influencing skills.
• Excellent analytical skills - ability to provide key meaningful insights and drive change through a value led approach.
• Continual commitment to personal learning, demonstrated ability to build on learning and share within the broader TA function.
• Strong external recruitment knowledge & network.
• Leading globally dispersed teams.
• Experience using and developing processes using the Workday HRIS/ATS.
• Experience implementing new technology into Talent Acquisition processes.
• Lean Six Sigma certified.
• Early Careers recruitment experience both transactional and campaign management.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave.
• Retirement savings through the Rolls Royce Retirement Savings Trust.
• Group life assurance providing a lump sum benefit if you die while employed by Rolls Royce Group.
• Income protection providing an income in the event of illness or injury.
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Rolls Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Closing date: 26th July 2026.