Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

About Dune Advisors

Dune Advisors is a boutique management consulting firm based in London, delivering strategic advisory, business transformation and transaction support to clients across Life Sciences, CPG and Manufacturing. We operate a senior-led delivery model, small, high-calibre teams working directly with clients on complex, high-stakes engagements. At around 20 people today, every hire meaningfully shapes who we are. We are looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition & Management Specialist to build the people engine behind our next stage of growth, someone who can own everything from sourcing our next Director to shaping how we onboard, develop and retain the people we hire.

The Role

This is a hands-on, end-to-end talent role, not a purely transactional recruitment function, and not limited to acquisition. You'll be the single owner of talent at Dune: sourcing and hiring exceptional consultants, and then helping build the frameworks that keep them, develop them, and set them up to succeed. In a firm our size, that means you'll be doing the sourcing yourself, running the process yourself, and also thinking about performance, career pathing and culture not delegating pieces of it to a larger team. You'll work directly with senior leaders, with real influence over hiring decisions and the shape of our talent strategy. This is a 6 month fixed-term contract role.

What You'll Do

Talent Acquisition

• Own end-to-end recruitment for consulting and business services roles at every level, from direct sourcing through offer and close.
• Build and execute proactive sourcing strategies to engage passive, high-calibre candidates from consulting firms, industry and adjacent sectors.
• Design and continuously improve our interview process and assessment methodology.
• Lead offer management and compensation negotiations.
• Manage relationships with external recruitment partners
• Build our employer brand and candidate pipeline through digital channels.

Talent Management

• Design and run onboarding so new joiners ramp quickly and land well culturally.
• Support performance management processes, feedback cycles and career development frameworks appropriate to a firm our size.
• Partner with leadership on workforce planning, succession thinking and retention strategy.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for consultants on career and development questions.

Insight & Operations

• Provide market intelligence on talent availability, compensation benchmarks and competitor activity.
• Build recruitment and people reporting to track pipeline health, hiring performance and retention metrics.
• Manage recruitment technology and candidate data (ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, etc.), improving systems and ways of working as we grow.

What We Are Looking For

• 6+ years of experience across talent acquisition and talent management, within top tier management consulting firms.
• Proven track record owning end-to-end recruitment for experienced hires, including direct sourcing of passive candidates.
• Experience with broader talent management: onboarding, performance frameworks, career development or retention even if gained in a smaller or generalist HR/People role.
• Comfort operating without a large team or established infrastructure; you'll be building processes, not just running existing ones.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to partner with and influence Partners and senior leaders.
• Commercial awareness of the consulting and professional services talent landscape.
• Comfort with data and able to build simple reporting and translate it into recommendations.
• Familiarity with an ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter and recruitment analytics tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• A self-starter who's genuinely energized by building something from scratch in a small, fast-moving firm.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

What Makes Dune Advisors Different

✅ Real ownership — you'll build the talent function, not inherit one

✅ High-calibre bar — help attract exceptional talent to a firm punching well above its size

✅ People-first culture — collaborative, respectful, built on trust

✅ Agile by design — small teams, fast decisions, visible impact

✅ Growth stage — join at an inflection point and shape the growth trajectory

✅ Flexibility — hybrid working, competitive compensation