Talent Acquisition - Assistant Manager - Dublin (11 month FTC)

Talent Acquisition - Assistant Manager – Dublin (11 month FTC)

• Job Title: Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager
• Location: Dublin, Ireland
• Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: No
• Business Area: CBS (Core Business Services)

The opportunity

Are you ready to be at the heart of a fast-growing, dynamic environment? As a Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager, you will play a key role in shaping the future of EY by managing and driving recruitment delivery in full across multiple business areas while coaching and training junior recruiters, influencing workforce planning decisions, and driving operational excellence across the Talent Acquisition function. You will act as a trusted talent advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring recruitment strategies align with business priorities, market realities, and EY’s quality and compliance standards.

This is your chance to influence the recruitment agenda and be part of a team that is driving change and innovation across the business.

The purpose of this role is to drive end-to-end recruitment for EY Ireland, balancing speed and candidate experience with rigorous data and compliance standards. Success means healthy pipelines, fast but governed hiring decisions, strong stakeholder partnerships, operational excellence, and recruitment processes that meet EY’s quality and audit standards.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Operational excellence: Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring compliance and accurate data management across all recruitment systems. Identify operational bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions to improve recruitment performance and operational efficiency. Drive evaluation and selection processes, coaching interviewers and delivering tailored guidance where needed.
• Talent attraction and pipeline management: Monitor pipeline health, ageing requisitions, interview feedback compliance, hiring manager responsiveness and overall recruitment effectiveness, operating to a high standard with strong attention to detail. Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and future hiring needs, ensuring a proactive approach to workforce planning. Source top-tier talent using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, AI-driven tools, market insights and other digital sourcing platforms. Lead pre-screening conversations to evaluate candidate skills, experience and readiness for progression through the recruitment process.
• Team Accountability: Lead by example and coach junior recruiters, supporting onboarding, capability development and internal training as needed. Act as an escalation point for recruitment challenges, stakeholder concerns and candidate issues. Promote knowledge sharing, innovation and best practice across the team, helping to drive consistency and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Management & Talent Advisory: Partner with senior stakeholders to understand business priorities and talent needs, providing strategic consultation on workforce planning, talent market conditions, sourcing strategies and hiring risks. Build trusted relationships with senior business leaders and hiring managers, acting as a talent advisor and supporting informed hiring decisions. Challenge hiring assumptions constructively, providing candidate benchmarking, market insights and skills-based hiring recommendations. Drive accountability across hiring teams and teams/functions involved in recruitment and onboarding processes, ensuring adherence to agreed recruitment...

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