Key Account Manager jobs in United Kingdom

Posted Jan 7, 2026

Account Executive role focused on delivering the complete recruitment lifecycle, managing requisitions across functional areas and seniority levels, and building strategic relationships with hiring managers and clients in the Newcastle region.

Talento offers a unique bundling of solutions that transforms the recruiting experience into a strategic partnership. Our team empowers associates with the mindset and tools of a human capital advisor, enabling impactful client support across organization‑wide talent needs.

As an Associate Account Executive, you will manage a diverse requisition load, cultivate client relationships, source and evaluate candidates, and leverage data‑driven insights to optimize hiring strategies. You will orchestrate the end‑to‑end recruiting process from initial outreach to aftercare, supporting clients with regular market intelligence and metrics.

Proactively source top talent, develop business relations from the first outreach, and maintain long‑standing client partnerships, ensuring the delivery of high‑quality hires.

• Manage a diverse requisition load across all functional areas and seniority levels, ensuring efficient hiring strategies.
• Reach out to prospective clients within your market focus to develop brand awareness and arrange meetings to sell our tailored service and establish job requirements.
• Serve as the go‑to person for hiring managers throughout the duration of active hiring and thereafter to develop comprehensive and long‑standing business relationships.
• Conduct in‑depth interviews, assess candidate qualifications, and make recommendations based on evaluations.
• Oversee the entire recruiting process, integrating customer requirements through sourcing, outreach, screening, submission, interviews, feedback all the way to offer and aftercare.
• Act as a partner to your client to ensure full understanding of requirements with weekly check‑ins to grow your business account.
• Support the development of sourcing plans and tactics with other Associates, researchers, and client managers.
• Build and maintain external networks by actively sourcing both active and passive candidates and prospective clients.
• Conduct structured interviews and document candidate screening through ATS.
• Use data to analyze, track, and support metrics for stakeholders.
• Communicate search progress, tactics, market talent supply, and candidate fit with hiring managers during meetings.
• Create search overview reports for clients, including market intelligence and activity summaries.
• Compile weekly lifecycle metrics and achievement against goals.
• Participate in cross‑functional projects as needed.

• Passionate about enabling businesses through human capital.
• 0–2 years of recruiting or sales experience.
• Experience in sourcing and candidate assessment would be ideal.
• Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems and sourcing tools including LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.
• Driven by collaboration, learning, doing the right thing and quality human interaction.
• Pride in delivering quality work, every time.
• Fluent in English. Spanish preferred.
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

• Innovative, creative and passionate about enabling businesses through talent acquisition.
• Pride in delivering quality work, every time with strong business acumen and ability to learn, retain and apply learned concepts.
• Strong solutions mindset: Comfortable working in an environment that requires strong deliverables and the ability to identify problems and drive appropriate actions; highly organized and process oriented.
• Bias for action, strong work ethic, and desire to achieve excellence.
• Enthusiastic team player with a strong drive to ensure a positive work environment. Cares about others' success deeply.
• Agile; can pivot priorities with ease while staying calm.
• Comfortable with high volume workload and not afraid to “roll up your sleeves”.
• Relentless seeker of talent with a deep network driven by collaboration, learning, doing the right thing and quality human interaction.

• Culture focused on advancing your career while disrupting an industry and providing unrivaled service; rapid advancement and promotion opportunities based on merit.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Full tailored learning and development training program.
• Tiered commission structure with uncapped earning potential.

Talento is a high‑growth talent & organizational solutions firm. Founded in 2017, we support 65+ enterprises, middle market and high‑growth startups in 15 countries. We deliver recruiting, contingent workforce management, employer branding, strategy, transformation, organization design & implementation, career pathing, outplacement, and leadership development solutions.

Talento Human Capital (HC) is an equal opportunity employer, people are at the center of what we do!

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