Senior Recruiter

About the Role & Team

Due to a recent promotion in the team, we're looking for a Senior Recruiter to join our lean, high-performing team, supporting our UK&I Corporate business area. In this role, you’ll be at the heart of Disney’s talent strategy—sourcing top-tier candidates, shaping hiring decisions, and driving an exceptional candidate experience. Partnering closely with hiring managers, you’ll take a consultative approach, influencing and advising on the best recruitment strategies. You'll also play a pivotal role in strengthening our employer brand, championing direct sourcing, internal mobility, and inclusive hiring practices. If you’re a passionate recruiter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, this is your chance to help build the future of The Walt Disney Company. Come be part of the magic!

This role will be based four days a week in our Hammersmith, West London office, with one day working from home.

What You Will Do

• Decide on the most appropriate methodology including direct sourcing, head hunting, advertising, agencies and exploring internal solutions.

• Proactively partner and lead relationship with Hiring Managers to discuss and make recommendations on resourcing issues (temporary, permanent, fixed term) as well as looking at the most effective manner/way to source candidates.

• Challenge the stakeholders on wider elements impacting the business (e.g. internal mobility, location strategy, key strategic goals and directions) and professionally and effectively influence the outcome.

• Act as a trusted recruitment partner, taking ownership for the successful conclusion of recruitment assignments, ensuring delivery of a service that is customer focused, value-add and cost effective.

• Responsible for the full life-cycle recruitment process creating the hiring strategy for the hiring manager to fully understand the requirements of each vacancy to ensure the shortlisted CVs are of the quality desired.

• Applies strategic thinking to the sourcing strategy and can understand not only the current requirements of the role but also longer-term potential.

• Understand changes in business strategy that could influence or alter candidate pipelines.

• Draft creative and engaging adverts that will attract quality candidates to our vacancies.

• Undertake initial pre-screening through both CV review and telephone screening & with line managers as required.

• Work with the Talent Acquisition Team to promote The Walt Disney Company’s employer brand using social media and other tools.

• Maintains smooth flow of admin throughout the recruitment process e.g. communication to hiring manager, candidate, HR, etc.

• Project work in conjunction with your TA Manager.

• Uphold our Company commitments around Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.

• Support Hiring Leader and Peers education around Inclusion within the workplace.

Required Experience & Skills

• Experience of recruiting Corporate roles in a large, multinational matrix organisation (e.g. Finance, Legal, HR, Business Support, Facilities etc.)

• Experience of managing a requisition list of circa 20 varied vacancies concurrently

• Experience of leading initiatives to drive employer brand and generate candidates

• Excellent stakeholder management experience – building and maintaining relationships at all levels

• Proven experience of end-to-end recruitment in an in-house role

• Proven experience of delivering direct sourcing across multiple different and diverse roles

• Ability to deliver projects to improve ways of working, from inception to delivery

• Ability to operate and navigate in an environment of change and ambiguity

• Experience of using an Applicant Tracking system or similar, recruitment-focused software

• Knowledge of LinkedIn Recruiter and other social recruiting platforms

• Strong familiarity with Boolean and X-Ray searching techniques

• Understanding of the Entertainment & Media industry is preferable

• Be candidate focussed, accustomed to working with multi-functional groups at all levels

• Familiarity with using recruitment metrics to monitor performance

The Perks

• 25 days annual leave

• Private medical insurance & dental care

• Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free

• Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing

• Excellent parental and guardian leave

• Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.