Junior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Junior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Overview

The Talent Acquisition team is looking for a Junior Talent Acquisition Specialist to support recruitment across our Core Payments, Commercial New Payment Flows, and International Marketing Communications teams in Europe. You’ll be responsible for managing the end-to-end hiring process, sourcing great talent, and delivering a high-quality experience for both candidates and hiring managers.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone early in their recruitment career who is passionate about people, curious about business, and eager to grow in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

All About The Role

• Manage requisitions across three business units, supporting a variety of hiring needs.
• Act as the point of contact for internal and external candidates, hiring managers, and business stakeholders.
• Partner with hiring managers to tailor sourcing strategies and attract top talent.
• Collaborate on creating engaging job ads for current openings.
• Advertise roles on careers pages, job boards, and social networks such as LinkedIn.
• Conduct initial screening of passive candidates and support interview coordination.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines in our CRM for future hiring needs.
• Uphold and follow designated TA processes and systems.
• Monitor sourcing effectiveness using key performance indicators (e.g. time-to-fill, pipeline quality, direct sourcing success).
• Support strategic TA projects aimed at improving operational excellence.
  
  
  

All About You

• You bring experience from either an agency or in-house recruitment environment, ideally in a sourcing, coordination, or junior recruiter role.
• A strong communicator and relationship builder.
• Curious and agile, with the ability to absorb and interpret technical and business information.
• Organised and proactive, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a collaborative mindset.
• Commercially aware, understanding the impact of talent acquisition on business success.
• Comfortable working to service-level agreements and recruitment timelines.
  
  
  

Desirable

• Experience working in or with matrix organisation model.
• Familiarity with Workday or similar applicant tracking systems.
  
  
  

Location

• This role is based in our Harrogate office and follows our hybrid working policy of 3 days per week in the office.
  
  
  

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.