Talent Acquisition Partner

About this role

Fresh Food, Happy Dogs.

We believe dogs deserve the healthiest, most natural and tastiest meals - with none of the nasties. That’s why we make FRESHly prepared food, cooked just like you would at home and delivered direct to our customers in perfect portions. As a B-Corp certified company, you’re joining a sustainable business that genuinely cares about our people, our products and our impact on the planet. Our goal is simple: to help dogs live healthier, happier, and longer lives, while leaving humans smiling after every interaction.

We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave), hand delivered the very first Butternut Box. Today, we feed hundreds of thousands of hungry dogs across the UK and Europe - but we won’t stop until we’re feeding dogs everywhere. To get there, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work for us.

📣 A bit about the role.

We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to act as our boots on the ground hiring anchor for our UK manufacturing and fulfilment sites (Rudie’s Kitchen and Aces Pantry). This is a high impact, Individual Contributor (IC) role - perfect for a recruiter who loves being embedded in the business, can navigate everything from corporate office roles to high-volume frontline ops, and can confidently business partner with our Senior Leadership Team.

You’ll be the face of TA on-site in the UK, working alongside another UK based TA Partner, where you will play a crucial role in managing critical stakeholder relationships, and driving our recruitment strategy forward.
This role balances high touch stakeholder management, hands on recruiting across all levels, and operational execution - with a strong focus on keeping senior UK hiring in house, utilising data, and leveraging AI to streamline how we work. This role is based 5 days a week on site at Rudies Kitchen & Ace’s pantry in Blyth, Worksop.

🧠 What You’ll Be Responsible For.

Stakeholder Partnership & Delivery

• Act as the primary, trusted talent partner to the UK Operations Senior Leadership Team across Rudie’s and Aces.

• Sit with UK directors and heads of departments to take briefings, challenge specs, manage expectations, and provide data backed market insights.

Hands On Hiring

• Own and execute end to end recruitment for all senior, corporate, and office based roles in the UK, entirely eliminating our reliance on external recruitment agencies.

• Roll up your sleeves and support on high-volume, frontline, or blue-collar operational hiring during peak periods or site growth.

• Deliver an exceptional, consistent candidate experience from initial outreach to onboarding.

Local Mentorship

• Act as a sounding board for the UK based Ops TA Partner sitting alongside you.

• Help guide daily priorities on site, unblock local hiring challenges, and share best practices to help upskill the local team.

Operational Excellence & Data

• Use local market data to inform hiring decisions, manage stakeholder expectations around salary/pipelines, and highlight hiring risks.

• Track and maintain clean hiring metrics (time-to-hire, pipeline health, quality-of-hire) to feedback to leadership.

• Constantly look for ways to streamline the UK interview and assessment processes to keep us agile.

Automation & AI

• Identify opportunities to automate manual tasks within the UK recruitment workflow.

• Active adoption of AI tools to improve sourcing speed, screen candidates efficiently, and optimise outreach.

🚀 What we’re looking for:

• Proven track record as a Talent Acquisition Partner, ideally within manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, or fast-paced operational environments.

• A true hybrid recruiter who is just as comfortable headhunting a senior head of department as they are mapping out a high volume frontline campaign.

• Confident, articulate, and mature enough to partner with, advise, and challenge senior directors and site leadership.

• Thrives on being physically on-site and embedded next door to the business at Rudie's and Aces (Blyth, Worksop).

• Data literate and genuinely excited about using modern recruitment tools, AI, and automation to work smarter, not harder.

• Proactive, resilient, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a growing business.

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*

• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*

• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.* (equivalent to 5 days)

• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.

• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Axa Healthcare.

• Enhanced parental leave

• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Vitality…