Talent Acquisition Lead, UK

Join us as a Head of Talent Acquisition-UK to take your career to the next level with a global market leader.

How you will create an impact

In this role, you will shape and deliver the talent acquisition strategy across the UK businesses—ensuring we attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent in highly competitive and specialist markets.

This is a highly visible role partnering with senior business and HR leaders to drive hiring outcomes that enable growth, transformation, and long‑term capability building.

• Lead strategic talent acquisition across the UK, aligning recruiting priorities with business strategy, growth plans, and workforce needs.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, translating complex talent challenges into actionable recruiting solutions across specialist and niche hiring profiles.

• Own and evolve market‑specific TA strategies, balancing global frameworks with local UK labor market dynamics, regulatory considerations, and competitive intelligence.

• Build and inspire a high‑performing TA team, setting clear expectations, coaching leaders, and driving accountability for delivery, quality, and experience.

• Partner closely with Global TA leadership, contributing to enterprise TA strategy, sharing best practices, and supporting ongoing TA transformation initiatives.

• Drive continuous improvement across recruiting processes, candidate experience, and hiring manager engagement, leveraging data, insights, and market trends.

• Ensure strong governance and compliance, including adherence to hiring policies, employment regulations, and internal controls across all hiring activity.

• Use data to inform decisions, providing transparent reporting on hiring performance, market challenges, and progress against SLAs and business outcomes.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Extensive leadership experience in Talent Acquisition, ideally within complex, matrixed, or global organizations.

• Deep understanding of the UK talent market, including hiring for specialist, professional, and niche roles.

• Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders, influencing outcomes and navigating competing priorities.

• Experience leading and developing TA leaders and teams, with a strong track record of building capability and driving performance.

• Demonstrated success operating within global TA models, balancing enterprise standards with local execution.

• Strong commercial and analytical mindset, using data, insights, and market intelligence to shape hiring strategies.

• Comfort leading through change, including TA transformation, process evolution, and operating model shifts.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage at executive level.

#LI-AIG

At AIG, we value in-person collaboration as a vital part of our culture, which is why we ask our team members to be primarily in the office. This approach helps us work together effectively and create a supportive, connected environment for our team and clients alike.

Enjoy benefits that take care of what matters

At AIG, our people are our greatest asset. We know how important it is to protect and invest in what’s most important to you. That is why we created our Total Rewards Program, a comprehensive benefits package that extends beyond time spent at work to offer benefits focused on your health, wellbeing and financial security—as well as your professional development—to bring peace of mind to you and your family.

Reimagining insurance to make a bigger difference to the world

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most far-reaching property casualty networks. It is an exciting time to join us — across our operations, we are thinking in new and innovative ways to deliver ever-better solutions to our customers. At AIG, you can go further to support individuals, businesses, and communities, helping them to manage risk, respond to times of uncertainty and discover new potential. We invest in our largest asset, our people, through continuous learning and development, in a culture that celebrates everyone for who they are and what they want to become.

Welcome to a culture of inclusion

We’re committed to creating a culture that truly respects and celebrates each other’s talents, backgrounds, cultures, opinions and goals. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging through learning, cultural awareness activities and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). With global chapters, ERGs are a cornerstone for our culture of inclusion. The talent of our people is one of AIG’s greatest assets, and we are honored that our drive for positive change has been recognized by numerous recent awards and accreditations.

AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories.

AIG is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please send an email to candidatecare@aig.com.

HR - Human ResourcesAIG Europe S.A. (U.K. Service Branch) & American International Group UK Ltd