Global Recruitment System Administrator (12-month FTC)
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Turner & Townsend is seeking a Global Recruitment Systems Administrator for a 12-month fixed-term contract in Leeds to configure and optimise SmartRecruiters, support global TA teams, and ensure end-to-end hiring workflows and integrations run smoothly across regions. You’ll troubleshoot issues, build templates, offer formats, develop documentation, and manage integrations with background checks, HRIS, onboarding and job boards while maintaining clean data and reporting. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience administering a global HR or recruitment system (SmartRecruiters preferred), strong analytical and communication skills, and change-management know-how. To apply, tailor your CV to demonstrate global ATS configuration, automation, training materials, measurable improvements, and alignment with our values; highlight readiness to be onsite in Leeds with hybrid options.
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
We’re looking for a detail-oriented and technically curious Global Recruitment Systems Administrator to help us shape and optimise the way we hire across Turner & Townsend. This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in configuring and enhancing our Applicant Tracking System, SmartRecruiters, ensuring our hiring workflows, offer processes, approvals, templates, and integrations run smoothly and consistently across all regions. Working closely with our Global Talent Acquisition teams, you’ll help deliver a seamless, compliant, and scalable hiring experience for our people and candidates alike.
It’s an exciting time to join us. We’re actively transforming our recruitment systems—bringing end-to-end hiring processes and approvals fully online, while introducing new integrations to strengthen our tech ecosystem. You’ll be at the heart of this journey, testing and deploying new features, implementing configuration changes, and helping us continuously improve how our system supports the business.
If you enjoy balancing technical configuration with process improvement and want to make a tangible impact in a global organisation, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
Support & Troubleshooting
- Resolving system issues, workflow failures, and configuration errors for global TA teams.
- Support regional training, system enhancements, developing best‑practice documentation for recruiters and hiring managers.
- Work with SmartRecruiters Support and Customer Success on escalations and system enhancements
System Configuration
- Understanding global system settings, hiring processes, job templates, user roles, permissions, and custom fields.
- Building and maintaining templates, merge fields, approvals and country‑specific offer formats.
- Support integrations with background checks, assessments, HRIS, onboarding, and job boards.
- Maintain data structures, fields, and picklists to ensure consistency and usability.
System Optimisation
- Identify opportunities to streamline and automate - reducing manual work where possible.
- Support system reporting ensuring regional teams have data required.
- Test and support deployment of new features, configuration changes, and system updates.
- Stay up to date with ATS platform updates, industry trends, and best practices.
Qualifications
Skills & Experience
- Hands‑on experience administering a HR / recruitment system in a global environment (ideally SmartRecruiters but this is not essential)
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Familiarity with HRIS integrations and data flows (desirable)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to support non‑technical users.
- Experience working in project-based environments including change management processes.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑moving environment.
Additional Information
Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.
We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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