Talent Acquisition Lead (Remote -Spain)

Talent Acquisition Lead – Spain

Spain | Competitive salary and benefits

TeamFeePay (TFP) is one of the biggest grassroots football club management platforms in the UK. Our ambition is a simple one: to be the number one platform supporting grassroots football in every market we operate in. We are a scale-up growing rapidly across the UK and Europe and the people we hire and develop are what will determine how far and how fast we go.

We launched in Spain in early 2026 and already have more than 40 clubs on the platform as customers and, just as importantly, advocates for what we do. Having proven the market, we are now ready to accelerate. We expect Spain to follow the growth trajectory we have seen in the UK, where the team is now more than 100 people. That gives you a clear sense of the scale we are building towards, and of the pace at which hiring will need to move to get us there.

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Lead, based in Spain, to take ownership of hiring in what will become one of our most important markets. Reporting to the Chief People Officer and with support from the Talent Acquisition Lead in Belfast, you will run recruitment end to end for every role we hire in country and support hiring into our wider European territories. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role. You will own your own requisitions, source and assess candidates directly, and guide hiring managers through the process from briefing to offer.

This is a pivotal role and you will join at the start of a hugely exciting stage of our evolution in Spain. Every hire you make will shape how quickly we grow here, how well we serve Spanish clubs and the culture we build as the team expands. You will have considerable influence over our growth trajectory in Spain, direct access to leadership, and the chance to build a function from the ground up rather than inherit one already formed. Put simply, you will be integral to our success in this market.

As our first dedicated recruitment hire on the ground in Spain, you will be the local expert. You will bring the market knowledge, the language and the networks we need to build a credible employer brand in a market where we are not yet well known. You will not be doing it alone. Our Talent Acquisition Lead in the UK will help you get to grips with our hiring philosophy, our processes and our systems, and you will work closely with colleagues in Belfast so that our hiring standards are applied consistently wherever the role sits. You will be well supported to do the best work of your career here.

What’s in it for you

•         Competitive salary and bonus

•         Private medical insurance

•         Professional development opportunities

Your day-to-day

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

•         Take full responsibility for all in-country hiring in Spain, across every function, from individual specialist appointments through to volume commercial recruitment.

•         Own a portfolio of live vacancies across Spain and, where required, other European territories, managing each one from briefing through to signed offer.

•         Take detailed role briefs from hiring managers, agreeing the candidate profile, assessment approach, timeline and success measures before the role goes live.

•         Write and localise job advertisements that are accurate, inclusive and appealing to candidates in the Spanish market.

•         Screen applications, conduct first-stage interviews and provide clear, evidence-based shortlists with recommendations rather than long lists of CVs.

•         Coordinate interviews and assessments across time zones, keeping the process moving and holding hiring managers to agreed timescales.

•         Manage offer conversations, including salary discussions within agreed ranges, and work with the People team to get contracts and pre-employment checks completed.

•         Keep time to hire, cost per hire and offer acceptance within agreed targets, and flag early where a role is at risk of stalling.

Sales Hiring and Assessment Centres

•         Lead recruitment for our Regional Football Representative (RFR) roles, which will make up much of the hiring plan through the initial phase of scaling in Spain.

•         Plan and facilitate the assessment centres we hold in each region, covering candidate invitation and logistics, exercise delivery, scoring and calibration with hiring managers.

•         Travel within Spain as required to run assessment centres and to be visible to candidates and hiring teams in the regions where we are growing.

•         Build repeatable, high-quality selection processes for volume commercial hiring, so that quality of hire holds up as the pace of recruitment increases.

Direct Sourcing and Pipeline Building

•         Proactively source passive candidates through LinkedIn, local job boards, professional networks, communities and referrals, reducing our reliance on agency supply.

•         Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring and business-critical roles so that we are not starting from zero each time a vacancy opens.

•         Run targeted outreach campaigns in Spanish, with messaging that reflects TFP rather than generic recruiter templates.

•         Develop relationships with universities, bootcamps, sector groups and local networks to build early-career and specialist pipelines.

•         Manage any agency or contractor relationships used in your market, holding suppliers to agreed terms, service levels and cost.

Candidate and Hiring Manager Experience

•         Deliver a candidate experience that reflects our values, keeping every applicant informed and treating unsuccessful candidates as well as successful ones.

•         Act as the main point of contact for candidates in your market, answering questions on the role, the company, the process and the practicalities of working for a UK-headquartered business.

•         Coach hiring managers on interviewing, structured assessment, note-taking and fair selection, and challenge decisions that are not supported by evidence.

•         Gather candidate and hiring manager feedback after each process and use it to improve how we hire.

Local Market Knowledge and Compliance

•         Act as our source of local market intelligence, covering salary benchmarking, notice periods, hiring lead times, candidate expectations and competitor activity in Spain.

•         Ensure hiring practice is compliant with Spanish employment law, including any collective agreement obligations that apply, and with right to work requirements.

•         Handle candidate data in line with EU and UK GDPR, keeping records accurate, secure and retained only for as long as needed.

•         Support safeguarding and pre-employment screening requirements relevant to the grassroots sport sector.

•         Work with the Chief People Officer and external advisers on employment model questions, such as direct entity or employer of record arrangements, feeding in what you see in the market.

Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing

•         Build TFP’s profile as an employer in Spain, adapting our employee value proposition so that it reads as locally credible rather than as a translated UK message.

•         Create and localise careers content, employer profiles and candidate communications, working with Marketing to keep a consistent brand voice.

•         Represent TFP at careers events, meet-ups and industry gatherings in your market.

Systems, Data and Reporting

•         Keep the applicant tracking system accurate and up to date, so that pipeline data can be relied on for reporting and forecasting.

•         Report on recruitment activity and outcomes for your market, including pipeline health, source effectiveness, conversion rates and diversity data where lawful to collect.

•         Identify where process, tooling or templates could be improved for multi-country hiring and put forward practical suggestions.

•         Embed equality, diversity and inclusion into day-to-day hiring practice, not just at the point of writing the advertisement.