Graduate Head Hunter at Retail Insights

Retailinsights; Greater London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12-month internship with potential for

Internal promotion track

Job summary

Retail Insights in London is seeking a Graduate Head Hunter to join our fast-paced, entrepreneurial team. You’ll own early-stage recruitment, engage candidates, and work directly with the CEO to shape our hiring strategy.

The role is based at our London HQ with a 12-month internship and potential for a full-time role in recruitment or other departments. No prior experience is required; you’ll learn on the job.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree with outstanding results.
• UK work permit.
• Natural ability to make people feel comfortable.
• Take ownership of everything you do and be proactive.
• Willingness to learn, develop and push yourself.
• No experience required; training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate weekly strategy sessions with the CEO and candidate meetings.
• Identify and engage potential candidates for outreach.
• Manage first stage of recruitment: CV screening.
• Own Recruitment Software Greenhouse: renew/update postings, update descriptions, sync with FirstMind.
• Report to senior recruitment and CEO.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Proactive

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Greenhouse

Job description

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with motivated and extremely driven people? Are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Graduate Head Hunter.

About us

Retail Insights is Northern Europe’s leading retail forum. We are strengthening the retail ecosystem by building a platform for insights, inspiration, and networking, connecting more than 3,000 leaders yearly from more than 15 countries.

Retail Insights is part of United Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you

As our Graduate Head Hunter, you get the unique opportunity to be a key player in building the greatest brand within Insurtech. By providing you with the ownership of our recruiting, we want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone ensuring you become an expert. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never-ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• An opportunity to get operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business
• A chance to work closely with the CEO on our recruiting strategy
• Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and we have a track record of promoting internally
• 12-month internship with the possibility of a full-time role either in recruitment or other departments of the company.

Watch this video with our founder to learn more about our thoughts on recruiting.

Your Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will vary; however, some of them will be to:

• Coordinate with the CEO all the weekly strategy sessions and lunch meetings with candidates.
• Identify and engage potential candidates for outreach.
• Take responsibility for the first stage of the recruitment process. (CV Screening)
• Take ownership of the Recruitment Software, Greenhouse:
• Renew and update job postings via the platform.
• Update the job description to attract more candidates
• Ensure synchronization between FirstMind and Greenhouse.
• You will report to the senior recruitment and to the CEO

What we expect from you

We do expect you to:

• Have acquired a bachelor’s or master’s degree with outstanding results
• Have a UK work permit
• Have a natural ability to make people feel comfortable around you
• Take ownership of everything you do, be proactive and follow through on commitments
• Desire to get to know other people and learn, develop, and push yourself.
• No experience is needed. If need be, we will teach you everything you need to know about recruiting.

Start date

Flexible

The role is onsite, Monday to Friday, based in our offices at Buckingham Gate. It is essential we work at a fast pace and collaborate in person to create market-leading, unmatched events throughout the calendar year. It will be great to have you as part of our team.