Senior Recruiter

Sainsbury's Limited; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discount

Pension scheme

Life cover

Performance bonus

Holiday allowance

Season ticket loan

Cycle to work

Health cash plan

Salary advance

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Argos is seeking a Senior Recruiter for a fixed-term 6-month role, hybrid working, based in London. You will own end-to-end recruitment for multiple business units, delivering high-quality candidate shortlists while partnering closely with hiring managers.

Bring expert recruitment knowledge, a people-first mindset, and strong experience in head office hiring. You will use multiple resourcing tools to source talent and provide market insight to support business needs.

Qualifications

• Expert recruitment experience and knowledge of recruitment best practice in the external marketplace.
• People-first mindset focusing on candidate experience and strong business partnering.
• Experience in head office recruitment and multiple resourcing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of end-to-end recruitment for allocated business units to a successful conclusion with minimal external agency use.
• Deliver engaging recruitment experiences and communicate proactively with stakeholders and candidates.
• Manage candidates through the process to day 1 onboarding and strengthen employer brand.
• Develop partnerships with hiring managers to understand talent needs and build diverse, high-quality shortlists.
• Build talent pools for current and future needs to reduce time-to-hire and enable succession planning.
• Lead recruitment projects as required.

Skills

Senior recruitment

Head office hiring

Market mapping

Candidate sourcing

Resourcing platforms

Job description

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Contract duration: 6 months
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 17 November 2026
Requisition ID: 400096667

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.

In a nutshell

The Senior Recruiter is responsible for the end-to-end recruitment of roles for multiple business units using expert knowledge to ensure the delivery of high quality and diverse candidates, customer satisfaction.

We’re looking for Recruiters who put the candidate and hiring manager experience at the heart of everything they do – influencing stakeholders and working collaboratively and flexibly as part of the wider recruitment team to meet business needs. You’ll also add value by developing and sharing quality market insight and candidate pools through a combination of networking, research and knowledge sharing.

This is a fixed term (6 months) role initially, hybrid working.

About the Role

• Take ownership of the end-to-end recruitment process for allocated business units to a successful conclusion for all roles – ensuring minimal external agency usage.
• Deliver engaging recruitment experiences, working in collaboration with Recruitment colleagues to do so, and communicating proactively throughout.
• Manage candidates through the end-to-end recruitment process until day 1 and fully on-boarded, in a way that strengthens and conveys a positive employer brand.
• Develop excellent partnerships with hiring managers to understand their talent requirements and bring high quality, diverse shortlists against vacancies.
• Build quality, diverse talent pools for key roles, that focus on current and future business needs to reduce time to hire and enable quality succession planning.
• Complete targeted marketing mapping activities to give external insight and potential sources for future.
• Responsible for leading detailed vacancy consultations with hiring managers, delivering to this for all roles up as allocated by the Recruitment Manager, defining the local recruitment approach quickly and efficiently.
• Proactively obtain feedback to ensure candidate and stakeholder satisfaction using information and available data to identify issues, problem solve and implement appropriate changes.
• Lead & participate in recruitment projects as required.

What you need to know

• Expert recruitment experience, understanding the theory or knowledge of recruitment best practice in the external market place, including Talent Pooling and Market Mapping.
• People-first mind set which centres your approach around candidate experience and excellent business partnering skills.
• Experienced recruitment professional with demonstrable expertise in head office hiring.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of multiple resourcing technologies, platforms and social networking to source candidates and build candidate/talent pools.
• Proactively increases own knowledge and commercial awareness whilst keeping abreast of new innovations in attraction methodologies.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).