Talent Acquisition Executive

JD Sports Fashion; Bury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports fashion retailer in the UK is seeking a Talent Acquisition Executive. This role involves managing the full recruitment cycle, enhancing the employer brand, and ensuring a positive candidate experience. The ideal candidate will have experience in recruiting for Marketing, Digital, or Buying & Merchandising roles and possess excellent communication and networking skills. Benefits include a holiday allowance, staff discounts, and personal development opportunities.

Benefits

Incremental holiday allowance

Staff discount

Colleague bike discount scheme

Discounted gym membership

Personal development opportunities

Access to apprenticeships and qualifications

Qualifications

• Experience in recruiting roles within Marketing, Digital, or Buying & Merchandising.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience managing stakeholders during hiring cycles is a plus.
• Up-to-date knowledge of acquisition practices from leading organizations.
• Proficient in HR & ATS platforms.
• Competent using LinkedIn Recruiter.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment life-cycle from brief to offer.
• Build a talent bank through recruitment and networking events.
• Enhance employer brand through social media and events.
• Provide candidate insights at critical interview stages.
• Maintain a positive candidate experience throughout hiring.
• Ensure structured interview processes are followed.
• Provide acquisition data for review.
• Manage live vacancies on various platforms.

Skills

Recruiting experience

Excellent interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

External networking

Using HR & ATS platforms

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Working as a key part of the people talent team, specifically focusing on talent acquisition across Marketing, Digital, and or Buying & Merchandising. The successful candidate will ensure these areas can attract and recruit the best talent in the market.

• Job Title – Talent Acquisition Executive
• Location – BL9 8RR
• Working rota – Monday Friday
• Working hours – 40
  
  

What You'll Be Doing

• Full recruitment life-cycle management; from full brief to actively headhunting and successful offer management.
• Build an external bank of talent within your related disciplines, through proactive recruitment and networking events, and innovative talent pipelining strategies.
• Proactively build the JD employer brand externally within your network, utilising social media, events and careers fairs.
• Relaying initial candidate insights to the hiring manager at critical points such as interview and offer management stages.
• Maintain a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process, ensuring candidates are well informed and looked after at each stage of the recruitment journey.
• Ensure business areas follow a structured interview process, identifying high-performing candidates within the market that match our business requirements and values.
• Provide in depth acquisition data to the Talent Acquisition senior leadership team and line managers for review.
• Collate, upload and manage live vacancies onto ATS, LinkedIn, and other resourcing outlets.
  
  

Consistently strive to reduce agency fees within business areas, closely managing the spend of your disciplines

What We're Looking For

• Experience in recruiting roles within Marketing, Digital, and or Buying & Merchandising
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in managing stakeholders throughout hiring cycles is advantageous.
• An excellent external network & knowledge of good acquisition practises in other leading organisations which is kept up to date
• Proficient in using HR & ATS platforms.
• Competent using LinkedIn Recruiter.
  
  

The Company

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world. We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity. To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-first, a digital leader and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day. We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
  
  

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasionApplications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Thank you for your time

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