Talent Acquisition Manager

inploi; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to manage their talent team and execute effective recruitment strategies. The role involves maintaining a strong employer brand and delivering an excellent candidate experience throughout the hiring process. Candidates should be proactive, analytical, and possess leadership skills, with a solid understanding of recruitment activities. While a degree in Human Resources is beneficial, it is not essential.

Qualifications

• Strong relationships with key stakeholders are crucial.
• Good knowledge of recruitment activities needed.
• Previous line management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee talent team management and development.
• Deliver and uphold the employer brand.
• Ensure adherence to recruitment KPIs and processes.

Skills

Relationship building

Analytical skills

Team leadership

Employer brand understanding

Creative thinking

Proactive mindset

Education

Degree in Human Resources or CIPD Level 3

Job description

Overview

Talent Acquisition Manager
Savers - Career Band 7

Role Purpose:
The Talent Acquisition Manager will be responsible for managing the Talent team and will report into the Senior Talent & Personal Development Manager. The purpose of the role is to create and deliver an attraction strategy to meet recruitment KPI’s including time to fill and cost per hire, while ensuring a positive candidate experience is maintained throughout all recruitment processes. To feed into and support the landing of the Talent strategy. Ensuring the business has a strong employer brand and maximize this through social media with creative ideas to minimize costs. To deliver the best-in-class Candidate experience to protect the brand.

A typical day in this role includes:

• Will be accountable for the talent team line manager and development to the team
• Owning the budget for your area of Talent Acquisition
• Providing continuous reporting & presentations for the business when required
• Up skilling Line Managers through training and development where required with regards to recruitment and selection processes
• Provide advice and information concerning external market conditions for your areas of responsibility
• Work with the HR Business Partners to ensure succession plans are utilised when needed
• Ensure that the correct recruitment processes are followed and that the KPIs of time to fill, percentage fill are met and cost per hire
• Support line managers with their recruitment of management roles using cost efficient and creative methods including advertising, head hunting, direct searches, social media, networking and job boards
• Organise and run assessment centres and careers fairs to recruit and build a database of quality candidates
• Ensure the employer brand guidelines are adhered to and kept up to date
• To maintain and progress www.savers.jobs – taking full accountability of the careers site
• To manage our Indeed Company page & content
• To promote and ensure the success & growth of our Savers Jobs (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn & Tiktok)
• Maintain and develop all recruitment materials ensuring they fit our employer brand are always available for our stores
• To provide an excellent candidate experience from application to on-boarding
• Ensuring our processes for candidates are up to date and that Savers provides excellent service
• Ensure positive relationships with all key stakeholders for areas of responsibility are maintained through delivery of service levels
• To take ownership of Hybrid recruitment, ensuring stores have the training and support from the talent team to provide an excellent candidate experience. Ensure all SLA’s are met and outstanding service & support is given to the stores to ensure success.
• To support/lead with Retail Management recruitment (& Head Office when required)

This job is a good fit for you if:

• You enjoy being proactive, seek opportunities, collaborate with key stakeholders
• You are good at leading teams
• You are analytical and good at producing reports with commentary
• You have good understanding of our employer brand and are passionate about building it
• You are motivated exceeding targets and delivering key KPI’s
• You have can do attitude and are resilient

What you’ll need:

• You need to have experience building strong relationships with key stakeholders
• You will have good knowledge of recruitment activities and employer brand understanding
• You will be willing to continuously learn and develop yourself and team
• You will need to be curious, creative and hard working
• Previous line management experience
• A degree Human Resources or CIPD Level 3 would be valuable but not essential