Talent Acquisition Manager

RS UK & Ireland; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

RS UK & Ireland is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager for a 6-month fixed-term contract focusing on high volume recruitment across various business areas. The role emphasizes sourcing, candidate experience, and stakeholder collaboration. Ideal candidates will have strong HR backgrounds and be adept at navigating complex recruitment challenges.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in talent acquisition processes in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder priorities effectively.
• Fluency in English is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment processes to ensure candidate satisfaction.
• Utilize talent pools and develop proactive sourcing strategies.
• Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders

Skills

Direct sourcing

Candidate experience focus

Stakeholder management

Creative problem solving

Understanding of employment law

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Job description

Location: Hybrid working from one of our offices in Corby, London or Manchester

At RS Group, Talent Acquisition (TA) is a critical function within our wider People organisation. We attract and recruit top talent for multiple business areas and locations across the UK and Europe. As a team we live and breathe our values – We are one team, we deliver brilliantly, we do the right thing and we make every day better.

Due to a high number of requisitions we are seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to join us for a 6 month fixed term contract.

This role will see you delivering the TA process for high volume areas of the business, working with candidates, hiring managers and key stakeholders to deliver a class leading end-to-end recruitment process.

What You’ll Be Doing

Talent Acquisition and Partnering:

• Process and screen external and internal applications/CVs/online profiles. Handle queries and provide advice
• Utilise talent pools to identify suitable candidates, ensuring talent pools are maintained and created as required
• Use available tools to proactively source passive candidates in the market and promote RS Group opportunities
• Deliver qualified, pre-screened, high calibre candidates to the business within agreed timeframes
• Prepare and submit shortlists to hiring managers, driving pace of process to ensure great outcomes
• Support and manage the candidate experience throughout the hiring lifecycle, ensuring SLAs are always upheld
• Anticipate potential issues to hiring and take proactive remedial action, have relevant mitigations in place or ways of working to ensure issues are resolved, demand is effectively management and roles fulfilled
• Provide Senior TA Manager and stakeholder groups with regular updates, MI and reports, along with any issues arising and solutions/mitigation being implemented
  
  

Employer Brand and Diversity and Inclusion:

• Ensure our employer brand and culture is at the heart of all recruitment delivery discussions and activity and are used within the agreed parameters/guidelines
• Work in partnership with stakeholders to propose and introduce creative ways to enhance brand, both internally and externally in all recruitment delivery and processes
• Embed the Diversity and Inclusion agenda by understanding RS and the business areas’ priorities, getting involved in RS Group ERG’s and work to diversify representation of under-represented populations and skills in your hiring
• Proactively establish strong ties to external, underrepresented talent pools and ensure all talent attraction efforts are inclusive
  
  

About You

You will be used to driving end to end talent acquisition delivery within a large, fast paced and complex environment. Other essential skills and experience include:

• Experience of direct and pro-active sourcing techniques.
• Strong focus on candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Ability to work across a breadth of functions and stakeholders, appreciating cultural sensitivities and differences.
• Ability to provide creative solutions to sourcing candidates when a different approach is required.
• Sound working knowledge of relevant employment law impacting recruitment in the countries in which you operate.
• Demonstrated ability to develop effective, credible relationships, challenge, and work with integrity at all levels within the organisation to influence recruitment decisions.
• Able to manage expectations/conflicting requirements and priorities of multiple stakeholders.
• Business fluent in English language.
  
  

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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