Talent Acquisition Specialist

Harding Retail; West of England; Híbrido; GBP 30.000 - 52.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Bonus scheme

Pension

Life assurance

Healthcare

26 days annual leave

Discounts with retailers

Social events

Staff sales

Hybrid work

Onsite parking

Salary sacrifice

Descripción de la vacante

Harding+ is seeking a recruiter to join the Talent Acquisition team for 12 months, driving live campaigns from briefing to offer and building scalable processes with automation and AI. You will own landside roles, source directly, partner with hiring managers, map the candidate journey, and implement changes across ATS Talos and automation tools, ensuring fairness and data protection.

This hybrid role in Avonmouth Bristol area offers a competitive package with a pension, healthcare, and other

Formación

• Solid full-cycle recruitment experience, gained in-house or agency.
• Direct sourcing experience, including LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean search.
• Strong relationships with hiring managers and advisory capability.
• Experience building and embedding new recruitment systems or processes.
• Comfortable with ATS platforms and automation tools; Talos experience is a bonus.
• Curious about AI in recruitment with attention to fairness and data protection.
• Organised enough to balance live roles and project work.

Responsabilidades

• Own live recruitment campaigns from briefing to offer for landside roles.
• Source candidates directly, build shortlists, and collaborate with hiring managers.
• Map and redesign the recruitment journey to reduce time and effort.
• Implement changes using ATS, automation, and AI; embed new processes across teams.
• Write guidance and process maps and measure the impact of changes.
• Ensure hiring practices are fair, inclusive, and compliant with data protection.

Conocimientos

Full-cycle recruitment

LinkedIn Recruiter

Boolean search

Candidate sourcing

Stakeholder management

ATS platforms

Automation tools

AI in recruitment

Herramientas

Talos ATS

Descripción del empleo

Harding+ has just been named Cruise Retailer of the Year for the fourth time in five years. We’re proud of that, and we have no intention of standing still. Our Talent Acquisition team is partway through a real transformation, rethinking how we find, assess and hire people for our teams in Bristol and Miami, our partner team in Cape Town, and our crews at sea.

We’re looking for a recruiter who wants to help shape what comes next. For the next 12 months, you’ll work closely with our Head of Talent Acquisition, combining hands‑on recruitment with building the processes, automation and AI tools that will make our hiring quicker, leaner and better for everyone involved.

What you’ll be doing

Your week will start with live recruitment. You’ll own campaigns for our landside roles from briefing to offer, sourcing talent directly, building shortlists and working alongside hiring managers across the business to understand what they need. That day‑to‑day contact matters, because it shows you where our current process works and where it gets in the way.

From there, you’ll help us fix it. You’ll map how candidates and managers move through our recruitment journey, spot where time and effort are lost, and redesign those steps with the Head of Talent Acquisition. Some of the answers will sit in our ATS, Talos. Others will come from automation and AI, in areas such as screening, scheduling and candidate communication.

Helping to build something is only half the job. You’ll help embed it too, bringing hiring managers and the wider team with you, writing guidance and process maps people will actually use, and measuring the difference each change makes. Throughout, you’ll make sure what we build is fair, inclusive and compliant, including how AI is used in hiring.

By the end of thecontract, you’ll have left Harding+ with a recruitment model built to scale, and a clear record of what you helped change.

About you

• Solid full-cycle recruitment experience, gained in-house or agency, and a genuine enjoyment of finding and engaging talent
• Confident direct sourcing, including LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean search
• Strong relationships with hiring managers, with the credibility to advise and challenge
• Experience building, implementing and embedding new systems or processes in a recruitment or HR setting
• Comfortable with ATS platforms and automation tools (Talos experience is a bonus)
• Curious and practical about AI in recruitment, with an eye on fairness and data protection
• Organised enough to balance live roles and project work without either slipping

You’ll need an existing right to work in the UK.

The attributes that matter most to us are trust, collaboration, respect, passion, drive and resilience.

What we offer

• Competitive salary with bonus scheme
• Pension and four times life assurance
• Healthcare cover
• 26 days’ annual leave, with the option to buy more
• Discounts with many high street retailers
• Regular social events across the business
• Staff sales, because who doesn’t love discounted duty-free goods
• Hybrid working, with a minimum of two days a week in our Avonmouth office
• onsite free parking
• Salary sacrifice benefit options.

About Harding+

Harding+ is the only 100% dedicated cruise retailer, working with cruise lines and brand partners to make every cruise better. With more than 1,000 crew at sea and 350 landside colleagues, we run retail worldwide partnering with many cruiseline partners. Our focus on outstanding retail and guest experience has earned us Cruise Retailer of the Year in 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and make recruitment decisions based on skills, experience and potential. If you need any adjustments during the application process, just let us know. We take protecting your data seriously.