Recruitment Manager

An has exciting opportunity has arisen within a market leading FTSE 100 business to attract and recruit the best talent for the Group.

The Group Recruitment Manager will work in a small team at a Group level, leading our approach to attraction and recruitment.

You will raise our client's profile as an employer, helping us to attract the best talent into a range of exciting roles and provide a positive candidate experience. You will champion the their values and culture and our commitment to social mobility, equity, diversity and inclusion.

Key responsibilities:

• Set and maintain best practice guidelines for recruitment and attraction, and support our regional people teams and hiring managers in implementing them effectively.
• Work collaboratively with the Group Future Skills Manager to attract and recruit emerging talent through the graduate programme and apprenticeship schemes.
• Develop guidelines for external recruitment consultantancies to ensure a consistent and best practice approach in line with the Group values and our approach to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
• Deliver an internal recruitment function for the autonomous businesses for certain roles, initially directly, and over time to grow a small recruitment team.
• Manage the Group’s careers website, improving the information provided to candidates and helping to provide an insight into what it’s like to work at with our client.
• Manage the applicant tracking software for the business and be the point of contact for posting new roles externally.

Skills, knowledge and expertise:

• Knowledge of recruitment and best practice (in house or agency)
• Ability to apply a good foundation knowledge of HR policy and best practice pragmatically to support a positive candidate experience.
• Passionate about people.
• Enthusiastic about driving change.
• Responsive and helpful when providing advice and support to multiple stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Ability to working independently, and to collaborate with others.
• Discrete and able to handle confidential information.
• Comfortable being onsite at least three days per week