Senior Recruiter

Sainsbury's ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh

Overview

Job Description

Do you have the knowledge, skills and experience to take a lead role in developing talent attraction strategies that will deliver a first class end to end recruitment service to your stakeholders? If yes, then we would love to hear from you! We're proud of our heritage as the UK's first supermarket bank, we're a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers' financial lives easier. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution. As part of the wider Sainsbury's multi-brand business, being one of the UK's most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do. In a nutshell As Senior Recruiter you'll be joining an established team where you'll work at a senior level, partnering with your business areas to deliver a first class recruitment service. What success looks like? * You will be a trusted recruitment partner working collaboratively with your stakeholders to deliver recruitment and change projects * Using data, market insight and mapping you will create and deliver effective talent attraction strategies, reducing time to hire * Manage your own business areas, delivering on own KPIs, owning and reviewing own results, making suggestions to improve performance and service delivery What you will be doing * Deliver talent strategies that attract, short list and recruit candidates that meet the desired person specification for each vacancy * Select appropriate sourcing technology/approaches to use to create external talent pool * Manage candidate journey from application to day 1, in a way that strengthens and conveys a positive employer brand What you need to know and show * Confident, commercial and performance led with good judgement and collaborative working * Excellent communication skills and attention to detail * Self-motivation, working at pace and multi-tasker with limited supervision * Proven track record in recruitment with expert recruitment knowledge and understanding of the theory or proven knowledge of recruitment best practice in the external market place, including Talent Pooling and Market Mapping * Understand and be compliant with the corporate data protection and confidentiality policies, exposure to working in a regulated environment would be advantageous * Expert knowledge and experience in the use of resourcing technologies and social networking to build candidate/talent pools including ATS expertise and LinkedIn * Ability to produce, analyse and interpret data, identify opportunities and using data to inform decisions * A passion for Diversity and Inclusion in all approaches Colleague Conduct Rules The individual performing this role is expected to adhere to conduct rules as specified by our regulators (PRA and FCA). As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references. Our benefits In addition to the all- important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So we want to shout out some of our other great benefits... * We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance * Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table * Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We've got it covered through your Sainsburys, Argos and Habitat store discount card! Everyone is welcome at the Sainsbury's, and we're proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. If you're interested in applying and are excited about working with us, but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience - we'd still love to hear from you! Apply today and we'll be in touch (we're also happy to discuss flexible working options (including part time)).