Senior Recruiter

Responsibilities

The Senior Recruiter will manage the end-to-end recruitment process for multiple business units, ensuring high-quality and diverse candidate shortlists. They will also build strong partnerships with hiring managers and develop talent pools to meet current and future business needs.

Requirements

Candidates must have expert recruitment experience and a deep understanding of recruitment best practices, including talent pooling and market mapping. Excellent business partnering skills and a people-first mindset are essential for success in this role.

Skills

• End-to-end recruitment
• Stakeholder management
• Talent pooling
• Market mapping
• Business partnering
• Candidate experience
• Head office hiring
• Resourcing technologies
• Social networking
• Vacancy consultation
• Recruitment best practice
• Commercial awareness

Benefits

• Colleague discount
• Pension scheme
• Life cover
• Performance-related bonus
• Annual holiday allowance
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health cash plans
• Salary advance
• Employee assistance programme
• Maternity leave
• Adoption leave
• Paternity leave

About this role

In a nutshell 
The Senior Recruiter is responsible for the end-to-end recruitment of roles for
multiple business units using expert knowledge to ensure the delivery of high
quality and diverse candidates, customer satisfaction. 

We’re looking for Recruiters who put the candidate and hiring manager experience
at the heart of everything they do - influencing stakeholders and working
collaboratively and flexibly as part of the wider recruitment team to meet
business needs. You'll also add value by developing and sharing quality market
insight and candidate pools through a combination of networking, research and
knowledge sharing. 

This is a fixed term (6 months) role initially, hybrid working.

About the Role

* Take ownership of the end-to-end recruitment process for allocated business
units to a successful conclusion for all roles - ensuring minimal external
agency usage.
* Deliver engaging recruitment experiences, working in collaboration with
Recruitment colleagues to do so, and communicating proactively throughout.
* Manage candidates through the end-to-end recruitment process until day 1 and
fully on-boarded, in a way that strengthens and conveys a positive employer
brand.
* Develop excellent partnerships with hiring managers to understand their
talent requirements and bring high quality, diverse shortlists against
vacancies.
* Build quality, diverse talent pools for key roles, that focus on current and
future business needs to reduce time to hire and enable quality succession
planning.
* Complete targeted marketing mapping activities to give external insight and
potential sources for future. 
* Responsible for leading detailed vacancy consultations with hiring managers,
delivering to this for all roles up as allocated by the Recruitment Manager,
defining the local recruitment approach quickly and efficiently.
* Proactively obtain feedback to ensure candidate and stakeholder satisfaction
using information and available data to identify issues, problem solve and
implement appropriate changes.
* Lead & participate in recruitment projects as required.

What you need to know

* Expert recruitment experience, understanding the theory or knowledge of
recruitment best practice in the external market place, including Talent
Pooling and Market Mapping.
* People-first mind set which centres your approach around candidate experience
and excellent business partnering skills.
* Experienced recruitment professional with demonstrable expertise in head
office hiring.
* Knowledge and experience in the use of multiple resourcing technologies,
platforms and social networking to source candidates and build
candidate/talent pools.
* Proactively increases own knowledge and commercial awareness whilst keeping
abreast of new innovations in attraction methodologies. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet
every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market
leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our
website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real
opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning
Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital,
Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you
will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our
customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands,
including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands
like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient,
championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting
place to build your future.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed
whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to
try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else
across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support
you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and,
where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer
you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with
colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and
instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the
discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your
future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in
our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10%
of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too.
You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional
week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go
further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans,
salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well
access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if
you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that
matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26
weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity
leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length
of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

About Sainsbury's

Retail · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in London · founded 1869