Recruitment Consulant

Scottish Power are looking for 2 Recruitment Consultants to join them on a 12 month initial contract.

Role: Recruitment Consultant

Business: Scottish Power Corporate

Location: Scottish Power HQ, Glasgow/hybrid style working

Duration: 12 month contract

Rate: Negotiable

Title of Line Manager: Recruitment Lead

Job Purpose Statement

The recruitment consultant will provide a proactive, future focused consultancy service to support their allocated business area, to meet their current recruitment needs as well as pipelining for the future.

Accountability Statements

• Develop and deliver recruitment plans and strategies to meet the resourcing requirements of the business.
• Develop attraction and selection plans and recommendations using appropriate channels to recruitment, based on future growth plans and recommendations in terms of the recruitment budget to maximise SP's reach across the industry.
• 3Vacancy management of non-standard roles and co-ordination and management of recruitment campaigns ensuring any recruitment content is in line with our internal guidelines and employer brand proposition.
• Build and maintain a talent pool of potential candidates with relevant communication strategies both internally and externally, using social media and internal and external communication tools and methods.
• Promoting ScottishPower as an employer of choice, which may include contributing to the consistent updating of the external careers site, our social media strategy and representing ScottishPower at job fairs/career events, ensuring a joined up approach with other departments to deliver an excellent candidate experience.
• Managing recruitment growth or attrition plans, employing project management techniques to ensure growth targets are achieved on time and identifying and managing risks
• Proactively identify, analyse and disseminate marketing intelligence and benchmarking to colleagues, stakeholders and hiring managers, using these to inform recruitment plans and approaches.
• Providing oversight and coaching to Recruitment Advisers managing vacancies within your allocated business area, ensuring you hold a holistic view of the delivery within your area and standards are maintained throughout.
• Identify manager training and support requirements, signpost relevant training, deliver bespoke recruitment and selection training as needed and feed in any emerging requirements into the wider People & Organisation team, including specifically strategic resourcing.
• Monitor, assess, review and continually improve the candidate experience.
• Monitor own recruitment performance data and that of allocated business area, identifying areas for improvement for both the recruitment team and your stakeholder group
• Keeping abreast of best practice approaches and industry trends within recruitment and direct sourcing
• Developing own networks for sourcing and employer branding building within the industry
• Advising and coaching hiring managers on best practice for interviews and assessment
• Offer a creative approach to sourcing great talent - focusing on attracting passive candidates to roles, talent pooling and building engaged communities from which to source

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Previous in-house recruitment knowledge, preferably in the utilities industry. Alternatively previous technical recruitment experience within a specialist and consultative agency environment
• Experience of working in a consultative capacity to ensure delivery of recruitment plans
• Expert on recruitment and selection methodologies, including championing best practice, to provide solutions to enable ScottishPower to attract and select the right calibre of candidate, including in relation to both volume and specialist roles and which to deploy for different types of roles
• Knowledge of relevant legislations, policies and practices, surrounding recruitment, assessment, selection, GDPR and eligibility to work in UK
• Knowledge of a range best practice recruitment methodologies and experience, including technical recruitment techniques such as creation of effective Boolean search strings
• Ability to work in partnership with the business to understand and solve recruitment challenges
• Able to capitalise on the use of appropriate technologies and approaches to promote SP as an employer of choice
• Ability to formulate a recruitment strategy to generate suitable candidates for the business
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels

Minimum Criteria (mandatory)

Criteria Essential/Desirable

• Knowledge of employment legislation, especially that affecting recruitment and selection
• Demonstrable experience of a range of best practice recruitment, assessment and selection methodologies and experience in their use
• Experience of working within a recruitment and selection environment, direct sourcing talent for technical or niche roles.