Talent Acquisition Specialist

6 days ago


Watford, United Kingdom Wunderman Thompson Commerce Full time

Talent Acquisition Specialist required to join our talent team who form part of our wider Employee Experience team.

This is an exciting time for Wunderman Thompson Commerce as we are currently undergoing significant growth and looking to increase our headcount across the business.

Due to continued growth, we are seeking to appoint an additional Talent Acquisition Specialist to work alongside the Talent Team and be responsible for a high volume of predominantly permanent roles, as well as contract and freelance positions across theUK and Europe.

Joining as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will be working alongside the talent team and internal stakeholders, making sure you fully understand the business needs before taking the roles strategically to market.

You will be expected to manage the full end to end recruitment process, so a confident and consultative approach is required with a focus on identifying mainly technical resources.

Being part of the Commerce arm our services cover:

- Digital Strategy
- Customer Experience
- eCom Technology
- Commerce Operations
- Amazon/Marketplace Services
- Shopper Marketing
- Social Commerce
- Data Services

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Conduct primary telephone interviews, Ensuring thorough qualification that meet the requirement
- Build and maintain healthy relationships with internal stakeholders ensuring they are kept regularly up to date with changes and developments to the vacancies
- Building and maintaining talent pools
- To focus on achieving the monthly and annual target for the team, actively working on vacancies to maintain low agency spend.
- Create innovative ways to attract future talent such as organising tech meets ups and finding new recruitment tools
- Maintain recruitment CV database - workable
- Responsibility for completing the recruitment administration

**You**

Talented, enthusiastic, focused, eye for detail, professional. Keen to learn and to challenge for smarter ways of doing things; a team player proud of their work who wants to share it. You like working in a fast-paced environment and are ready to inspireoutstanding online shopper experiences for consumers and brands, no matter what product, service, sector, device or channel

You will have a customer-first mindset, with the maturity and initiative to do what it takes keep our clients happy, including some working at client locations. When our clients win - we win

**We need you to be really great at**:

- Proven track record in IT and Technology recruitment; preferably in-house but RPO and agency is also considered
- Demonstrated ability of the end to end recruitment lifecycle in a broad range of technical and digital positions across the whole project life cycle
- Experience working in a fast-paced recruiting environment with the ability to take initiative with little direction
- Excellent working knowledge of Boolean searches (X-Ray search knowledge desirable)
- Working knowledge of popular job boards and social media sites (LinkedIn)
- Ability to build strong relationships across the business at all levels
- Highly developed executive search skills (e.g. attraction and selection of talent)
- Work with hiring managers to create and maintain formal job descriptions
- Stay informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques to be competitive and creative with recruiting practices
- Experience of working with an ATS system is desirable ideally workable.
- IT Skills (Word, Excel)
- An interest in the digital world, keen to follow industry trends and savvy enough to "talk shop" with technical people

**Attributes**
- Customer orientated
- Driven, articulate, confident and enthusiastic in order to meet demanding targets
- Interpersonal skills and an eye for detail
- Excellent communication skills

**Wunderman Thompson Commerce** is a global Commerce consultancy that applies strategy, technical know-how and outstanding design to help its ambitious clients grow through Commerce solutions.

**How?**By creating inspirational and shopper journeys. It’s why we work with some of the most exciting brands around such as Bosch, DFS, Johnson & Johnson, MAC, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell, Specialized, Tempur and Tiffany & Co.

**Tell me more** We’re an inclusive group of more than 1500 expert thinkers and doers stationed across more than 20 global offices including our new, state-of-the-art offices in Watford, and two agency offices in Central London. Our reputationis based on having the best in the business - people who are inspired yet straight-talking, and who really want to understand not just our clients but their customers. We are passionate about innovation in everything we do, and proud of what our people achieve,empowering and respecting every one of them.

Together, we keep our clients and their customers inspired and ahead through digital, future-ready Commerce solutions and services. When our clients win - we win.

As our business grows internationally, we’re seeking new people who share our values and work ethic. We especially want to encourage more women to join, and take a key role in shaping some of the best Commerce sites and experiences in the world.
- At Wunderman Thompson, a WPP company, we are committed to actively building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued and heard, and is treated with dignity and respect. As leaders and creative partners acrossindustries, it is our responsibility to cultivate an environment reflective of our greatest asset; our people. We believe that this commitment inspires growth and delivers equitable outcomes for everyone as well as the clients and communities we serve._



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