Recruitment Advisor

Howdens are currently seeking a Recruitment Advisor to join our Nationwide Recruitment Team, responsible for covering both our East Midlands and North East regions. This unique role will offer a hybrid working arrangement, with a base at our office in Howden, East Yorkshire three days a week and the expectation of making regular depot visits across both regions.

This is a permanent role where you will identify the best talent in the market for our core depot roles across your business areas. As Recruitment Advisor, you will be the primary point of contact for all recruitment needs within our East Anglia and North East regions, you will provide a personalised and tailored service, addressing the specific challenges and needs of each Depot Manager. You will also be proactive in developing creative approaches to meet current and future recruitment needs, which involves the creation of talent pools to ensure the ongoing success of both our existing and new depots.

To be successful in this role you will have proven high-volume recruitment experience. You will enjoy collaboration and partnering with others, while also having the ability to adapt to changing business needs in a fast-paced environment.

**What you will be doing as a Recruitment Advisor**
- Collaborating with Depot and Area Managers to ensure that recruitment needs are met within agreed time frames
- Attending recruitment events, careers fairs and working with local schools and colleges.
- Offering ideas and solutions for hard-to-fill vacancies, particularly in remote locations
- Providing your Business Partner with weekly updates on the status of all live vacancies
- Ensuring that recruitment best practices are being met

**What we need from you as a Recruitment Advisor**
- Experience of working on both specialist and volume recruitment campaigns is essential.
- Demonstrable examples of managing a variety of stakeholders with complex challenges and priorities.
- Sound knowledge of employment law, market trends and experience of managing employer branding initiatives and full cycle recruiting.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to build relationships at all levels within an organisation.
- An excellent communicator who can express ideas in an articulate and confident manner.
- Strong time management skills with the ability to coordinate, prioritise and manage own workload within a high paced environment.
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and creativity.

**What we can offer you as a Recruitment Advisor**
- Competitive salary and quarterly bonus scheme (up to 10%)
- Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Staff Discount
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional Reward and Recognition events

**About Howdens**:
Howdens Joinery, the UK's leading trade kitchen supplier, offers a diverse range of products in kitchens, joinery, and hardware. With 800+ depots across the UK and Europe, we are the top choice for over 460,000 trade professionals. Our sales reached circa 2.3bn last year, and our ambitious growth plans are fuelled by our strong, entrepreneurial spirit and dynamic work environment. We are proud to be voted one of the **top 10 best big companies to work for**.

**How to apply**:
We’re building a future where world-class service, innovation, and sustainability are embedded within our DNA. If Howdens sounds like the kind of place where you can build and develop your career as a Recruitment Advisor, then we’re keen to hear from you.