Head of Talent and Recruitment

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester Metropolitan University Full time

Manchester Metropolitan University is a creative, confident, passionate, and proud institution, seeking to implement its ambitious new People Strategy - A Great Place to Work. With over 4,000 staff members and around 40,000 students - we are a big institution with even bigger ambitions. We are proud to be an integral part of the great city of Manchester, but our impact reaches around the globe. Our success is driven by our people, and therefore finding and hiring the right people at the right time is key.

This is your chance to join us in an exciting new role as Head of Talent and Recruitment in the People & Organisational Development Team and help to shape the staffing community of our university.

Helping our colleagues grasp their potential, realise their ambitions and exceed expectations is what drives our People and Organisational Development team. We work collaboratively to create the ideal environment for our colleagues to be exceptional and to deliver the experience our students deserve and expect. Working as the trusted voice of HR across the university, the team is encouraged to deliver innovative approaches with lasting impacts.

As a Head of Talent and Recruitment, you will lead, develop, and deliver an innovative talent and recruitment service that will help to deliver the University's Strategy and People Strategy. Working collaboratively with the Reward and Recruitment, HR Business Partnering teams and key stakeholders across the University to deliver a best practice approach to a world class recruitment service. You'll be customer service focussed, have the ability to establish creditability and respect and build strong working relationships with colleagues, be able to work in a collaborative, proactive, innovative and solution focussed manner to achieve outcomes and to drive continuous improvement.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a recruitment specialist with substantial prior experience in a fast-paced, customer-focussed environment; with the ability to lead, challenge and motivate others. You will have a pro-active approach, with strong communication and analytical skills and will have knowledge and understanding of:

- Recruitment and employment legislation and best practice
- Attraction campaigns, employee value proposition and business engagement strategies
- Recruitment processes, tools, and systems

Manchester Metropolitan University is always evolving, and this is an incredibly exciting and varied role for someone willing to lead and be part of a journey with us as we strive to achieve great things. This a great opportunity to join us in a role where you get to support both service and cultural change, enabling positive developments in our recruitment practices and people strategy. Along the way, you'll also enjoy a competitive rewards and benefits package, including a generous local government pension and 35 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays and Christmas shut-down.

If you have the drive to further develop your abilities, we will give you the opportunities and support you need to enhance your career.
- Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion._



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