Talent Acquisition Lead

7 months ago

Upper Poppleton, United Kingdom Pavers Full time

We have recently been awarded a 3* World Class Accreditation in our latest companywide engagement survey (Best Companies), but this newly created role will be vital in pushing us further forwards and making sure we attract, retain, and develop people who align with our Pavers DNA. We are actively investing in personal and professional development, mental health training, and individual wellbeing to ensure every colleague can learn, develop, and grow through our Pavers Academy, and this role is key to ensuring we continue to improve our proposition further.

Pavers has been trading for over 50 years and is a highly profitable family owned-and-run retail business with a strong balance sheet, over 185 retail locations, and a rapidly expanding digital presence. We also own the Jones Bootmaker, Padders, and Herring Shoes footwear businesses, remain acquisitive, and employ over 1800 people. We are one of the UK’s Top 10 Retail Employers according to Best Companies, are Carbon Neutral, and have donated more than £1.5m to charity in the past 4 years.

**Key Responsibilities of our Talent Acquisition Lead include**:

- Lead our Recruitment team to deliver a joined-up strategy for attraction and development of talent across Pavers in line with the DEI strategy, scoping out policy, process and associated toolkits and training.
- Develop a talent acquisition strategy demonstrating robust knowledge of the industry and company ongoing workforce needs.
- Embed a culture of high performance and continuous improvement within the Recruitment function to ensure processes and practices are continually evaluated, adapted, and improved upon.
- Workforce planning to ensure an increased EVP through identification of key operational and strategic capability gaps.
- Track, evaluate and report on internal mobility schemes to demonstrate success in progress and promotions.
- Lead the development of early careers and internship programmes.
- Work collaboratively with the people team to support talent pipelines.
- Build the employer branding through effective comms strategies.
- Introduce career counselling for all colleagues.
- Develop the onboarding and probation period strategy, guidelines, and toolkits.
- Overhaul of the role and person specification portfolio.
- Lead the design of internal coaching in recruitment techniques and practices.
- Ensuring Pavers DNA is a key component in all policies, processes, and workflows.
- Manage the recruitment budget, making data-driven recommendations to ensure the most effective allocation of resources and ROI for the organisation.
- Track, evaluate and report on the success of key metrics to senior organisational leaders.
- Bring strong thought leadership, external insight, and best practice to the design of all talent, performance, and succession planning interventions.

**Knowledge & Qualifications required to be our Talent Acquisition Lead**
- Demonstrable experience having successfully led a recruitment team previously.
- Experienced in the design and implementation of best practice recruitment and talent strategy, policies, and processes.
- Ability to build organisational capability through effective talent attraction methodologies.
- Capable of establishing credibility and rapport with a broad range of senior stakeholders
- Passionate about building strong and diverse talent pipelines that meet organisational needs.
- Experienced at implementing transformational change projects.
- A strong communicator, able to write clear and concise policies, processes, and toolkits.
- Experience of internal consulting and guidance
- A natural coach and mentor with an ability to foster relationships with all levels of the team, to relate well with others, to listen effectively, and to help employees at all levels achieve their career goals.

**Pay & Benefits for our Talent Acquisition Lead**

**Salary**: Circa £45,000 depending on experience plus:

- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous Staff Discount
- Hybrid working (up to 2 days per week WFH) and flexible start and end times - core hours 9.30am-3.30pm
- Death in Service x3 salary
- Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)
- Single person’s private medical plan
- Company Contribution Pension 7.5% matched
- Free access to Retail TRUST (Wellbeing & Financial Support)

**About Us**

At Pavers we look for confident, upbeat people and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so we always try and do the right thing by our people. We strive for diversity of thinking across the business and believe strongly in supporting our local communities. In 2018 we donated over £2.2m to establish the Pavers Foundation, with the specific purpose of providing grants for causes important to our colleagues in the areas of health, education, and community. In terms of the environment, we are constantly seeking to reduce our impact. Since 2021 we have been fully carbon neutral

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