Group Talent Resourcer

**The Opportunity**

The Brownsword Group have created arguably the most iconic collection of historic countryside and city centre hotels, all wonderful properties set within beautiful grounds and cities, all with their own stories to share. Generosity, quality and welcoming hospitality is what they do very well. Being exceptional hoteliers has been the core of the operation, creating a successful hospitality business.

**Role**: We are recruiting for a Group Talent Resourcer to join our developing hotel group. Reporting to the Group HR Manager, this newly-created role will drive recruitment activity across our hotels, through a blend of hands on recruiting and coaching and guiding hiring managers source the best people for our business. As our in-house Group Recruitment Executive you will have a key role to play in identifying and filling priority and hard to fill vacancies, creating and managing a bank of flexible workers and developing resourcing campaigns and initiatives to support recruitment.

**Location**: This role is based from our central office in the beautiful heritage city of Bath, although regular travel to our hotels and other locations (e.g. recruitment fairs) will be a key part of this position (you will need your own transport for travel; we will cover your travel expenses and you can stay at the properties you visit if needed). Our central support team for Andrew Brownsword Hotels and ABode hotels work out of our beautiful town house office in central Bath, as well as working remotely from our properties across the UK when needed.
Our stunning office in the heart of Bath is a great location to work from, as well as to collaborate with the hotel central support team and wider group businesses, which all all based under one roof.

**Key tasks you will be doing**:

- Working within our small, friendly HR team, you will be the one leading on recruitment activity and campaigns for hard to fill posts, providing our hiring managers with advice and guidance on recruitment solutions, therefore reducing our agency worker spend.
- Support hotel General Managers and hiring managers recruit in line with our group values, making sure we hire based on the right mix of behaviours, skill, and competencies.
- Managing our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) end to end, utilising all of the features to drive recruitment.
- Work with and be the key contact for all our recruitment platform providers and partners
- always getting the best out of them.
- Update and manage our recruitment advert content, making sure it is always up to date, relevant and optimised.
- Attend key recruitment events and job fairs across the UK to help drive recruitment and create a consistent awareness of the hotel group and our brands.
- Run and/or coordinate recruitment open days at our hotels
- making sure we convert interest into applicants and hires.
- Help to create and manage all group and hotel recruitment collateral, and content, including team images and videos.
- Be part of the wider group HR team, helping and supporting in all HR areas, where needed.

**What you'll need**:

- A recruitment background within hospitality, with good contacts and connections within the industry.
- A love for recruiting people
- To be tech and social media savvy and very confident with online digital platforms (we like digital HR and to avoid paper wherever we can)
- Experience using/ managing an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) would be very beneficial.
- To be good with data
- and to be able to use metrics to simply analyse recruitment performance.
- Good commercial awareness, and capability to work at pace and really well under pressure.
- Be happy to sometimes work on your own and sometimes in a shared office space, whilst communicating across our business remotely.
- Ability and mindset to travel for work when needed, including overnight stays (at our hotels) at times.
- To be team orientated, self-motivated and driven to succeed.
- To be committed to your own personal development and be able to learn and work on the go...we prefer coaching rather than loads of classroom style training
- To be a great communicator with all round good people skills.
- Great attention to detail and excellent written communication.

**To say thank you, we have many perks**:

- Great salary and benefits
- we'll chat about these more during the recruitment process.
- Working from a newly developed office in Central Bath.
- Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
- Excellent discounts across our family of hotels - you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
- We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Everyone