Talent Acquisition Specialist

Job Title**:Talent Acquisition Specialist**

Reports To: Chief HR Officer

Department: People Team

Based at: Iver, Buckinghamshire, we offer flexible working

Responsible for: Identifying and engaging top talent in a creative way, improving, and contributing to our employer brand, and scaling our recruiting practices as we grow as a business. Lead on recruitment activities to source awesome talent to support the growth of the business and managing the end-to-end recruitment process.

GRIDSERVE is a tech-enabled sustainable energy business whose purpose is to deliver sustainable energy on the scale needed to move the needle on climate change. To achieve this, it has pioneered a proprietary Sun-to-Wheel ecosystem that involves creating the most advanced hybrid solar + battery farms, developing and managing the UK’s most popular electric vehicle charging infrastructure and launching an innovative electric vehicle leasing programme. Together, this will ensure the rapid decarbonisation of transport is both equitable and affordable.

Headquartered in the UK, the multi-award-winning company has been predicated on sustainability, while its guiding values around people, product and the environment are proactively used to guide every decision from top to bottom. GRIDSERVEbelieves a better and more sustainable future is within our reach. Now is our time to #deliver.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Working alongside the CHRO and the Head of People, develop and deliver a recruitment and selection strategy to ensure that the organisation can deploy resources in the most cost effective and efficient manner
- Work in partnership with stakeholders to develop job descriptions, establish resource needs and deploy proactive recruitment initiatives which support the recruitment of high-quality team members
- Confident and creative proposer of advertising content, and effective sourcing and assessment approaches, across a wide range of professional roles from apprentices, graduates to experienced hires across a range of skill sets
- Provide a first-class resourcing service to recruiting managers by providing proactive, innovative and imaginative recruitment solutions while supporting a culture of continuous change and improvement
- Build and maintain internal and external networks to gain a solid understanding of the recruitment market and competitor landscape, provide market intelligence and suggest innovative ways to attract new talent
- Provide regular data analysis and vacancy reporting to key internal stakeholders, to inform future resourcing decisions
- Produce regular reporting on all recruitment activity, e.g., cost v benefit exercise, time to hire

**Recruitment**:

- Lead on full cycle hiring processes and partner closely with hiring managers on different hiring requirements
- Own accountability for the maintaining and enhancement of our Career Website
- Assist in drafting and finalising job descriptions, evaluating market pay bands and acting on market information
- Conceptualise and execute applicant sourcing strategies via LinkedIn and various other platforms to engage with passive talent
- Engaging key recruitment partners depending on technical complexities of the role or the level of role
- Working alongside hiring manager to set up suitable assessments and competency interviews
- Analyse and summarise findings of psychometric assessments against role requirements and company values
- Lead the onboarding process, ensuring smooth integration of new members into the GRIDSERVE team.

**Other Generalist Responsibilities**:

- Manage the induction process across the business, ensuring all new joiners or movers are armed with the knowledge they need to succeed in their roles
- Be in tune with the latest market-driven innovations within HR and technology and continually review internal systems to ensure we have best in class tools, optimising internal systems to their full potential
- Working alongside the Head of People, help deliver HR processes related to talent management including succession planning and talent identification and development
- Adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes including anti-bribery policy and Environmental and Quality Management System (compliant with ISO 9001 and 14001).

**Skills required**:

- Proven experience of working in a similar in-house TA role where you delivered various attraction strategies, including careers page, EVP, employer brand and referral scheme within a rapidly growing company with responsibility for all resource requirements
- Previous experience will include time spent on developing and deploying a recruitment strategy to source best talent and scale the resourcing strategy with business growth
- Talent acquisition experience must include recruitment of talent within technical, IT or engineering,
- Excellent interviewing skills including competency and behavioural techniques and use of psychometric assessment for recruitment decisions
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