Talent Acquisition Partner

**About us**

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by over 27,500 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo. Our agility and entrepreneurial spirit, alongside award winning development programmes, enable innovation and success while creating exciting and rewarding career choices.

As we move forward, our customers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful NGP business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully. committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

**The Role**

Reporting to the Regional Head of TA, you will serve as a recruitment business partner for talent acquisition with expertise in our Global Supply Chain function. You will work within a hybrid team of Imperial and RPO Recruiters to ensure that we attract and hire diverse talent with critical skills and experience.

The Talent Acquisition Partner / Coordinator support the talent acquisition process through pre-hire and post-hire activities.

**Principal Accountabilities**
- Ensure recruiting is delivered as part of the broader P&C and talent and capability strategies
- Assist with recruitment and interview process
- Schedule phone, video and in-person interviews for Recruiters and Hiring Managers
- Manage the offer process, including creating and routing offer letters for approval
- Coordinate all aspects of the on-boarding and off-boarding processes
- Provide other administrative support to recruiters as needed
- Responsible for delivering a transactional workload whilst able to see the wider context and plan
- Actively tracks and reviews recruitment KPIs, preventing talent gaps and actionable insights to drive continuous improvement
- Posting positions to external resources such as job boards, social networking sites, etc. and ensuring recruitment marketing activities are on track and monitored
- Provide Functional expertise and insight around talent acquisition challenges and best practices
- Champions the Talent Acquisition and Employer Brand strategies; role modelling our Connections behaviours

**Key Relationships**

**Internal (excluding direct team and manager)**
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team
- Talent Acquisition team
- People & Culture teams - local and global
- GSC Hiring Managers
- Global function teams

**External**

**Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience**

**Essential**
- Experience of managing a demanding requisition load and recruiting for a variety of manufacturing and supply chain roles
- Experience working within an inhouse recruitment function, ideally within a global matrixed organisation
- Knowledge of employment law and immigration regulations
- Excellent communication and organisational skills and high attention to detail
- Strong team player with a collaborative approach
- Experience of working with global stakeholders - internal or external

**Desirable**
- Understanding of global media channels and social media usage and metrics
- Additional languages - not essential
- Experience working with recruitment media, offline media, digital media, social media channels across different countries
- Experience designing or managing recruitment, networking or talent attraction events - in UK or globally

**What we offer**

Imperial Brands offer a competitive package of salary, bonus scheme, pension and 25 days holiday (with an additional 4 days on top to cover the Christmas period and bank holidays) and hybrid work.

**Next steps