Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Title: Talent Acquisition Partner - Volume

**Salary**: Great Salary & Package plus Benefits
Location: (Hybrid Working) Flexible on Location
Brand: Excellent Travel, Hight Street & International Retailer
Our fantastic Retail client is in a real period of transformation and at the heart of the growth plans is people. With over 11,000 employees and brands across High Street, Travel, International & Online this is a great time to join.
You will partner with key stakeholders and HR/L and D Business Partners to provide a best-in-class end to end talent acquisition experience so that they hire the right people for the business to enable growth.
You will be accountable for sourcing, attracting and onboarding exceptional and diverse talent for non-management levels with the flexibility to hire across multiple disciplines including the High Street, Travel and In Motion business areas. You will use avariety of approaches including direct sourcing, defined distribution channels and social media that are aligned with the company brand, ensuring an effective internal/external pipeline to meet current and future business needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Use external talent data and insight to drive hiring conversations with key stakeholders
- Work with key contacts including the DWP, CTP, local community groups to build our profile in the local communities
- Business Partner and advise hiring managers on best practise recruitment strategies that support the goals and direction of the business including current need and future projects
- Embrace opportunities to participate in TA projects and wider HR team projects
- Collaborate with colleagues in HR Business Partnering, L&D, HR shared service, ensuring all administrative TA tasks are processed effectively and accurately
- Keep up to date with industry innovations in sourcing talent and recruitment
- Problem solves and works through operational problems which may be impeding recruitment delivery
- Produces manpower plans to ensure that we 'flex up' the recruitment team to deliver the volumes required for a successful campaign
- Recruit and manage temp support that are hired to deliver at peak times
- Identify and source temp agencies to be part of our PSL so that when needed we have relationships in place to support with tough to fill locations.
Essential Skills:

- Previous experience of running large scale, volume campaigns for non-mgt recruitment in either a retail, hospitality or FMCG business
- Excellent stakeholder management with a high touch, collaborative, and communicative approach and the confidence to challenge thinking
- Knowledge and experience of working in retail companies/tech or digital hiring/international markets
- Able to think logically and creatively to find the best way to solve problems and get things done
- Proactive and able to prioritise to deliver in a fast-paced, high workload environment
- Experience across the entire talent acquisition process
- Ability to multi-task and manage conflicting priorities and different stakeholders
- High energy, highly motivated and self-directed
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with the rest of the TA team, with a flexible approach to support on any areas which require focus
- Excellent attention to detail, organisation, follow up and time management skills
- Knowledge and experience in developing best practice recruitment tools and utilising linked in and social media to source talent and drive the employer brand
- Previous experience of managing temporary staff for large campaigns
The Talent Group is a specialist recruiter in placing across HR, People & Talent. Please call me to discuss this and other roles that we are currently recruiting.