Talent Acquisition Specialist

**Wilmington PLC are looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist**
**Talent Acquisition Specialist**
**Location**: Hybrid - Home - with travel to London - E1 8QS
**Salary**:£30k - £35k DOE
**Term**:Full Time, Permanent

**Why do we want you?
**You are an experienced recruiter/talent acquisition specialist who is adept at managing stakeholders within a recruitment function or similar. You are a hands on team player and you have a strong commercial awareness and up to date knowledge of therecruitment marketplace and talent availability ideally within the information and data space.

**A bit about us.
**Wilmington plc is a company with a difference. Our core purpose is helping our customers to do the right business in the right way. Over the years we’ve grown by acquisition developing a portfolio of businesses who provide Governance, Risk and regulatoryCompliance solutions to enterprise customers and professionals across the globe.

**Main Purpose of Role**
Here at Wilmington our Talent Acquisition Specialists provide highly professional, commercial, and value-added recruitment and selection support across a varied business portfolio.

We use our skills, knowledge, and experience to attract a diverse pool of talent for our business and our creativity to support the building of an effective employer brand and value proposition.

Our role is to deliver a flawless recruitment service to our business, ensuring our market knowledge is up to date to enable us to provide advice and guidance throughout.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage and develop direct recruitment channels such as job boards, headhunting via social media platforms and professional networking websites.
- Manage agency relationships and negotiate rates with external service providers to support the acquisition of talent in hard to fill roles.
- Manage assessment centres as well as sitting on interviews when required.
- Drive and promote Wilmington’s employer brand and employer value proposition, positioning us as an employer of choice.
- Explore the new recruitment channels and make recommendations to the relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor the job market and prepare analysis and summaries of the main job market movements and trends.
- Reach the defined targets for hiring (time, costs, quality).
- Build relationships with stakeholders and collaborate and liaise closely with each of the respective People Partners and the Chief People Officer as internal talent is promoted, backfilled, replaced.
- Report the progress on assigned job vacancies on a regular basis, communicate early warnings, and provide regular feedback about the performance of the recruitment process in general as well as against budget, time, and quality targets.
- Support and/lead recruitment related projects.
- Support and/lead hiring manager, hiring excellence training.

**Skills and Experience Required**:

- Experience of working in a recruitment function involving managing a portfolio of multiple stakeholders or similar.
- Competent in writing SEO job advertisements and working with an ATS (ICIMS preferred but not essential).
- Up to date recruitment market knowledge.
- Commercially astute.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills (with both internal and external stakeholders).
- Highly organised.
- Experience in managing recruitment related social media posting and interaction.

As a portfolio Company, we are all different at Wilmington. We understand the power of bringing difference together and we celebrate the innovation and creativity it brings through diverse experience, knowledge, and perspectives.