Talent Acquisition Executive - Retail (South Division)

• Full recruitment life-cycle management; fromfull taking a full detailed brief to actively headhunting and successful offer management.
• Build an external bank of talent within your related disciplines, through proactive recruitment and networking events, and innovative talent pipelining strategies.
• Proactively build the JD employer brand externally within your network, utilisingsocial media, events,and careers fairs.
• Ability to understand the specific skills, matching these with the requirements of the role.
• Relaying initial candidate insights to the hiring manager at critical points such as interview and offer management stages.
• From first candidate touch point,be a professional advocate of the JD group.
• Maintain a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process, ensuring candidatesare well informed and looked after at each stage of the recruitment journey.
• Ensure business areas follow a structured interview process, identifyinghigh performing candidates within the market that match our business requirements and values.
• Provide in depth acquisition data to the Talent Acquisition senior leadership team and line managersfor review.
• Collate, upload,and manage live vacancies onto ATS, Linkedin and other resourcing outlets.
• Manage the applicant tracking system to filter and update online applications for vacancies.
• Assistwith careers fairs off site and virtually.
• Ensure all job descriptions are up to date and utilised throughout recruitment process.  

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE NEEDED: 

• Experience of recruiting roles within a similar environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in Stakeholder manager / influence throughout hiring cycles
• An excellent external network & knowledge of good acquisition practises in other leading organisations which is kept up to date
• Experience of presenting acquisition data such as cost to fill, time to hire.
• HR & ATS systems knowledge.
• Proficient on Linked-in Recruiter.
• Data-driven mindset and experience with recruitment marketing
• Ability to build & Maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders/ Hiring Managers
• This role will require frequent travel across Southern Regions (London Central, South & Wales) as well as our head office in Bury, Greater Manchester.