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Head of Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
Roheela Khan MSc, BA (Hons), AssocCIPD Recruitment Operations Director
Job Description
HEAD OF RECRUITMENT & TALENT ACQUISITION
“We are looking for a Superstar Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Specialist”
£75-100000 + Car Allowance + Bonus + Benefits
Milton Keynes (Hybrid Working)
This is a unique opportunity to build something from the ground up for a high growth and key player within the commercial finance sector. You will deploy your track record as an exceptional recruiter to shape our client’s recruitment and talent acquisition function, creating fresh new processes and playing a key role in their aggressive growth plans which include multiple office locations.
Success in this role requires a high energy personality; exceptional intellect combined with pragmatism; a hands on, tactical, operational, and strategic approach; amazing attention to detail; a multitasker and project manager; tenacity and commitment to deliver and continuously improve.
About you:
You will be university degree educated to minimum 2:1 and may have joined a very results focused recruitment team serving the fast paced and demanding financial services, investment banking, wealth management, Big 4 consultancy, or other FTSE 500 corporate. This experience could have been gained agency/head-hunter side or as part of an inhouse or RPO led recruitment and talent acquisition team.
Perhaps you have reached a ceiling in your current development or perhaps business goals don’t align with yours and are not scaling at rate that you know you could achieve, whilst also reaping more lucrative rewards.
Having had a successful track record, you are confident and ready to forge your own path by joining our client’s high growth and financially secure SME business. It has an impressive senior leadership team and is rapidly becoming a top twenty player in its specialist sector.
You will relish the opportunity to take a blank sheet of paper and to make your mark by establishing a best-in-class recruitment and talent acquisition function. You will be able to work collaboratively and at pace, forging relationships with stakeholders, role modelling our client’s awesome, meritocratic, and dynamic brand and culture. You will be creative and innovative.
The Role:
A varied and busy role responsible for attracting and recruiting talent. You will work with line managers to understand their requirements, bringing job descriptions to life, deciding on the best route to market, whether that be via direct sourcing or working with a specialist recruiter or developing other appropriate talent attraction strategies including organising and attending recruitment events.
You will deliver a proactive recruitment service, undertaking initial screening and first stage interviews and shortlisting, through to onboarding, ensuring a great experience for both the candidates and hiring managers. You will upskill and coach line managers on best hiring practices and interviewing techniques. You will also source and implement a ATS ensuring it is future proof for our client’s business and able to capture data and trends to support business growth.
This a fantastic role for a high potential who really wants to own the recruitment life cycle, elevating it to a best in class, dynamic and responsive service to the business.
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THE COMPANY
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THE ROLE
The role of Executive Recruitment Consultant - for our Interim Executives Division will be a good combination of new business development, account management and both consultative and transactional recruitment. You will be working as part of a very successful and established team that enjoys a strong reputation in the marketplace. You will be involved in the whole recruitment lifecycle from developing client relationships, attending client visits, new business development, advertising, interviewing and managing your candidates through a client's selection process to the point where you place the candidate in a suitable role. You will have access to state of the art recruitment software and a candidate and client database that is proactively and regularly updated by our recruitment support team.
You will be responsible for sourcing, screening, interviewing and consulting with candidates on their career aspirations as well as forging strong relationships with clients and companies to understand their requirements and corporate culture to ensure that you source the very best candidates for them. You will develop and expand your interim executives division and identify new business opportunities. You will also be expected to work as part of a team and develop excellent working relationships both internally and externally.
THE PERSON
- Graduate calibre with lots of drive, ambition, and commitment.
- Experienced in recruiting managerial and executive level candidates.
- Experience of recruiting interim executives advantageous
- Experienced technical and competency/behavioural interviewer.
- CIPD level 3 or 5 would be highly advantageous but not a prerequisite.
- Psychometric test or coaching qualifications would be advantageous but not a prerequisite.
- Articulate with the ability to build rapport and relationships with senior stakeholders and decision makers within the corporate marketplace.
A consultative, solutions focused approach.
Experience within the interim executives recruitment sector or experience of recruiting temporary managerial staff.
Excellent customer service/key account relationship management experience.
A hardworking and committed individual who is looking to contribute and progress within a growing company whilst maintaining their work, family life balance.
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In return we offer a relaxed but challenging, team orientated, highly focused environment within a growing business. As well as a competitive salary we offer bonus/commission and a range of other benefits.
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Are you a master of managing pension schemes and employee benefits? Then you're exactly the person our client needs as their Pensions Manager. The company are headquartered in the West Midlands, and this role is on a maternity cover basis, with a handover commencing in mid-October 2023. As such, there is a high level of urgency in recruiting for this role. Currently the team work on a hybrid/remote basis so you can be based anywhere in the UK if you are close to good rail/road commuting links into the West Midlands for regular meetings. The contract will last up to 13 months and our client will offer a completion bonus as its imperative that the Interim Pensions Manager completes the project.
As Pensions Manager, your primary focus will be to manage our client's pension schemes and employee benefit arrangements.
As the main point of contact for external pensions providers and internal stakeholders, you'll need to be a confident communicator with a knack for numbers and spreadsheets.
Our client is a large organisation, part of a global plc. So, the role splits into 60% managing and dealing with queries from internal employees, and 40% of your duties will be the cyclical annual tasks. You may also have to deal with questions from the broader HR and Finance teams.
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To excel in this role, you'll need plenty of experience managing corporate pension schemes, Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit, preferably gained in-house or at a pensions consultancy firm. You should also have a Pensions Management Institute (PMI) qualification or equivalent experience. Above all, you should be passionate about employee benefits and rewards, with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
This role is working on a hybrid basis, meeting on-site occasionally at our client's Solihull office in the West Midlands. Our client offers flexibility on days, so you could work 5 full days or potentially opt for reduced hours across 4 days if preferred.
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As Pensions Manager, your primary focus will be to manage our client's pension schemes and employee benefit arrangements.
As the main point of contact for external pensions providers and internal stakeholders, you'll need to be a confident communicator with a knack for numbers and spreadsheets.
Our client is a large organisation, part of a global plc. So, the role splits into 60% managing and dealing with queries from internal employees, and 40% of your duties will be the cyclical annual tasks. You may also have to deal with questions from the broader HR and Finance teams.
As such, you can expect a high volume of enquiries, so your organisational skills will be tested in prioritising your workload accordingly. You'll also have a right-first-time approach and demonstrate a calm, level-headed character.
You'll be responsible, with the support of the Benefits Advisor, for managing all matters relating to pension schemes, as well as other benefits like life assurance, company cars, private medical insurance, and voluntary offerings. You'll liaise with pension schemes formally and informally, write newsletters and letters, and even host webinars and events to help employees better understand their pension options.
To excel in this role, you'll need plenty of experience managing corporate pension schemes, Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit, preferably gained in-house or at a pensions consultancy firm. You should also have a Pensions Management Institute (PMI) qualification or equivalent experience. Above all, you should be passionate about employee benefits and rewards, with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
This role is working on a hybrid basis, meeting on-site occasionally at our client's Solihull office in the West Midlands. Our client offers flexibility on days, so you could work 5 full days or potentially opt for reduced hours across 4 days if preferred.
You must be able to commit to a minimum of 13 months of work to handle the annual tasks, such as preparing annual statements and reports and hosting the yearly trust meetings.
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They want someone who can bring personality and flair to the role, so if you're ready to take on this new challenge, email your CV quoting reference LX 1595572 to or call us on 01905 381 320.
