Head of Talent Acquisition

TYNE & WEAR (Ref 500) Permanent

Circa £60k + Bonus up to 15% + Private Medical Insurance  30 days holiday + Bank Holidays!

Looking to lead a Talent Acquisition team and shape the future direction of Talent Acquisition for a growing company?  This is a fabulous opportunity to utilise all of your experience and creative flair to deliver a fantastic service and experience.

As a member of the senior People team you will:

• Review the current offering from the Resourcing department and make relevant improvements to ensure a professional service is delivered
• Lead the Talent team, support individual development and ensure a great team approach
• Ensure a first class candidate experience, regardless of the outcome
• Create a talent pipeline
• Ensure EDI initiatives are adhered to
• Review and improve onboarding
• Review and enhance the selection processes
• Lead the implementation of appropriate applicant tracking and onboarding systems to ensure an excellent candidate journey and manager experience
• Maximise the potential of technology and social media to ensure a digital first approach, managing website content for the Resourcing function
• Utilise reporting to enable evidence based decisions about hiring and retaining talent
• Personally facilitate appointments to senior posts
• Responsible for search activity/’headhunting’ for specialist roles
• Manage recruitment agency relationships
• Oversee graduate and volume recruitment events
• Manage volume resourcing
• Ensure recruitment is delivered within KPI timeframes
• Ensure new starters are legally compliant.
• Provide resourcing plans and strategies for hard to fill roles
• Create effective attraction campaigns for specific roles

Your background

• Strong track record of leading and delivering resourcing in a fast paced and growing organisation
• Experience of leading and delivering volume recruitment campaigns
• Experience of designing resourcing strategies for hard to fill or specialist roles
• Experience of the design and delivery of innovative and forward-thinking resourcing practices.
• Understanding of relevant legislation and its impact upon recruitment & resourcing approaches
• Experience of utilising appropriate psychometrics for resourcing
• Tenacity and resilience to ensure hard to recruit for positions are filled
• Analytical and reporting skills – the ability to build and analyse resourcing data and reports to enable data based decision making
• Change management experience – ability to deliver change in a resourcing environment
• Stakeholder management skills – gravitas and credibility to work effectively and constructively with stakeholders at all levels and with external stakeholders
• Leadership skills – ability to lead and motivate direct reports and wider people team
• Excellent Microsoft office skills
• Experience with technology based applicant tracking and other recruitment systems
• Project management skills – experience of project managing end to end resourcing campaigns
• Good commercial mindset – understands importance of business delivery
• Ability to challenge appropriately
• Excellent team player