Talent Partner

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We’re looking for a Talent Partner to work closely with our hiring teams to understand their priorities, help them design and execute successful hiring process and attract a diverse set of candidates.

Our team focus on delivering an outstanding service to ensure we recruit the very best people possible. You’ll be working closely with the People Team and your stakeholders to provide effective recruitment solutions into those business areas.

If you’ve done this before you will have an idea of what it takes to juggle the follow day to day:

• Stakeholder Partnering: Building trust-based professional relationships which engage and establish credibility with varied stakeholders. Understanding their needs, identifying current and future requirements. Presenting a positive and unified attitude, with a natural ability to adapt swiftly and a commitment to getting it right for your stakeholders.
• Candidate Attraction: Leading in direct and proactive sourcing; attraction strategy, talent pipelining and pooling; assessment and selection.
• Candidate Experience: You’ll act as an employer brand ambassador ensuring all of our candidates benefit from an exceptional experience throughout all stages of their journey whilst driving the overall attraction and engagement strategy.
• Commercial Awareness: Using your commercial awareness to build insight and a deep knowledge of the key business levers to deliver effective and proactive end-to-end recruitment solutions and develop strong talent pipelines.

• You pursue everything with energy, you’re highly driven, decisive and have a strong need to finish. With resilience in abundance, you can be counted on to exceed goals. You’re known for seizing opportunities and achieving what you set out to do.
• You’re a persuasive communicator and can generate a high level of engagement from others. You’re both open and credible and can fluidly adapt with the situation.
• You’re inquisitive. You like building a deep knowledge of the businesses you work in and use that understanding to identify opportunities. You keep up to date with competitor activity and wider market trends to ensure you’re always ahead of the game.
• You’re humble and ready to develop. You won’t have all the answers and are ok with that. You’re comfortable receiving feedback and are proactive to work on ways to improve your own performance. 

You’ll love this role if:

• You get your kicks out of trying new ways of working and testing new recruitment technology to aid how you work
• You have a positive attitude to change and comfortable working with ambiguity

What we offer

💰 A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan
✈️ Untracked holiday
🏡 Hybrid working – three days in the office, two days from home
⚓ Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, employee assistance program & more
👪 Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender
❤️ Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
🏥 Private medical insurance for you and your family
🚗 Electric vehicle leasing
🌍 The option to work overseas up to a month per year

Our Values 
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.   

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.