Recruitment Sourcing Specialist
The primary location for this role can be Edinburgh/London/Milton Keynes (hybrid)
In a nutshell
As a Sourcing Specialist, you’ll be responsible for delivering end-to-end sourcing lifecycle - finding, engaging and hiring the right talent - across multiple business areas and disciplines. You’ll help us to source quality and diverse, passive candidates through multiple channels, supporting our longer term talent pipelines and inclusion goals. You’ll also provide data analytics and insights to our business to inform wider recruitment strategies working closely with our Recruitment team. We’re looking for colleagues who think longer term, have a passion for nurturing relationships and providing an excellent candidate experience.
Who are we?
We’re proud of our heritage as the UK’s first supermarket bank. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore, we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.
We’re a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers’ financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.
What will I be doing?
Confidently operate direct sourcing technologies - engaging with both new and existing candidates through our CRM, Talent Insight Tools, LinkedIn, Job Boards, Marketplaces and other social media platforms
Responsible for fulfilling sourcing requirements in accordance with business demand/headcount budget by building an effective talent pool of potential candidates that focus on current and future business needs
Delivering recruitment events collaborating closely with our recruitment operation teams - both in person and virtually - to build our network and pipelines and attract quality & diverse talent to power our business
Reduce cost & time per hire by converting passive candidates into our business and enabling our business to save to reinvest
Owning recruitment content on our social media platforms, making sure we’re creating content that engages talent at all levels
Develop good relationships externally and in collaboration with the wider recruitment team, Hiring Managers and stakeholders to ensure that work is focused in the right way to deliver on the business requirements, keeping others well informed throughout the sourcing process
What do I need to know and show?
Recruitment or sourcing experience and understanding the theory or knowledge of recruitment best practice in the internal or external marketplace, including Talent Pooling
Experienced recruitment or sourcing professional with demonstrable expertise in a number of areas
A passion for Diversity and Inclusion in all approaches
Understand and be compliant with the corporate data protection and confidentiality policies ensuring we follow the circle of trust
Excellent relationship building, collaboration and influencing skills
A passion for providing excellent candidate experience
Good communication skills & attention to detail
Our benefits
In addition to the all-important salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits…
Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table
Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We’ve got it covered through your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat store discount card
Cycle to work scheme
Our culture
Everyone is welcome at the Sainsbury’s Group, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours within their working days, giving plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
If you’re interested in applying and are excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience – we’d still love to hear from you! We’d also be happy to discuss more flexible working options such as job shares and part time working.
As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.
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