Recruitment Sourcing Specialist (FTC)

Recruitment Sourcing Specialist (FTC)

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

• Coaching and influencing others outside of the team on the end to end sourcing process and best practice, challenging when required to drive a great candidate experience

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

• Advocacy of the Sainsbury’s brands and promoting the Sainsbury’s brands as a great place to work

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…

• We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance

• 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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