Resourcing & Partnerships Officer - CIDO (12 months) in Coventry

Coventry Building Society has an exciting new role for a Resourcing & Partnerships Officer within CIDO. The role holder will support the resourcing of CIDO resources to meet strategic objectives, engaging with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and influencing outcomes. Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal stakeholders and relationship building with external resourcing partners to ensure that Coventry Building Society is considered a partner of choice.

In the support of CIDO, the role holder will provide line management style support to third party resources, compiling service schedules and augmentation resources and ensure that these are managed effectively. Take responsibility for efficient on-boarding, induction and off boarding activities and provide the CIDO Leadership team with management information, support, and guidance to ensure that the CIDO headcount is compliant, effective, well utilised and delivers value. Maintaining service business continuity and resilience you will be expected to work across all three team disciplines (Third Party, Permanent and Contingent resourcing). Taking a flexible approach to workload management and have the ability to continuously maintain your skills and knowledge in all three disciplines.

This role requires you to be based in Coventry at least 1 day a week on a Wednesday, with flexibility to be onsite for collaboration with peers and other CIDO events.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society.

You will be responsible for the line management of third-party resources via Society system and will act as the point of contact for any operational queries. Taking responsibility for the management of the engagement, managing extensions, the leavers processes and on-boarding/off-boarding for third parties and contingent.

For this role you will need to have:

• Effective relationships with multiple external and internal resourcing partners, attending regular meetings to brief requirements and gain progress updates.
• Understanding of technology/access pre-requisites and where necessary highlight contractual issues and agree process improvement plans.
• Ability to work closely with Supplier Relationship Managers on procurement and supplier management activities, including contractual due diligence.
• Maintain accurate data and deliver insightful MI tracking recruitment.
• Proactive approach with a growth mind-set; developing your skills and learning will come naturally and the ability to deliver under pressure and to tight time scales.

Experience in these areas would also be helpful:

• Management of the quarterly headcount budget, monitoring professional services Statements of Work and completing regular Data Management reviews.

Full time - 35 hours

In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK's original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey. Trusted by over four million people, we are a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We are officially recognised as a 'Great Place to Work' and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing. We are serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you will build more than just a career with us.

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we will consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer. We are proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

Location: Hybrid