Internal Recruiter in Stoke-on-Trent

This role focuses on the full recruitment lifecycle, driving the acquisition of skilled professionals to support our global construction and infrastructure projects.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the businesses Recruitment Strategy.
• Develop a knowledge of the business requirement to identify candidates and suitability for each requirement.
• Identify and sign off vacancies with Hiring Managers.
• Track recruitment data metrics and ensure transparent updates.
• Manage resource tools including job boards such as Indeed and LinkedIn.
• Manage relationships.
• Being flexible, within reason, in terms of hours of work to suit the needs of the business.
• Resource planning - facilitate resource meetings across the business, ensuring minutes are taken and distributed.
• Publish current live vacancies across job boards, ensuring that job advertisements have been reviewed.
• Review and shortlist applicants that have applied via LinkedIn / Indeed.
• Undertake initial telephone interviews with potential candidates including briefing them on our interview process and managing their expectations effectively.
• Ensure all relevant paperwork has been completed and filed ahead of the interview stage i.e. application form & GDPR.
• Create diary invites for interviews ensuring that suitable meeting rooms are booked for in-person interviews.
• Conduct interviews with Directors / Line Managers.
• Ensure that the recruitment tracker is maintained and updated in a timely manner.
• Create and issue offer letters with approval from the Hiring Manager / HR.

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Good communication and organisational skills.
• Thorough attention to detail.
• Ability to always act with confidentiality, integrity & discretion.
• Personable, approachable and adaptable.
• Ability to function in a high-pressured environment working to deadlines.
• Starting to build and manage professional relationships with a variety of personality types including senior leadership and fellow colleagues.
• Experience using Workday is advantageous.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Good experience in recruitment, ideally as an in-house recruiter or similar.
• Good understanding of the full life cycle / 360 recruitment process.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with all levels of seniority.
• Starting to build relationships both internally and externally.
• Good understanding of HR processes.
• Sound knowledge of the Construction sector is preferred.

Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief. Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities through its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to age, sex, race (including colour, nationality, ethnicity or national origin), religion or belief, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave or any other protected characteristic under UK and European law. All such decisions are based on individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.