Talent Acquisition Manager

The Talent Acquisition Manager will be responsible for full-cycle recruitment from set-up, through to solution design, branding and testing ensuring high quality standards throughout the hiring process. Entrusted with an ongoing quest to discover talent, build a strong employment brand and ensure great relationships with both candidates and employees. Management of apprentice and graduate recruitment programmes and building relationships with academic establishments to source future talent.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Attraction and retention of staff by being an ambassador for the brand.
• Deliver an excellent customer experience through high quality, well documented processes, and engagement (briefing, solutions, communication and reporting).
• Be actively involved in ensuring a social media presence of the brand, including development of the people section of the Company's website.
• Network across the civil engineering, utilities, and construction industry to enhance the brand and reputation in the marketplace.
• Own the candidate experience at all stages of the recruitment process, including maintaining regular contact between offer and commencement.
• Develop a complete understanding of business objectives to effectively shape and plan recruitment requirements.
• Advising on a broad range of talent acquisition initiatives such as pipelining, diversity and manpower planning.

PEOPLE

• Facilitate a centralised recruitment service to the business promoting fairness, inclusion and respect.
• Manage all hiring needs and build ongoing pipeline of suitable candidates aligned to the organisation's values and culture.
• Ensure all candidates are logged and processed through the Sage HR system.
• Support large scale recruitment events such as job fairs, direct hire events and other community events.
• Manage apprentice and graduate recruitment and talent pipelines, including the planning and co-ordination of assessment days.
• Participate in the induction of new starters.
• Encourage employees to be brand ambassadors.

EXCELLENCE

• Introduce new and innovative strategies for attracting top talent, focusing on pipeline and development for key hiring positions.
• Appropriately manage available time, addressing internal and external demand, organising against priorities, ensuring ownership of all assigned actions.
• Seek continuous improvement opportunities in addressing feedback to ensure lessons are learnt and adjustments made to the approach taken across all activities.
• Build and maintain cohesive relationships with all employees across the group.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Desirable 5 Years experience or significant experience within a similar role.
• Experience of full life cycle talent acquisition.
• Significant direct recruitment experience across all levels, including candidates working on site or in the field.
• Experienced of talent pipelines.
• Good working knowledge of the recruitment industry.
• Proficient use of social media and job boards.
• Working knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and databases.
• Able to persuade and influence others using logic and reason.
• Well developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to influence a variety of audiences.

Personal qualities:

• Good communicator, people person.
• Flexibility of approach.
• Strong business and strategic ethics.
• Motivated by results - Achievement and results driven.
• Strong emotional intelligence and humility.
• Respects other peoples views and takes them into account.
• Understanding and sensitive to social and cultural differences.
• Problem solver - can apply a range of analytical techniques to understand complex information issues, considers a range of options and their effects.
• Committed to continuous improvement and innovation.