Recruitment Partner in England

At Impact Food Group, we are more than just a school caterer. We are on a mission to create a positive food culture and help more students enjoy healthier, better-quality food. Making a positive social impact is at the heart of everything we do. We are constantly learning, evolving, and improving every way, every day.

Through our industry-leading brands Innovate, Hutchison, Cucina, and Chapter One, we cater for over 550,000 students and operate in more than 900 schools nationwide, growing every year. We are now looking for a talented and highly organised Regional Recruitment Partner to join and play a vital role in supporting our business. Guided by our values of integrity, boldness, impact, empathy, and community, you will help us shape a workplace and culture we can all be proud of.

The Regional Talent Partner is responsible for developing, implementing, and running an efficient and cost-effective talent acquisition strategy. This role is all about finding the best talent in the market and promoting Impact Food Group as an employer of choice for Food Catering within the Educational sector.

• Responsible for the delivery and management of the end-to-end recruitment journey across your region, ensuring the candidate's experience is second to none, and be the champion of promoting Impact Food Group as an employer of choice to prospective candidates.
• Accountable for the day-to-day recruitment management of your region to include recruiting Ops Managers, Executive Chefs, Chefs, and Business Support.
• Advise hiring managers on different approaches to talent attraction and the recruitment process, whilst ensuring all recruitment activity/campaigns have an established ROI and success is measured.
• Collaborate with the wider recruitment team on learnings from recruitment campaigns, to ensure best practices are shared.
• Develop initiatives as part of the employer brand and recruitment strategy to promote Impact Food Group as the place to work in the sector.
• Prepare weekly live vacancy updates and monthly recruitment KPI reports (ROI, time to hire, applications to interview, interview to hire ratios, etc.).
• Advertise opportunities via our ATS system (Talos) and ensure all agreed attraction methods live in line with agreed timescales and are reportable within the system to ensure ROI is measurable.
• Manage advertising response and ensure all candidates are contacted within agreed set time frames at each stage of the recruitment process, whilst maintaining clear communication with those involved at each stage.
• Proactively source candidates from job boards and social media platforms via Boolean searches, networking, and headhunting direct from competitors.

• Host open days and recruitment fairs/events and attend networking events to keep your finger on the pulse of the recruitment market.
• Value recruitment agencies and suppliers as an extension to Impact Food Group recruitment team, to build and maintain effective relationships ensuring that our brand and values are promoted with external talent in the right way.
• Manage the initial screening of applicants based on CV utilising telephone interviews/Teams.
• Manage the offer process and the new starter process in a timely manner.
• Provide all managers with the tools to be self-sufficient in hiring their teams and keep them updated on alternative initiatives/resources for talent attraction.

• An expert in Operations & Chef/Chef Manager recruitment, who is passionate about our brand and what makes our people great.
• A proactive, self-starter who uses their initiative to think outside of the box on how to source, attract, and identify talent in your role.
• Experience of active sourcing and building candidate pipelines through social media, job boards, and LinkedIn.
• Passionate about delivering the candidate experience, and how this can add value to our employer brand and our success as a recruitment team.
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail throughout the recruitment journey.
• Excellent timekeeping and organisational skills, whilst being able to manage and prioritise your own workload.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with people at all levels.
• Able to work independently and enjoy being part of a team.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.

If you are a collaborative, solution-focused professional who thrives in a busy and purposeful environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us and be part of a team that is transforming lives through the power of food, making a genuine difference for students across the UK.

• Monday to Friday working.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Access to IFG rewards (money off high street).
• Yearly Summer Party.
• Centrally based offices.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. Impact Food are committed to the safeguarding of children, and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.