Resourcing Business Partner - 6-12 month FTC in Reading

Are you an experienced on-site recruiter or maybe you’re an agency recruiter who is looking to change direction and work internally on a Zentral site? Are you focused on delivering exceptional customer service and looking to further your career within the RPO space? Or perhaps just looking for a new role that will challenge you and help you make your mark in the recruitment sector? If the answers to the above are a yes, then here at Pertemps we have a fantastic opportunity for you.

We’re looking for a specialist recruiter in our operations team to join our internal recruitment experts. As a Resourcing Business Partner in the UK’s largest Water company, Thames Water, you’ll be embedded into the company’s vision and culture and build relationships across the organisation. We’re looking for an individual who has a passion for recruitment, thrives in finding the right people for the right roles and can deliver results in an environment of continuous improvement.

Here are the key responsibilities:

• Build and manage the relationships with key business stakeholders, HR Business Partnering team, candidates, and our outsourced preferred suppliers (PSL).
• Ensure we have talent pipelines existing to meet the future resource requirements of the business.
• Attend weekly/monthly meetings to ensure you’re kept informed with the recruitment requirements in your area.
• Work in collaboration with other Resourcing Business Partners in the team, sharing best practice and ensuring that a consistent approach is adopted across Thames Water.
• Ensure that the end-to-end recruitment process supports a positive experience to our candidates at all times.
• Direct source and recruit candidates from a variety of sources, including profiling and head-hunting, sourcing via LinkedIn and alternative job boards.
• Conduct in-depth telephone assessments of potential candidates through comprehensive interviewing and work history review.
• Consult with Hiring Managers to obtain a full understanding of each vacancy and their requirements, providing insight on routes to market and salary benchmarking.
• Agree a recruitment strategy with each Hiring Manager to meet set SLA's and KPI's.
• Conduct comprehensive 360 recruitment for project-based hiring.

What we are looking for:

To be successful, you’ll have demonstrable experience within Engineering and/or Project Management recruitment, ideally gained within an Agency or In-house environment. Experience of direct sourcing different levels and securing placements in short timescales is essential, as well as experience of liaising with external agencies and off-site clients. We work in a fast-paced environment and no two days are the same, therefore you’ll need to be able to prioritise your workload, work under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines. You’ll need to be fully PC literate on Microsoft Office and able to pick up new systems with ease. At Thames Water, we work with SAP and a bespoke applicant tracking system and it would be great if you have worked on a similar system. We also work in a structured, process-driven environment, so you must enjoy working to a process, ensuring you are following the correct recruitment methodology and frameworks at all times.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a difference, and you’ll be working with like-minded people who have our client at the heart of everything they do. We’re committed to giving you great training and we’ll make sure you have everything you need to thrive in this role. Pertemps is full of hard-working and dedicated staff who have one vision - to provide value and the best possible service to our client.

If you have strong relationship management skills, a passion for recruitment and are looking for a role where you can make a difference, this is the ideal role for you! In return for your hard work, you will receive a competitive salary, 24 days holiday increasing to 29 with length of service and a good contributory pension scheme. The role is based in our client's fantastic central Reading based offices with some flexibility around working from home due to mirroring the client’s hybrid working policy.