Talent Acquisition Specialist – Home & Clothing (UK Office)
| Posting date: | 18 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/12955985/889021 |
Summary
About the role
We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Head Office Talent Acquisition team!
The Tesco TA team play a meaningful role in the development and success of our business - our world is fast paced, demanding and hugely rewarding. We are one of the largest in-house TA teams in the UK, so if you love recruitment and are passionate about your career, there are endless opportunities to develop and progress here.
This role would be managing recruitment across Home & Clothing within Commercial Product, a real mix of roles at various levels across Buying, Merchandising, PR and Design.
The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Helen Flesch.
You will be responsible for
- Attracting and hiring great talent for Tesco Head Office through full end to end recruitment, with a focus on direct sourcing.
- Successfully delivering recruitment activity within tight timeframes.
- Build excellent relationships with our hiring managers to fully understand requirements, keep them up to date on progress and provide a first class, end to end service.
- Applying expertise and insight to inform recruitment plans and hiring decisions, providing a consultative approach and guiding hiring managers throughout.
- Defining and promoting a positive Employer Brand through networking, social media, events and other means.
- Using social and professional media platforms to attract passive and active candidates, building talent pools and candidate pipelines to service future hiring needs of the business.
You will need
- Solid expertise in the 360-recruitment delivery cycle, with the ability to influence and advise at all stages of the process.
- Substantial recruitment experience ideally covering multiple Head Office teams.
- Excellent professional media skills and proficient in using platforms such as LinkedIn to identify great talent.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, ensuring all stakeholders and hiring managers are kept well informed of project progress.
- Niche talent “mining” skills, the ability to use boolean and x-ray search strings to find prospective candidates in less than obvious places.
- Very comfortable using Excel and Applicant Tracking Systems and using the systems to deliver insight and analytics to the business.
- In house experience gained within Home & Clothing functions (Buying & Merchandising in particular) would be preferable, however a passionate recruiter who has recruited for this role type within an agency environment and who demonstrates pro-activity to move in house would also be considered.
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Colleague bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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