Talent Acquisition Lead - Volume Recruiter

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Job reference 319503
Talent Acquisition Lead - Volume Recruiter
Competitive salary, annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time 
Royal Mail, Pond Street, Sheffield, S1 1AA

We have a great opportunity in this newly created role for an experienced Talent Acquisition Team Leader to join a new volume recruitment team. You will be responsible for the overall management of a team of 7 recruiters and fulfilling high volume talent attraction across the UK, leading the team, exemplifying strong performance management and professional development for your team members. 

Crucially, this role will ensure we maintain, develop, deploy and monitor high quality talent management activities including assessment centres and enhancing our current TA strategy to market. This role is integral in driving business ambition to provide a healthy pipeline of talent, across various key BUs, where there is an always-on approach to knowing and growing our talent.  

This is a hybrid role out of our Sheffield office with travel across national sites as per stakeholder requirements. 

About the role

• A key part of the role will be working collaboratively with teams across the business including but not exhaustive, Early Careers and Customer Experience Leads/HRBPs to understand specific regional challenges, identifying, and deploying solutions, where required.   

• You will be involved in designing, building, and maintaining the volume attraction plan – advising and deploying the most efficient and cost-effective routes to market, focusing on plans to address identified hard to recruit roles. 

• Support the Head of Talent Management and local HR communities to deliver key workstreams relating to talent management at both a strategic and tactical level, operationalising across the business. 

• Provide high quality data analysis, talent analytics and insights to evaluate and inform the talent management strategy, generating insights from both internal and external sources. Collate and report on recruiting trends, including local conditions, and competitive institutions to develop longer term recruitment plans and deliver at external attraction events. 

About You

• Strong knowledge of talent management best practice and desire to develop thinking in this area. 
• Excellent collaborator who can coordinate the activities across multiple teams to ensure project deliverables. 
• Excellent data and analytics skills with the ability to present insights in a meaningful way that drive decision making. Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills. 
• Excellent stakeholder skills, with the ability to operate, collaborate and influence at all levels of the organisation. 
• Strong team leadership skills including coaching and performance management. 
• Ability to work at pace, connect the dots and be a self-starter, with a high degree of resilience and comfortable dealing with change. 
• CIPD/REC qualified, desirable. 
• Experience delivering high volume TA projects; focus on assessment centres and implementing new initiatives. 

Extra Benefits

•    RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
•    Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
•    Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
•    Supportive and generous company sick pay
•    Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a two stage face to face interview process consisting of competency based and role specific questions alongside a presentation.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people. 
 

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you. 

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. 

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: 04th October 2024. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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