Talent Acquisition Specialist

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced recruiter to join our team as a Resourcing Specialist. If you’re looking for a chance to work to your full potential and partner strategically with your functions, this could be a great role for you.

This role will partner with our Retail function and you will be responsible for all senior recruitment into our stores in the south, as well as recruitment into our pharmacies. 
You'll own the resourcing activity, partnering with the business to deliver a full life-cycle recruitment service. This is a fast-paced role, perfect for someone who is motivated by the opportunity to add value and influence at a senior level. 

This role benefits from a 4.5 day working week (you can pick your half day!), the team currently spends 2 days a week together in the office, with the flexibility to work from home for the other 2.5 days. 

Role responsibilities:

Business partnering with key stakeholders in our retail function alongside the wider People team
Gather insight from conversations with candidates and utilise knowledge to influence processes and our candidate journey
Utilise data to update key stakeholders with internal and wider market trends
Understand the priorities and focus of your business areas to ensure the recruitment practices reflect the requirements of your functions
Develop our employer brand through different activities such as filming and sharing videos and managing and designing attraction campaigns
Coaching and developing hiring managers to upskill assessor interviewing techniques
Manage hard-to-fill vacancies and manage multiple roles during busy periods
Headhunt & approach the best talent via attraction plans & methods to support building strong candidate pipelines
Have a solid understanding of the external talent market and competitor activity
Ensure a first class candidate experience making sure candidates feel valued and welcomed
Drive our Diversity Equality & Inclusive hiring agenda 
About You

Our ideal candidate will have a passion for delivering a great service and will be keen to add value to their functional partners that goes beyond filling vacancies.
Ideally you'll have experience of working in-house or in an agency and will be familiar with a 360 recruitment process
You’ll need to be a great communicator and enjoy building relationships with candidates and hiring managers
A strong sense of ownership and a determination to succeedWe’re happy to support the right candidate in developing their knowledge of employer branding activity, data & insight and D&I initiatives - we’re looking for someone who is passionate about providing a great service to stakeholders and candidates and wants to learn and grow in their role.

About our head office

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. You’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.
 
We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
 
Our business is fast-paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. 
 
Some of the benefits you can expect as follows:
15% colleague discount in our supermarket and convenience stores, plus an additional 10% card for a friend / family member
Generous holiday entitlement
Four and half day working week* with flexible working hours
Company pension contributions
Perks with over 850 retailers
   Please note: We're unable to consider applicants who are not able to travel to Bradford twice a week.

About The Company

From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer. 

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK in over 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet. 

Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and around 97,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our (url removed) service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are food-makers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.

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