Resourcing Consultant

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VN-9122

Permanent

Birmingham

£21,300 - £29,000

26 May 2018

An opportunity to join our growing inhouse recruitment team in Birmingham. This role will cover a range of specialisms across multiple locations.

We are seeking an established recruiter to join our team in Birmingham.

You will join a busy, multi site and close-knit team and will manage the full recruitment cycle from qualifying a role to onboarding. The role will take responsibility for a wide range of roles and specialisms including Marketing,Finance, Change and Sales. The ability to engage and manage a wide range of stakeholders is essential. Your key deliverables will include:

Recruitment:

  • Oversee the authorisation process, qualify the role requirements with a scoping meeting, agree selection method/process and manage expectations of the hiring manager around timescales for delivery. Complete all relevant documentation in support of these activities.
  • Source candidates through appropriate channels; qualifying candidates and present shortlist with objective reasoning to the hiring manager.
  • Outline recruitment process to candidates, ensure interviews arranged (via admin support) and all parties are fully briefed and equipped with the correct selection tools.
  • Prep and debrief each candidate by phone and confirm with email either directly if candidate direct or via the agency. Work with the hiring manager to confirm offer details and justify objectively the selection. Manage offer negotiating, contract formulation and on-boarding.

Target Orientation:

  • Ensure that direct hires, time to hire and quality of data/MI is is in line with objectives. 
  • Continually improving business knowledge and awareness to promote best practice, improve service and cost efficiency.

Subject Matter Expert:

  • Specialising in Resourcing Processes. Agree the right recruitment process for individual projects / campaigns.
  • Design and implement a variety of assessment tools to ensure that candidates are correctly and fairly assessed. Highlight risks to the hiring manager and how they can be mitigated.
  • Communicating with the appropriate stakeholders (Senior Manager's, HR and wider Resourcing team) to ensure the right decision is made and be the trusted advisor with market expertise.
  • Drive collaboration across the business.
  • Share ideas and be innovative and creative with recruitment strategies.
  • Help set and shape the resourcing agenda and help prioritise the projects / needs.

Experience:

  • A recruitment background is essential. Preferably within an inhouse setting  however an agency background would be considered.
  • Ideally you'll have experience of recruiting for professional services and have managed a broad range of roles (Finance, Marketing, Change etc)  
  • A Financial Services industry background is desirable or experience of working in a relatable corporate environment. 
  • Experience of managing the end-to-end recruitment cycle, which includes:
  • Initial briefing with the hiring manager
  • Writing and publishing job advert across various sources (careers site, job boards, LinkedIn) 
  • Sourcing candidates using reactive and proactive methods.
  • Pre-screening candidate and short listing
  • Advising on appropriate selection process and recruitment best practice.
  • Negotiating offers and communicating outcomes to candidates.
  • Experience of directing third party agencies and negotiating terms is desirable. 
  • Experience and knowledge of Boolean searching and the proactive use of online sources to contact candidates is desirable.

Skills

  • A confident communicator and able to work alongside a wide range of stakeholders including managers at all levels of seniority, HR and third parties.
  • Ability to learn, retain and apply complex processes, policies and best practice.
  • Able to quickly establish a good understanding of L&G, our industry, our culture and environment.
  • Meticulous with a strong attention to detail. Accustomed to providing detailed and accurate MI for reporting purposes.
  • An able to manage multiple priorities and manage a high workload.   

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, dependants' pensions, at least 22 days’ holiday, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

For more information please contact daf.rees@landg.com. 

 

About L&G

We take pride in being there for our customers. We help them deal with whatever life has in store and support them in achieving financial security; and that’s thanks to the talented and dedicated people who work with us. For us, ‘social responsibility’ is not just a buzzword. It defines us and runs through everything we do for our customers and as an employer. And working with us, you’ll get a competitive reward package and have the flexibility and autonomy to deliver your personal, business and career goals.

About the business area

From HR and Digital teams through to Group Finance, Risk and Corporate Comms – our Group function support our businesses across the UK and abroad. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.

About L&G

We take pride in being there for our customers. We help them deal with whatever life has in store and support them in achieving financial security; and that’s thanks to the talented and dedicated people who work with us. For us, ‘social responsibility’ is not just a buzzword. It defines us and runs through everything we do for our customers and as an employer. And working with us, you’ll get a competitive reward package and have the flexibility and autonomy to deliver your personal, business and career goals.

About the business area

From HR and Digital teams through to Group Finance, Risk and Corporate Comms – our Group function support our businesses across the UK and abroad. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.