Recruitment Manager - Experienced Hire - Northern Ireland - 12 FTC

Recruitment Manager – Experienced Hire

12 Month Fixed-term Contract

Level 3: Assistant Manager

Location: Belfast or Derry/Londonderry
Hybrid working – currently a minimum of 1 day per week in the office

The Opportunity

You will be leading Recruitment for Northern Ireland across all service lines on a maternity cover fixed term basis, ensuring that recruitment plans are successfully delivered.  You will balance the need for quality candidate and client experience with business imperatives such as diversity targets, reducing agency reliance and cost per hire. 

Your key responsibilities

Team management and contribution 

• Managing a team of recruiters with a strong focus on performance management and driving excellent client and candidate experience.
• Skills analysis of your team to ensure that skills gaps are identified early for those needing more support and stretch opportunities are identified to retain high performers.
• Providing coaching and mentoring, as well as handling any disciplinary/performance issues.
• Driving direct sourcing and reducing the reliance of agency usage to ensure that recruitment targets for the service line are met.

Partnering with the business 

• Business partnering across all service lines in Northern Ireland – working with a range of senior business stakeholders, mainly at a Partner level.
• Attending Service Line Management meetings to maintain knowledge of business plans, identify resource needs and issues and deliver appropriate recruitment plans.
• Providing valued added support to business on best practise recruitment and selection process, routes to market, use of assessment and selection tools, media and resourcing technologies.
• Establishing strong relationships with different stakeholder groups such Talent Shared Services, Resourcing, Operations, HR and the business to remain abreast of key issues and to keep recruitment strategy on track.
• Demonstrating an understanding of the key business drivers and understands the role of recruitment within the context of the overall business objectives.
• Monitoring the effectiveness of recruitment processes and systems and adapts them (where appropriate) to help the business recruit more effectively.

MI and reporting 

• Ensuring the team utilises the recruitment system(s) effectively so that data is maintained with integrity; understands the best sources of data to feed into a report and their level of relevance
• Running reports and using the reports to drive the commercial drivers of the team (agency reliance, CPH and D&I).
• Using MI to ensure that the team is agile in its way of working (balanced ratio of roles per recruiter) and that MI is used as a key element of business case for team changes
• Discussing the story behind MI with business stakeholders to drive key performance indicators of our team. Able to discuss achievements and challenges that the MI highlights with stakeholders with a future focused view. 

Skills and attributes for success

• In-house recruitment experience gained either within professional services or via RPO
• Excellent stakeholder management skills. Solution focused and able to adapt style to different stakeholder groups
• Accomplished people management skills - able to lead, motivate and inspire the team to deliver recruitment plans
• Commercially driven and focused on meeting recruitment teams both for stakeholders and Experienced Hire recruitment team
• Excited by innovation in the recruitment sector and can identify innovation which will enhance candidate and stakeholder experience

To qualify for the role you must have

• Recruitment leadership experience alongside leadership experience. This may be as a Manager, or as a lead through projects or programmes.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Understanding of latest employment legislation and key issues surrounding immigration
• Advanced knowledge and experience of core assessment and selection tools

What we look for: 

• Someone who is comfortable with change and able to drive change with their team

What we look for

• Curiosity, resilience and the ability to drive improvement and change.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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