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Octopus Energy Hiring for Talent Acquisition Sourcer Job at London, England Full Time
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Octopus Energy Group is an energy tech company. We use technology to make green electrons cheap and revolutionise customer experiences.
At Octopus, we’re looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your race, gender identity, sexuality, age, family or civil status, disability, religion, or ethnicity.
Help us make a big green dent in the universe. We’re on a mission to drive the global renewable energy revolution, and we need loads more people to help us make our vision a reality.
We’re looking for a Sourcer on an initial 6 month contract and there is a high possibility this will become a permanent role.
You will work closely with our other recruiters and the hiring managers across Octopus Energy – we share ideas and look to continually evolve the way we do things to improve candidate experience and help hiring managers hire amazing people for Octopus.
This role specifically will focus on hiring for our Low Carbon Technology teams as we spearhead this revolution. The roles will vary across different types and levels of Engineers and Installers across the UK. Our new Low Carbon Tech centre is based in Slough where the majority of training will be run out of here. You can read more about the centre HERE
At Octopus Energy, we’re super passionate about attracting amazing talent to join us on our exciting journey. Maintaining an excellent candidate experience throughout the entire recruitment journey is key for us.
This role is be based in London. But you need to be able to access our Slough Centre occasionally.
What you’ll do
- This role is focused on sourcing, screening and progressing candidates through the interview pipelines
- Build great long term relationships with candidates – from screening to offering candidates (that’s the best bit!) to deliver a diverse range of candidates
- Constantly provide an amazing candidate experience and look to always improve this across the team
- Headhunting is a part of the role. You’ll need to source, attract and recruit the best candidates
- Interview candidates for Octopus. Providing a different view and insight for hiring managers is really important… especially if we want to hire the best people for the role and the way we work here
What you’ll need
- You’ll need to know how to screen, attract and source the best talent
- Experience sourcing or recruiting across high volume roles in a fast moving business
- You love to work with all kinds of people – you’ve got no functional shoulder pads – it’s not ‘my team versus other teams’, it’s ‘we’re all working together to change the energy system globally, and I’ll lend anyone a hand’
- You’ll need to interview candidates, so previous experience screening and assessing candidates across a variety of roles for both hard skills and cultural qualities is needed
Why else you’ll love it here
Our company culture – we won best company to work for in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
Flexible working environment – genuine work life balance here, we are in the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together
Relaxation – we don’t count your holidays here, we work hard, and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course)
Equity Options Scheme – you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
Office culture – have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Our offices are also stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee and soft drinks. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks – we call it Family Dinner
Social Events – we sponsor YeoValley’s summer festival, valleyfest, every year for our big offsite Summer party (we take our kids too) and we also aim to have 3 parties a year
Parents – get access to tax free childcare and maternity and paternity pay. We’re always looking for new ways to support parents, during lockdown we created OctoKids TV to help keep your kids occupied and entertained
Your development is important – we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
SmartPension Scheme – employer 5% employee 3% and you can contribute more
Cycle to Work Scheme – to help lower your carbon footprint whilst good for your health
If this opportunity sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
More about us
Octopus Energy Group is an energy tech company. We use technology to make green electrons cheap and revolutionise customer experiences.
Octopus Energy Group is made of 10 businesses in 6 countries across 3 continents. We serve more than 3 million domestic customers, over 25,000 business customers, with 17 million contracted accounts for our entech platform, Kraken.
Octopus Energy Group’s tech arm, Kraken Technologies, enables our innovation. Kraken has created our API driven in-house technology platform, built from the ground up around the customer. It powers the outstanding service, efficiency and smart products we’re using to accelerate the world’s transition to a decentralised, decarbonised energy system.
As well as all that, Octopus Energy for Business supplies green energy to over 20,000 companies, Octopus Electric Vehicles helps make clean transport cheaper and easier, Octopus Energy Services brings smart products into thousands of homes, and Octopus Centre for Net Zero is a multi-disciplinary research organisation helping Governments and industry reach net zero sooner.
The Kraken tech platform has been licensed to support over 17 million accounts worldwide, through deals with Good Energy,E.ON, Hanwha and Origin Energy.
We also proudly enjoy a 5-star TrustPilot ranking from our customers. We were named the Company that’s done the most in the past year to advance UK renewables at the REA Awards 2019, and most recently, our proudest award, that of Best Company to Work For.
At Octopus, we’re looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your race, gender identity, sexuality, age, family or civil status, disability, religion, or ethnicity.
