Airbus Hiring for Talent Acquisition Partner at Portsmouth Full Time

In Portsmouth, we design and manufacture advanced satellites and systems for telecommunications, Earth observation, navigation and science programmes. Our recent missions include Solar Orbiter, the scientific mission LISA Pathfinder; and the Sentinel 5P, Aeolus, and Biomass Earth observation satellites. We’ve been growing this business for several years and are now increasing our UK Recruitment team to help meet the increased demand.

You will sit within the Portsmouth site HR team, working in close proximity to your stakeholders in the business, on a hybrid working pattern of 2 to 3 days per week in the office and 2 to 3 days remotely. You’ll work flexible hours (with no core hours on Friday afternoons!) and use the latest Google tools for communication and collaboration. You’ll also be supported by your TAP colleagues as part of the TA Community of Practice – a network of our fantastic expert TAPs spread across our UK sites.

Day-to-day, you will manage every aspect of recruitment on your portfolio of vacancies, from initial briefing through to offer stage, hiring a broad mix of skills. Predominantly focused on attracting and sourcing technical / engineering profiles, you’ll need to use every technique you’ve gained as an experienced Recruitment professional to find the best people for Airbus.

You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

Your Main Tasks and Responsibilities

Partner with hiring managers to understand the organisation’s requirements and help to build job profiles that meet business needs

Use your relationships with internal stakeholders and your knowledge of the recruitment market to influence the Talent Acquisition approach of the business

Define the most appropriate sourcing strategy, channels and social media to identify and attract the most talented people (using a mix of passive and active sourcing)

Create attractive, compliant and diversity-friendly job adverts to promote your vacancies

Screen applications, assessing their potential using the latest tools and technologies

Actively contribute to the candidate selection and decision making process

Organise and conduct candidate interviews, leading and owning the interview process as the HR representative

Use LinkedIn daily as your main tool for building brand awareness, growing and communicating with your EJ network, gathering market intelligence and (through LinkedIn Recruiter) directly sourcing candidates

Via our Communities of Practice, contribute to innovative, international and cross-divisional talent acquisition and employment marketing projects

This role will involve occasional travel (possibly with an overnight stay) for internal meetings. Trips will mainly be to our other UK sites (Stevenage, N, Filton, etc), but may involve occasional international travel to our other European sites; Toulouse, Paris, Munich, etc.

Your Skills and Experience

Extensive recruitment background, starting out as a Recruitment Consultant for a Recruitment Agency

Ideally you will have some experience of Talent Acquisition, In-house Recruitment or Account Management

Ideally you will have recruited for technical or engineering skills and know what it takes to attract and engage the best people

Strong sourcing and attraction skills, both proactive and reactive – proven experience in sourcing difficult-to-find profiles

A comprehensive understanding of the labour market, the associated challenges and how to overcome them

What Airbus Can Offer You

A competitive salary with annual profit share

An ever growing list of company benefits including enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

Very strong, very real career development options across our transnational, market leading company.

A hybrid working pattern of 2 to 3 days per week in the office and 2 to 3 days remotely (delete if not relevant / shift work)

Flexible hours – 37 per week with no core hours on Friday afternoons!

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with the Recruitment Business Partner who gets in touch if you are invited to interview. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence. #LI-AS1

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
AIRBUS Defence and Space Limited

Contract Type:
Permanent Contract / CDI / Unbefristet / Contrato indefinido

Experience Level:
Professional / Expérimenté(e) / Professionell / Profesional

Job Family:
HR Expertise

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.