Babington Hiring for Head of Recruitment – Work from home Job at Remote Full Time

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Head of Recruitment

Remote (work from home – with travel to offices as required)

Salary – £60,000 – 80,000k p.a. DOE

Are you an engaging, inspiring, and motivational leader with a passion for driving improvement across a developing recruitment function? Are you interested in helping the next generation of candidates find fulfilling and rewarding roles, bringing the benefit of commercial recruitment experience to the apprenticeship sector?

Do you have a strong recruitment background, with the capability and determination to organise and deliver volume recruitment activities using a range of tools and tactics??

We are seeking a Head of Recruitment to join our remote based team to lead Babington’s recruitment process – sourcing apprenticeship candidates that fit our customers’ needs and driving transformation and wholesale performance improvement across the function in line with wide business initiatives.

Candidates will have experience of implementing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), will have a good understanding of best practice approach, and will be able to demonstrate effective leadership of a similar function or team. Key objectives include increasing the volume of roles filled; improving ‘learner lifetime value’ by enabling ‘cross’ and ‘upsell’ into adjacent relevant products and managing and motivating a team. Experience leading in house recruitment and/or working within a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) model is desirable as is the appetite to really own and shape a function – from operating model to incentives.

You can read more about this fantastic role below and in the job description attached.

Summary of role

Responsible for leading candidate engagement, sourcing and placing apprenticeship candidates into vacancies created by our Business-to-Business sales team. Working alongside sales and marketing this is a key role to drive an overall improvement in Babington apprenticeship recruitment function.

Responsible for increasing the vacancy fill ratio; delivering greater visibility around performance data and insight to drive continuous improvement; driving the implementation of a new Applicant Tracking System; designing and implementing new ways of working that drive efficiencies in the function; Improving learner lifetime value by supporting ‘cross-sell’ and ‘upsell’ into relevant adjacent product categories.

Core Values and Summary of Principle Accountabilities

Passionate

• Leadership of the core recruitment function, contributing to strategy development, budget, and team structure, performance, and incentives.

• Contribute to overall Babington business activity including internal and customer events, exhibitions, roundtables, webinars etc.

Brave

• Drive improvement in the fill rate across all vacancies, working closely with sales to ensure a high quality of vacancy, job descriptions, and communication with end client.

• Identify areas for improvement in the sales process, across key metrics, including but limited to quality metrics (i.e., fill ratio)

Caring

• Represent and lead resourcing strategy across Babington – work alongside senior leadership team to establish company-wide approach to candidate recruitment (external) across 1) Apprenticeships, and subsequently 2) FutureNation (high potential digital fast track), 3) sector work academy programmes.

• Identify high-potential individuals and actively work to develop the next generation of recruitment leaders.

Curious

• Review current working practices and recommend and implement improvements to support achievement of targets.

• Drive a culture of commercial awareness and continual improvement.

Determined

• Accountable for the performance and development of the Candidate Resourcing Team, initially with remit across Apprenticeships, but with potential to expand across other service lines (including Sector Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs) and the FutureNation talent consultancy/ERM).

• Reduce time to fill and drive efficiencies through WoW and automation

Trusted

• Work closely with Marketing and Growth Director and Transformation to scope and implement an appropriate Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

• Encourage, coach, and mentor team members to achieve their full potential

Brief person specification

Qualifications

• Grade A-C GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent
• Degree in Business Related Subject

Skills and experience

• Experience leading a recruitment team or function with demonstrable success
• Experience operating in a fast-paced environment undergoing transformation
• Experience leading change
• Experience of multi-site people management and performance enhancement
• Experience of utilisation of Apprenticeships/Government funded training
• Experience of/understanding of learning sector
• Experience of successfully achieving deadlines and working without close supervision.
• Experience of creating highly effective internal and external stakeholder relationships
• Experience of leading projects including stakeholder management and the successful reporting measurement of programme KPIS

Babington Benefits

• Bonuses
• Babington Engage Reward Platform
• Bupa Healthcare – Cash plan
• 28 Days annual leave plus Bank holidays
• Employer Pension contribution
• Remote Working