Digital Wholesale Solutions Hiring for Talent Acquisition Manager at Remote Full Time

We’re a continually growing, innovative and multi-award-winning wholesaler and distributor of communications, cloud, billing and hardware products and services.

We work in a fast-paced and exciting industry, where we have forged strategic partnerships and relationships with the UK’s top telcos, networks, and vendors, including BT, TTB, Vodafone, Virgin Media O2, EE, CityFibre, Sophos, Microsoft and Samsung.

As a Channel-only business, we never sell directly to the end-user. Instead, we serve a market of independent resellers, which we proudly refer to as our partners.

We offer our partners a market-leading and comprehensive product portfolio, intuitive portals and platforms and a passionate team of industry experts.

We make a complex industry as simple as possible for our partners, enabling them with a commercial platform to sell the latest technologies and solutions to the resilient UK SMB market.

We have huge aspirations to challenge our industry and what we do, and we continuously dream big for the future. As a team of over 750 people, we’re all immensely proud to work for a rapidly expanding company with an incredible culture that puts our team members and partners at the heart of everything we do.

Job Description

Talent Acquisition Manager

Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Homebased with frequent travel

£50,000 per annum + car allowance

Great just isn’t good enough for our People team (you might know them as Human Resources), we bring the best ‘people’ together and provide resources and access to things to make them thrive.

Our philosophy is simple; we want DWS to be a great place to work, create a culture where people can bring their whole self to work, and enable people to be the best that they can be. The best part about this is that you are part of the team bringing this to life across the whole company!

We can’t achieve our aspirations without a dedicated People team who love what they do, who are passionate about all things ‘people’ and who continuously strive to make this a great place to work. Everything we do in the People team is reflected in our NPS team member surveys.

What you’ll be doing

Operational

You will play an integral role on the People Team, creating a best-in-class recruitment and selection offering for both your internal and external hires. You will incorporate wider group processes to build an internal talent pool that ensures a strong pipeline of future talent and a robust approach to succession planning.

Overseeing the candidate experience end to end to make us a destination employer of choice

Ensure we comply with current regulations, accepted professional standards, policies and procedures and legislation (including legislation on data protection, Disability Confident accreditation and the Equality Act.

Manage the online recruitment tool, ensuring continuous and consistent recruitment.

Working with the wider People team develop brand presence to drive direct talent traffic and ultimately reduce agency spend.

Ongoing development and negotiation of preferred supplier relationship.

Develop and embed the Early Careers strategy

Establish lasting partnerships with education establishments, promoting the Business as an Employer of Choice to attract high calibre, next generation candidates.

Develop and embed inclusive and scientific recruitment methods and practices.

Building sound relationships with managers and Directors to understand their requirements both short & longer term.

Providing coaching and support to managers on interview techniques and hiring best practices.

Conducting proactive, headhunt searches.

Provide market insight, competitor analysis and trends

Managing and analysing exit interviews, providing analysis and feedback to the People Mgt team.

Deliver recruitment training across to ensure that managers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources needed to recruit the best talent for their teams

Qualifications

What we are looking for:
Strong experience of developing resourcing and talent strategies, including Early Careers

Demonstrable experience owning and delivering TA projects and be comfortable working autonomously

Experience in leading and managing a team

The ability to confidently and credibly challenge and influence key stakeholders

Experience of criteria-based assessment / assessment / psychometrics would be desirable

Additional Information

Giacom, DWS and Union Street are part of the same group of companies, bringing together three leading channel solutions in telecoms, cloud software services and cloud billing. Our aspiration is to be the number one supplier in the channel.

Your job role may be focused at one of the brands, but you will interact and impact across the wider group of companies.

What’s in it for you? Why should you come and work for us?

Our benefits consist of; no dress code (you, do you), days off for special life events, work from anywhere concept with occasional travel for training or meetings. Work with and learn from experts in the telecoms industry, a wellbeing and engagement team, ‘if you want a career with us then grab it’ concept, recognition and team/industry events as well as a whole host of other benefits which can be found on our website www.digitalwholesalesolutions.com on our Careers page.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we positively encourage applications from all eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy or maternity.

We aim to ensure that all applicants are provided with the same opportunities during the recruitment process, and, to that end, we strive to comply with the duties placed upon us to make reasonable adjustments as prescribed by the Equality Act 2010. Should you have a disability or long-term health condition and require a particular adjustment to be made to allow you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please ensure you let me know.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, provide two references and proof of right to work in the UK, unrestricted.

Here are some of the benefits that we offer…

25 days holidays, plus bank holidays, and the option to purchase more!

Pension

Employees Assistance Programme

Professional development to help you achieve your personal goals

Eye care vouchers available and discounted Medicash membership

Access to discounts and savings at more than 1,200 retailers

An additional day off on your birthday

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