ECS Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist Job at Edinburgh, Scotland Full Time

ECS is the one of the UKs largest and fastest growing Digital Transformation Consulting firms. We enable digital transformation to empower both disruptors and the disrupted – working from the inside out. Our clients are some of the UK’s most recognisable brands and we help them become ‘digital-first’ organisations so they are free to thrive like never before.

Part of the Global Logic Group – we have a phenomenal track record of successfully delivering industry leading Cloud & Digital Transformation programmes. We have an international reach working with a wide variety of projects and customers. Our approach enables companies to change the way they change and be fit for purpose in the 21st century.

Building a business around our people is the key to our success so you’ll need to be up for the challenge of working in an ever-changing environment and excited by venturing to sometimes uncharted areas.

ECS Talent Acquisition Specialists build strong relationships with Practice Heads, Client Directors, Sales and Service Delivery functions within ECS and with Client Hiring Managers where requested, working to deliver outstanding resourcing services within agreed SLAs.

You’ll work to ensure that the Talent Acquisition team delivers a comprehensive and professional service which fully meets the requirements of the business and contributes to achieving team & company objectives.

About the role:

• Building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, regularly arranging both face to face and conference meetings to gain a greater understanding of their business area and requirements.
• Proactively marketing available resource to gain additional business.
• Carrying out Practice/ Client focused searches and screening for appropriate candidates against job specifications and/or client requirements utilising internal candidate databases, job boards, LinkedIn, networking and technical checks, personality profiles etc.
• Negotiating rates/salaries in conjunction Practice Heads and Directors.
• Facilitating the interview process.
• Successfully fulfilling qualified opportunities within SLA’s.
• Promoting the ECS brand at all times, managing the candidate experience through the screening and interview process to the offer stage.
• Ensuring all internal systems are maintained and up-to-date with relevant information.
• Maintaining CV databases, Candidate Management Systems and resourcing trackers.
• Demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the resourcing process and associated systems and procedures.
• Developing strong working relationships with stakeholders to deliver on commitments and expectations.
• Building strong relationships with ECS permanent staff and Associates with a view to generating referrals, actively promoting the ECS Referral Reward Incentive Scheme.
• Maintaining ongoing relationships with HR and other internal teams to ensure the onboarding process is streamlined
  
• Understanding and adhering to compliance/changes in legislation affecting areas of work, e.g. – AWR, PES, GDPR, sponsorship etc.
• Ensuring all recruitment processes promote diverse sourcing; selection processes are free of bias and that selection decisions are based upon objective
• assessment criteria.
• Undertaking any other duties or project based work on an ad-hoc basis.

About you (ideally):

• Proven expertise recruiting in the Digital Transformation space, particularly for Software Developers, DevOps, QA and Cloud Developers/ Engineers.
• Experience of delivering end-to-end recruitment strategies to meet client SLAs.
• An understanding of recruitment best practice tools and methodologies (e.g. job profiling, sourcing, selection and assessment).
• Experience of working to and achieving demanding targets, ratios and SLAs.
• Experience in the use of recruitment technology and recruitment databases.
• Experience of face-to-face interviewing.
• Proven experience and understanding of pre-employment vetting procedures including right to work in the UK.
• Up-to-date knowledge of market intelligence and industry trends (e.g. new technology, recruitment metrics, and legislative changes).
• IT literate, strong Office skills – Word, Excel.

Our inclusive, positive culture empowers our people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. At ECS, our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences – providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career. Whilst we offer the flexibility of hybrid working our offices feature pods for collaboration and breakout areas for when you need to be in the zone, not forgetting the great coffee and memorable social events.

We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation. We are proud signatories to the Tech Talent Charter which was created because solving the diversity problem in tech requires a collective effort across companies and sectors – https://www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/

ECS employees benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plans including private healthcare (clinical & mental), discounted gym memberships, in office yoga sessions & massages. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme, reward & recognition through bonus/company reward card, and more.