JD Sports Fashion PLC Hiring for Early Careers & Apprenticeships Talent Acquisition Executive Job at Bury, North West England, England Full Time

Overview

JD Fashion Plc is a leading international multi-channel retailer of branded sports, fashion, and outdoor brands. Established in 1981 with a single store in the North-West of England, today JD is an industry leading retail business with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across a number of retail fascias in 32 markets around the world. JD is at the pinnacle of the global sports fashion industry, providing customers with a product range that remains both authentic and uniquely appealing across a highly differentiated omni-channel experience.

Our business model is split into Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019. In FY21, JD Sports Fashion Plc generated revenues of £6,167.3m, underlying PBT of £324.0m and net cash of £795.4m and a market capitalisation of £7.275bn.

JD won the International Excellence award at the Drapers Awards 2021 and was named best performing share of the 2010s with revenues increasing from £770m in 2010 to £6.1bn in 2021.

Working as a key part of the people talent team, with a specific focus on Talent Acquisition across Early Careers and Apprenticeship roles. The successful candidate will work closely with our Early Careers & Apprenticeships team to ensure we are able to attract and recruit the best talent in market.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Full recruitment life-cycle management; from full breif to actively headhunting and successful offer management.
• Build an external bank of talent within your related disciplines, through proactive recruitment and networking events, and innovative talent pipeling strategies.
• Proactively build the JD employer brand externally within your network, utalising social media, events and careers fairs.
• Work closely with Learning providers to support recruitment.
• Ability to understand the specific skills, matching these with the requirements of the role.
• Relaying initial candidate insights to the hiring manager at critical points such as interview and offer management stages.
• From first candidate touch point be a professional advocate of the JD group.
• Maintain a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process, ensuring candidates are well informed and looked after at each stage of the recruitment journey.
• Ensure business areas follow a structured interview process, identifying high performing candidates within the market that match our business requirements and values.
• Provide in depth acquisition data to the Talent Acquisition senior leadership team and line managers for review.
• Collate, upload and manage live vacancies onto ATS, Linkedin and other resourcing outlets.
• Manage the applicant tracking system to filter and update online applications for vacancies.
• Consistently strive to reduce agency fees within business areas, closely managing the spend of your discipilines.
• Manage the external PSL agency relationships.
• Assist with careers fairs off site and virtually
• Proactively build and develop strong working relationships with schools, colleges, universities to promote career opportunities available with the JD Group
• Work alongside the Early careers & Apprenticeships team to support careers events and open days & act as an ambasador for the business.
• Liaise with People Operations regarding new starter process and onboarding.
• Ensure all job descriptions are up to date and utilised throughout recruitment process.

Skills Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of recruiting roles within Retail/ Early careers- is preferred
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in Stakeholder manager / influence throughout hiring cycles advantageuos
• An excellent external network & knowledge of good acquisition practises in other leading organisations which is kept up to date
• Experience of presenting acquisition data such as cost to fill, time to hire.
• HR & ATS systems knowledge
• Experience of using LinkedIn & Linked-in Recruiter is preferred