National Express Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist Job at Birmingham, England Full Time

Join us on the Journey…

As part of the Resourcing team development for National Express, an opportunity now exists for an Talent Acquisition Specialist to join the Resourcing function.

Working as part of an agile, output driven team, the ideal candidate would be Responsible for building and driving a sustainable talent pipeline and talent pool. Proactively source and engage candidates that represent our profile and values. Provide efficient and timely support to the Hiring Managers.

Key Accountabilities

• Through consistent personal networking and research, deliver insight and data to the recruitment team and business leaders regarding job markets, employment trends, national skills shortages, challenges ahead, innovation and incentives to ensure we have full visibility of the future job markets, enabling us to change with the times to stay ahead.
• Deliver targeted head hunting activity for key and critical positions throughout the business converting contacts and networks into new employees.
• Build a sustainable talent pool so that reliance on agencies are minimised
• Ensure talent pool data is analysed, tracked and kept up to date
• Arrange meet-ups and attend and the right recruitment events for us to pitch at to enhance our employer brand and attract passive and active talent. Organise and deliver events and network hard within the wider commercial markets ensuring we are the employer of choice.
• Proactively manage the talent pool to ensure candidates are kept warm via business updates and events.
• Use data to increase employer brand awareness helping to shape your attraction strategy and talent pipelines
• Produce data and reports to show the strength of pipelines, conversion rates and progress against open roles
• Deliver and support HR related projects as required
• Ensure policies and related processes are kept up to date and are in line with legislative changes. Train and advise the HR team and managers in their application as appropriate.
• Using multiple sourcing channels to resource for high quality candidates through LinkedIn, Job Boards and with specialised agencies to assist you in sourcing the best talent available.

Experience and knowledge required

• Ability to communicate confidently at all levels, with strong influencing skills and a down-to-earth style which engages others
• Articulate, with good written skills and able to convey information in lay terms
• Accuracy and attention to detail, with strong analytical and research skills
• Able to work flexibly and travel to all sites across the UK as required
• Proven success in approaching passive candidates and getting them through the recruitment process to offer stage
• Experience in building and implementing multi-channel attraction strategies with an experimental approach to candidate attraction using social and digital media and growth hacking strategies
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and an innate ability to create collaborative partnerships to become a trusted partner for hiring manager
• Able to operate with confidential and sensitive information

Things to note…

At National Express, we are really proud of our health and safety record and as a result, we operate a Drugs and Alcohol Policy which is applicable to all employees.

As part of your initial assessment, we will complete Drug and Alcohol testing and you may be subject to random tests during your employment.