National Grid Hiring for New Talent and Resourcing Specialist Job at Warwick, West Midlands, England Full Time

We are hiring a New Talent and Resourcing Specialist in our Gas Transmission department.

Key accountabilities

To partner with your allocated business area, delivering effective recruitment advice and strategies to deliver the business area’s current and future people requirements including scheme trainee recruitment. Managing and developing stakeholder relationships. Contributing to creating a positive image for National Grid as an employer. Managing end to end recruitment of roles.

• Business partnering: Partnering effectively with your business area, building relationships, ensuring the resourcing team are meeting and exceeding customer needs and enhancing the internal reputation of the resourcing team • Mapping external markets and organisations: Map external markets, organisations and trends to deliver strong talent pipelines and recruitment insights to the resourcing team and to your business area• Attraction: Set creative, efficient and cost effective souring strategies using tools such as social media and headhunting as required to drive direct sourcing and limit recruitment agency spend• Talent pipeline: Work with the business, HR colleagues and strategic workforce planning to develop talent pipelines for scarce/hard to fill positions.• Metrics and KPIs: Proactively working to recruitment metrics, monitoring and driving time to offer, time to hire and hiring manager and candidate experience. Being accountable for all vacancies within your business area whether or not directly managed by you. • Candidate management: Manage candidates through the end to end recruitment process ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout• Inclusion and diversity: Implementing best practise to ensure our processes are inclusive and encouraging best practise with hiring managers• Scheme trainee recruitment: proactively managing the start to end scheme trainee recruitment process on an annual basis covering apprenticeships through to graduate programme

About you

Essential• Excellent knowledge of recruitment practices gained from a recruitment agency at a senior level; or in-house recruitment background.• Expertise in a range of sourcing channels.• Expertise in vendor management.• Excellent stakeholder management skills• Experience of scheme attraction and recruitment• Ability to plan, prioritise and project manage• Ability to build relationships at senior level.• Experience of direct sourcingDesirable• Strong digital knowledge.• Adept at using social media for recruitment and employer branding purposes• Experience of graduate and apprentice recruitment

About us

Gas Transmission (GT) owns, manages, and operates the National Transmission System (NTS) in Great Britain, making gas available when and where it’s needed.

We ensure that our network is safe, reliable and available, and that it delivers value for our customers and stakeholders, while minimising impact on the environment.

Metering is the largest asset manager of industrial, commercial and residential gas meters in GB – providing metering and meter reading services on behalf of GT.

What you’ll get

We deliver high quality, value for money services – managing rental contracts and relationships with customers and gas suppliers and undertaking a range of activities to maintain our metering portfolio.

A competitive salary between £38,9000-50,000 – dependent on capability As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance (subject to bonus scheme rules in place at the time) and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

More information

The closing date for this vacancy is 9th March 2022. However, we encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

We work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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