ParentPay Hiring for Talent Acquisition Partner Job at Coventry, England Full Time

Responsibilities:

• To partner with line managers to carefully qualify role and person specifications ensuring it is clear why the role is attractive, what good looks like and how it will be spotted and tested during the interview process.
• To agree with line managers which roles are to be advertised directly with review points and which are to be given immediately to an external recruitment agency partner.
• To take on a portfolio of direct recruitment projects, to be primarily resourced directly by Internet advertising across a range of functions, departments and level. These are to be reviewed every two weeks with a view to engaging an external agency if the advertisement response is proving unsatisfactory.
• To process, view and qualify (via initially calls where practical and necessary) direct advertising response or where required, candidates submitted by an agency. Managing the process from there to successful conclusion.
• To work closely with the business to agree and communicate a consistent and attractive employee value proposition and why ParentPay is a great place to work. Work with marketing and other stakeholders to positively promote the ParentPay proposition via role and person specifications, online advertising, the company website and LinkedIn pages.
• To help design, implement and comply with consistent processes for all recruitment activity ensuring newly introduced recruitment systems are fully up to date.
• To assist with the central recruitment dashboard for reporting purposes, recording when the role was initiated, progress, any challenges and suggested new actions if needed.
• To co-ordinate and be kept informed of progress on agency outsourced recruitment, ensuring terms of business are agreed and copy kept in central log, ensuring the agency has access and appropriate information and opportunity to directly qualify the opportunities assigned.
• To help facilitate the offer process for both direct and indirect recruitment including relevant checks, raising contracts, confirmation of signature, communications during notice period and elements of onboarding, working with line managers accordingly. Putting in extra calls where required to minimise non-joiners. Where candidates do fail to join, look to document feedback with a view to improving ongoing processes.
• To get involved with other recruitment initiatives as requested perhaps including future talent initiatives, market mapping or other areas to be agreed.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Significant proven talent acquisition experience gained either in an In-house recruitment function or an agency environment
• Full understanding of a full recruitment work-flow
• Proven experience of proactive direct sourcing, utilizing creative ways of finding talent.
• Excellent written (including the writing of advertising copy), and verbal communication and influencing skills with a confident and mature approach to consulting with line managers internally. Able to clearly set and manage expectations.
• Previous experience carefully constructing employee value propositions and why a potential employer is attractive. Proven skills in taking this proposition and communicating it via role and person specifications, advertising, websites and online advertising.
• Highly experienced interviewer with proven experience of hiring roles of various roles and levels, for example: sales, marketing, customer support, technical support, software development, operations, administrative, finance, and legal. Understands different interview techniques.
• An extensive understanding of online recruitment channels combined with the confidence and judgement to know when to take on a project directly and when to call in an external specialist.
• Strong proven stakeholder management abilities combined with proven abilities to carefully qualify requirements and design and implement assessment processes to ensure valuable line management time on the interview process is minimised.
• Experience of negotiating employment offers, including dealing with counter-offers.
• A generalist, happy to get involved with a range of functions and levels irrespective of any previous specialism which may have been built up in an agency environment. A demonstrable ability to get involved in new areas and quickly gain a base line understanding and feedback accordingly.
• Experience of working with agencies and good understanding of how they work (could be gained from working within an agency).
• Working knowledge of recruitment legislation including IR35 and Agency Workers Regulations.

• Experience of working in a company experiencing exciting change and growth.
• Experience of Tech recruitment.
• Good social media knowledge.
• Recruitment systems and projects exp.