Proqis Hiring for TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER at London Full Time

As well as our core conference business and flagship event BTOES.com and industry awards BTOESAwards.com, we also have BTOES Insights, the largest online content platform for Business Transformation, Operational Excellence, Digital Transformation & Innovation Excellence professionals, with over 985,000 engaged subscribers.

We are currently a 100% home working company with staff members spread across the world.

About the role:
To apply for this role, you MUST have strong relationships and deep industry knowledge of the B2B commercial conference industry, having worked in the industry for over 4 years.

What we’re searching for is a passionate, smart, focused and gregarious, proactive hunter of talent who can work in a fast-moving, fluid environment and engage even the most passive talent. Sound like you? …Read on…

You will play a key role in our company’s growth plans. We’re a people business. From talent acquisition and management to compensation, benefits, analytics and operations, finding and keeping the right people is the core of our strategy for success. If you love working with people and making the connection between great talent and company success, we want to connect with you.

Utilising creative problem solving to devise and execute on effective recruitment strategies. You are an expert in attracting and assessing top talent for our organisation.

You will be responsible for the full-cycle recruitment and onboarding.

Responsibilities include:
Source, engage and attract top talent for Proqis, to drive growth across the conferences business.

Hiring across all functions in the B2B conferences business; in particular Delegate Sales, Sponsorship Sales, Event Management, Operations, Conference Production, Event, Conference Marketing and more

Conduct market intelligence including competitors, supply, demand and compensation requirements of local talent.

Creation of candidate profiles & job descriptions and compelling job postings

Present recruiting plans with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process

Develops a creative approach to sourcing executing various sourcing strategies and maintaining a solid pipeline of talent.

Use search tools such as databases and social media to create a strong candidate pool

Networking with the best talent to find candidates for our most urgent hires

Continually seek new sourcing options and develop creative approaches to sourcing and delivering candidates. Develop long-term recruiting strategies and nurture trusting relationships with potential hires.

Ultimately, you will create strong talent pipelines for our company’s current and future hiring needs.

Assess candidates to ensure qualification match, cultural fit and compatibility.

Manage the end to end recruitment cycle, conducting in-depth talent interviews, solving recruitment challenges and strategizing and executing on innovative approaches to cultivating talent.

Determine selection criteria, candidate assessment and selection techniques including interview questions and selection procedures, including screening, assessments and in-person interviews.

Input into our strategic objectives to ensure the recruitment strategy delivers full staff utilisation.

Works with the business to determine appropriate salary ranges and negotiate compensation with candidates

Presents shortlisted candidates scores, and provides detailed profile summaries.

Schedule department interviews and ensures selection process provides an exceptional candidate experience.

Understands the financial impact of open roles and responds to all inquiries with a high sense of urgency.

Tracks and identify prospective candidates using an applicant tracking system. Records all activities to ensure effective reporting and metrics tracking.

Provide, offer guidance and facilitate the negotiation process through to its completion.

Keep the CEO informed on key recruitment drives. Reporting directly to the CEO

Act as an ambassador of Proqis, sharing our value proposition to increase and strengthen our brand in the market.

Requirements:
Previous end-to-end recruitment experience, agency experience essential

Recruited for B2B conference industry roles before

You love autonomy are a self-starter, hugely proactive and have buckets of common sense

Like to change things up if you spot something isn’t working? Fix it

You care about the experience of our candidates and look to constantly improve the candidate journey

You have extensive experience in direct sourcing methods across a variety of channels including job boards, social media and headhunting. LinkedIn guru an advantage

Interviewing expert!

Strong and clear communicator with an ability to influence and engage internal stakeholders and candidates at a variety of levels and job functions

Super organised, methodical and process-driven, with the ability to manage multiple assignments at once

Persistent, positive and proactive attitude comes naturally

Love working in a fast paced and changing environment

Excellent IT Skills including full knowledge of social media as a recruitment tool

Relevant recruitment employment law knowledge ideal

…..and most importantly the desire to succeed

Remuneration:
Substantial uplift on your current salary with a lucrative bonus scheme.

Hours:
Because you will be working from home. you can be based anywhere in the world, as long as you can adapt your hours to North American working hours during research and speaker acquisition calling times.

To Apply:
Email your CV and a covering letter with your salary expectations to [email protected].