Smith & Nephew Hiring for Talent Acquisition Recruitment Specialist Job at Watford, East of England, England Full Time

Role Title

Talent Acquisition Recruitment Specialist

Location

Watford, UK

Rewards

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits on offer.

Summary

Smith & Nephew is a diversified advanced medical technology business that supports healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries to improve the quality of life for their patients.

This Talent Acquisition Recruitment Specialist is responsible for delivering all facets of recruiting success throughout the organisation within UKI & Nordics, with scope to work across other regions when required.

Partnering with hiring managers, the sourcing hub, and the local HRC team, the Talent Acquisition Specialist will be responsible for the management of the end-to-end recruitment process and fulfilment of a portfolio of vacancies, employing traditional sourcing strategies and resources as well as developing new, innovative recruiting ideas.

The Talent Acquisition Specialist role will play a critical role in ensuring we are increasing the quality of hire by providing the hiring managers with a selection of the best possible talent.

Opportunities to work on projects will present themselves regularly and allow for development in areas outside the core of the role.

Based at Global Head Office in Watford, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of requisitions and ensuring successful fulfilment. This role will primarily business partner with our Commercial division across the UK, Ireland and Nordics cluster, but will also be responsible for various head office functions too.

Essential Job Functions

• Use direct sourcing activities and TA best practices, ensuring cost effective TA solutions are implemented to support the business needs and ensure that requisitions are filled as efficiently as possible
• Working with local HR, Talent Acquisition and Regional TA Director, ensure the day to day delivery of a smooth recruitment process carefully managing hiring managers and candidates expectations
• Working closely with Hiring Managers to understand their needs and ensure a strong pipeline of candidates for current and future needs

• Partner with HR colleagues and hiring managers to develop creative recruitment strategies for open positions and in anticipation of future workforce planning needs.
• Identify and utilize creative sourcing methods to drive candidate flow (social media, job boards, professional associations, networking, universities, etc.).
• Support the development of TA programs and identify recommendations to continuously improve the recruitment processes and tools to ensure optimal performance.

• Source, screen, and manage the end-to-end recruitment process to integrate talent into the organisation, including managing sourcing of candidates and evaluation of candidate experience, skills, goals and competencies to determine best fit for role and organisation.
• Support multi-site recruitment environment by working with hiring managers and candidates remotely (email, phone, Skype) as well as in-person.
• Proactively and creatively source and recruit passive candidates to target strong industry talent.
• Develop and refine recruitment metrics and monthly dashboard for recruitment in respective market(s).
• Develop and embed employer branding in supported country / countries.
• Compliance in use of applicant tracking systems.
• Provide clear and concise reporting to business leaders and HR colleagues for tracking progress in sourcing candidates for current as well as anticipated open roles.

Requirements

• Candidates should have prior experience working in recruitment
• Experience with influencing and working with multiple internal stakeholders
• Experience of working with Applicant Tracking Systems
• Experience of using Workday would be preferable.
• Experience of working as a remote member of a geographically diverse global team
• Ideally candidates will have excellent organisation and communication skills
• Candidates should be proficient with MS office programs

About Us

We have over 16,000 employees around the world and annual sales in 2020 were more than $4.5 billion. We are a constituent of the UK’s FTSE100 and our shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange and through American Depository Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN) .

From our purpose, ‘Life Unlimited’, to the individuals and teams who make it happen; people are at the centre of our business. As we leap into the future, we are changing the way that we recruit. We are looking for recruiters and sourcing specialists to join our growing team to play a key role in setting the foundations of our new recruitment model. As we embark on this new model, the recruitment function will be responsible for hiring across the business.

Applications

If you share our passion for pioneering innovation and can demonstrate how you meet the criteria outlined, we would love to hear from you. When applying please provide details of current remuneration package along with salary expectations.

We continue to actively build an environment where every individual can fulfil their potential and be proud ambassadors for Smith + Nephew, our customers and their patients. We value the diversity of our people and welcome applications from everyone.