Recruitment Associate

Job Title: Recruitment Associate

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £27,566

What you’ll be doing:

• Communicate updates promptly to recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, and agencies
• Oversee billing and clocking reports, addressing discrepancies and queries with attention to detail
• Deliver high-quality customer service, responding to supplier, team, and stakeholder enquiries and escalating as needed
• Provide advice and support with minimal supervision, following procedures and exercising judgement when necessary
• Analyse data, identify trends, and present it to meet reporting requirements
• Manage personal performance standards, SLAs, and quality measures while effectively multi-tasking

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience in a recruitment support or coordination role, ideally within high-volume or contingent workforce environments
• IT Proficiency, especially with applicant tracking systems (ATS)
• Understanding of HR policies and processes, with the ability to provide ad-hoc recruitment advice when needed
• Experience working within agreed service level agreements (SLAs) and delivering on service expectations

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Contingent Labour Team:

As a Recruitment Associate, you will be a key member of the Contingent Labour Team within the Recruitment Operations function at BAE Systems. Reporting to the Contingent Labour Team Manager, you’ll collaborate with functional and operational teams to provide an efficient recruitment service in a dynamic, complex manufacturing environment. The role offers exposure to various business areas, with opportunities for career progression. You will manage day-to-day administrative tasks, ensuring queries are addressed within agreed SLAs, and work closely with Recruitment Operations Specialists to achieve recruitment objectives. Self-motivated, organised, and able to manage multiple tasks, you’ll thrive in an environment that requires both independence and teamwork.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 31st January 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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