Senior Recruitment Advisor (Supervising Associate), Experienced Hire - SaT - 12 month FTC

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Senior Recruitment Advisor - Talent Acquisition & Attraction - SaT

The Opportunity:

As a Senior Recruitment Advisor, you will be a connected, key business partner to your stakeholders, providing insight, credibility and best practice to define and deliver the end-to-end recruitment processes across your portfolio. Working as a valued member of the UK&I Experience Hired recruitment team, you'll have the opportunity to lead projects, manage niche recruitment, and deliver innovative process improvements.

Your Key Responsibilities:

You'll work closely with your internal stakeholders to formulate and deliver an effective recruitment strategy across a matrix competency structure. Partners, Directors and Senior Managers will look to you for your business acumen, market knowledge and the ability to deliver exceptional talent. You will act as a role model, leading others and overseeing team priorities in relation to hiring activity, DE&I, reporting & compliance.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Leads on recruitment plans, with a deep understanding of recruitment methods and concepts
• Drives direct sourcing with the aim of reducing the reliance of agency usage to ensure that the recruitment targets are met
• Delivers solutions via a thorough understanding of trends and market knowledge of sector using knowledge to inform actions and sourcing plans across the team
• Experience & understanding of assessment methods e.g. competency-based interviewing, psychometric testing, technical testing, and assessment centres
• Confidence in advocating for DE&I and holding stakeholders to account to ensure our inclusive hiring practices are upheld. In addition, be able to advise stakeholders on diversity sourcing and attraction to support diverse pipelines.
• Understanding of the internal / external market and trends, ensuring that this knowledge is shared with the business and team as appropriate
• Agile and responsive to business needs, demonstrating speed of response through own actions and proactively proposing ideas and solutions
• Excellent stakeholder management skills. Solution focused and able to adapt style to different stakeholder groups
• Establishes strong relationships with different stakeholder groups such as the Talent, Resourcing, Operations, HR and the business to remain abreast of key issues and recruitment plans
• Clear commitment to quality and compliance, driving team performance through measures and targets that are set for recruitment
• Motivates and manages others through actions, training and on the job coaching
• Counsels and supports wider team members with career development and progression

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment while managing more specialist briefs through appropriate selection methods
• The credibility to help influence and implement a recruitment strategy, identifying the business impact of recruitment on measures including cost per hire, DE&I mix and source mix
• Solid experience of coordinating direct recruitment from a variety of sources for example, headhunting, job boards, recruitment portals & referral campaigns
• Experience of full account management of key recruitment areas
• Regular experience of using data and insights and the production of management information
• Prioritisation and project management skills - able to plan and manage time effectively and flexing to deal with key priorities

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Well-developed networks and experience of market insights
• Relationship building skills - with the ability to challenge senior management where necessary, always acting with integrity and enthusiasm
• A strategic outlook, resilience and leadership skills

What working at EY Offers:

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we're using the finance products, expertise and systems we've developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we'll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

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