Retail Talent Acquisition Partner

Permanent

From £35,000 + Pension + private medical + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working 

Southampton, Store Support Office

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Retail Talent Acquisition Partner and you’ll be a big part of this. 

To source, attract and screen high quality candidates for vacancies up to and including “Head of”/Regional Manager level within a specific business area, focusing on improving the quality of hire and candidate experience. To create and engage talent pools for future resource requirements.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

  • Build specialist knowledge about the business area(s), roles recruiting for and the external market to help line managers shape vacancies.
  • Identify the best sourcing and attraction channels for current and future vacancies within a specific business area.
  • Create talent pools for volume requirements and difficult to fill requirements in a specific business area(s)
  • Use insight and customer feedback to increase quality of hire.
  • Utilise a variety of sourcing channels to find high quality candidates.
  • Manage all vacancies and candidates within agreed SLAs to reduce cost and time to offer.
  • Work with attraction partner to create tactical attraction plans.
  • Manage and support candidates through the recruitment process delivering a candidate experience that leaves people as B&Q advocates, whether or not they join the business.
  • Be an ambassador of the recruitment brand internally, coaching hiring managers to help attract candidates and use approved selection tools in the right way.
  • Schedule, conduct and document video or telephone interviews.
  • Arrange selection events with hiring managers and candidates.
  • Provide candidates with feedback and/or offer.
  • Ensure audit compliance of recruitment process in line with the recruitment policy.
  • Support Talent Acquisition team colleagues as required through periods of high and low demand.
  • Day to day line management of the Talent Acquisition Specialists, including but not limited to; sickness/absence, holiday approval and tracking, managing performance improvement, team effectiveness and conduct issues.
  • Works with internal stakeholders (Hiring Managers and business leaders) to ensure recruitment is managed effectively and within SLAs.
  • Partners with third party agencies to compliment the sourcing and recruitment for vacancies as required.
  • Pre-selection decisions on candidates in the recruitment process
  • Full 360 cycle recruitment experience; delivering effective recruitment campaigns and solutions to meet business needs within agreed SLA’s and timescales.
  • Ability to confidently and constructively challenge and influence stakeholders around selection decisions and recruitment best practice.
  • Evidence of developing strong stakeholder relationships with a consultative and collaborative approach.
  • Capable of working within a highly pressurised and fast paced environment.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills preferably with experience communicating effectively through remote communications channels (i.e. telephone, email etc)
  • Experience of direct recruitment methods, with strong social media sourcing expertise.
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritise effectively.
  • Attention to detail- a completer finisher who does what they say they will do.
  • Retail knowledge (desirable)

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more! 

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.