Talent Acquisition Manager

Salary: £42,000 – £48,000 per year

A successful executive recruitment business operating across a range of established and emerging sectors, Verrus have a proven track record for proactively placing game-changing professionals in mid-level and senior management positions for an increasingly global client base. Having set ourselves the ambitious target of doubling our headcount by mid-2023, we are now looking to appoint a driven, creative and dynamic Talent Acquisition Manager to lead this drive, in view of achieving this goal.

• Highly Attractive Salary & Benefits + Significant Scope for Rapid Career Advancement

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting and brand-new position within Verrus which will see the successful candidate playing a unique and pivotal role in the business. This will primarily involve:

• Using employment websites, LinkedIn and related social media channels to identify and attract potential new employees for consultant, management and support staff positions
• Attending careers fairs and graduate events to convey Verrus’ employer brand and to develop a continuous flow of future hires
• Assessing suitable candidates via telephone, video calls and face to face meetings to evaluate suitability (1st stage interviews)
• Ensuring all candidate attraction media and marketing collateral is kept relevant, accurate, consistent and engaging, thereby enabling Verrus to continuously cultivate a relevant candidate pool
• Arranging referrals (2nd stage interviews) for Divisional Managing Directors, sharing accountability to enable the achievement of divisional headcount targets
• Understanding the individual characteristics and nuances of each division (staff, leadership, culture, specialist markets) and collaborating with each Divisional Managing Director to ensure best-fit selection
• Arranging start dates, managing job offers, carrying out necessary reference checks etc
• Running week-one onboarding programs to ensure each new hire meets required operational and commercial competencies prior to divisional induction

The Candidate:

Although clearly beneficial, we are not necessarily expecting applicants to have specific prior in-house or client-facing recruitment experience, however the following pre-requisites are required:

• A minimum A-Level standard of educational attainment (bachelor’s degree preferred), ideally in a business, HR, marketing or related field of study.
• Experience of working in a small to medium sized enterprise enabling an understanding of a continuously evolving and agile business model
• A strong business acumen and commercial aptitude are essential to performing this role successfully
• Confident, engaging, charismatic and articulate interpersonal and communication skills to be able to converse effectively with all employees and hires
• First class organisational and prioritising abilities, with fastidious attention to detail
• Personal synergy with the company’s core values: Honesty, integrity, hard work, transparency, tenacity, added value and quality
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office 365, LinkedIn and social media

This is an exceptional career proposition that promises real potential for rapid career progression and personal development. Successful attainment of our current expansion targets will see the successful candidate’s role expand in its reach and scope of responsibilities, taking on greater involvement in strategy, HR, culture & wellbeing, leadership and training.