Recruitment Manager (in-House)

The Opportunity
This is an exciting opening for an experienced senior recruitment professional to work in-house for a leading PLC business. You will take full ownership of national recruitment across a range of commercial, technical and industrial requirements, working closely with all hiring managers at UK based sites to tailor an effective approach using the full range of traditional and emerging practices to help identify and secure the best available talent.

The Role
Working for this leading national group packaging business and reporting to the Group HR Director, you shall enjoy recruiting for a range of key roles within the business to ensure a pipeline of high performing talent, meeting external requirements and overseeing the end to end recruitment process all levels. This will include the need to create ‘talent pools’ for key roles via the use of innovative and creative recruitment methods to source and identify the best candidates, as well as the traditional methods of advertising, networking and headhunting. You will enjoy adopting a partnership approach with hiring managers and advise key stakeholders on ‘best practice’ whilst continually monitoring candidate engagement and the selection processes used to seek and implement improvements. You will track the overall recruitment budget spend and be responsible for instigating/organising key recruitment events during the year. Working from either the Coventry or Milton Keynes site, the role shall also require a reasonable amount of national travel to various sites during the year.

Do you have the correct profile?
We are welcoming applications from experienced senior recruitment professionals who are happy to be ‘anchored’ to the Coventry or Milton Keynes site as place of work whilst undertaking a reasonable amount of national travel within the role. Prior In-house Recruitment experience is ideally preferable ideally within a distribution based business.
You must have some experience of strategic recruitment with a strong track-record of hands-on fulfilment in relation to more senior level appointments. Experience of sourcing candidates using various techniques, including job boards, agencies, networking and making direct approaches is essential, as are strong influencing skills to promote a credible recruitment function when dealing with Heads of Department. Above all else, the ability to ultimately deliver within agreed timescales is paramount.
You will be a strong advocate of ‘best practice’, have excellent organisation skills, be self-confident, an all-round strong communicator and possess the ability to work well under pressure whilst prioritising workloads effectively.

The Rewards
Basic annual starting salary is very much negotiable up to the top level of £50,400per annum (based on experience) there is also an additional bonus achievable against key objectives set at the outset which is not an insignificant sum if hit successfully. The role comes with a fully expensed company car and excellent PLC benefits including the likes of: Company Pension (contributory), 33 days (including bank holidays, service longevity and holiday purchasing scheme) private health, national affiliate discount scheme, childcare vouchers and dedicated/personalised career/training plan.

How to apply/Next Steps
This is truly an urgent appointment whereby the business is willing to hold interviews swiftly in the coming fortnight, so if you feel this represents the fresh challenge you are seeking, please apply directly online to this advert enclosing an up to date CV and indication of your salary expectations. Suitable direct applicants can expect to receive an initial phone from an EdgeSR consultant, normally within 1-2 working days. Subject to our qualification process, shortlisted applicants will then be submitted to our client for review.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within three working days maximum. If you do not hear back from us within this period, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful (due to extremely large volumes of online applicant traffic in the current climate we are unfortunately unable to respond to all applications).