Frontline Recruitment Team Lead

Job Introduction

Do you like a challenge? Are you an experienced recruiter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment?

We’re looking for a Recruitment Team Lead to join our newly formed Frontline Recruitment Team! This is an exciting opportunity to join a team who will make a positive impact by delivering end-to-end resourcing support, whilst putting hiring manager and candidate experience at the forefront. You will be responsible for a team of Resourcing Coordinators therefore experience of managing a team in a busy environment is essential. You will provide advice and guidance to managers on the most appropriate route to market, ensuring best practice, social value and our D&I strategy is at the heart of everything we do.

This role will be home based with regular virtual contact with your team. Once it is safe to do so, you will occasionally be required to travel to our Salford office for team meetings.

Role Responsibility

• Provide specialist advice and guidance to managers on the most appropriate selection and assessment methods
• Deliver against KPIs of quality, time, cost, sourcing mix and candidate/hiring manager experience
• Manage a team ensuring an excellent level of candidate, recruiter and hiring manager experiences is delivered across the function
• Support segment campaigns and recruitment drives
• Deliver brand and attraction interventions
• Support the coordinator team throughout the end-to-end resourcing process, enabling them to offer tailored advice for their campaigns
• Drive the team to build and utilize candidate pools and pipelines for quick response to demand
• Support continuous improvement strategies related to our recruitment process
• Engage and build relationships with HR Business Partners to run through hiring forecasts and support planning and prioritisation of resourcing needs on a short, medium and long-term basis

The Ideal Candidate

• Demonstratable recruitment experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience leading a team to deliver excellence
• Highly organised and disciplined in managing workload and the end-to-end process
• Sound knowledge and experience with different selection and assessment techniques
• Strong influencing and relationship building skills
• Commercial awareness
• Experience utilising social recruiting tools
• Confidence and interpersonal skills to be able to approach passive candidates and drive the building of talent pools

Package Description

£27,000 - £28,000 per annum

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process