Recruitment & HR Coordinator, 2 Years FTC - Taw Valley Creamery, Devon

Recruitment & HR Coordinator, 2 Years FTC - Taw Valley Creamery, Devon

Location: Devon, GB

This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days per week required on site as well as the flexibility to travel to external events as required.

Are you ready to use your ambitious and proactive approach, along with your knowledge of end to end recruitment processes to make an impact on the second largest investment project in Arla’s history? If the answer is yes, this is a great opportunity to lead comprehensive recruitment of our Baldur project, which is the addition of a new state of the art mozzarella cheese processing facility at our Taw Valley Creamery in Devon.

How will you make an impact

This role will be a combination of creating a strategy to drive volume recruitment within the early careers space, along with managing the entire end to end recruitment process for project Baldur. From advertising roles, sourcing candidates, facilitating competency and behavioural assessment interviews through to handling offers and onboarding.

In Arla, our people are our most important asset, and you have an all-important stake in ensuring that we attract and hire the best candidates out there for this exciting project. You are a strong partner to project Baldur and handle several recruitments simultaneously. This will include attracting candidates to fill vacancies at all levels of the organisational chart, including early careers opportunities.

• Local engagement is key to a successful future pipeline of candidates, so you will be expected to establish strong connections with local schools and colleges, as well as leading careers fairs and industry specific events to attract local talent. You will take the lead on these events, creating branded materials with support from the marketing and communications teams that reflect our values and employer value proposition.
• You will have overall responsibility of designing and facilitating the full recruitment process, including assessment centres and competency style interviews. You will be delivering behavioural assessment feedback to all interviewed candidates using Predictive Index or Hogan depending on the level of the position.
• As part of onboarding of successful candidates you will create onboarding packs to ensure a smooth transition into Arla.
• You will be collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders in this role, internally and externally of Arla. Fostering true partnering expertise to your site stakeholders, providing technical recruitment advice and a consultative approach.
• You will create content across various channels including LinkedIn, external job boards and social media to enhance brand visibility and awareness.

What will make you successful

Known for your great communication skills and ability to connect at all levels of an organisation, you are the embodiment of value-based professionalism. You are able to handle multiple agendas and prioritise tasks – always with the end-result in mind. With your employer branding expertise, curiosity, data analytical skills, and global mindset, you are able to navigate and manage stakeholders and deliveries with professionalism and pragmatism.

You know how to challenge others in their decision-making, and you are motivated by a desire to service those around you. You must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment where agility and self-motivation are key.

• Sourcing experience and LinkedIn proficiency
• Local knowledge or partnerships within early careers sector
• Knowledge of psychometric testing is required, and hands-on experience is a plus
• Ability to travel when required to events such as careers fairs, college talks and networking events.
• Able to create and drive recruitment strategies

What do we offer?

We offer a competitive basic salary as well as benefits including pension, life assurance, extra holiday buy through salary sacrifice and access to My Benefits portal. Most importantly you will also get discounted products at our staff shop and a free cheese hamper at Christmas!

Would you like to join us

If you want to seize this exciting opportunity, please submit an application by close of play on the 14th of April 2025. For more information please reach out to Melanie Williams, Head of UK TA at melwi@arlafoods.com

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