Recruitment Manager

Why join us

As a leader within Sainsbury’s, you will play an important role in how we show up for and serve our customers every day, as well as delivery of our corporate outcomes and strategy. We are on an exciting journey to take Sainsbury’s to the ‘Next Level’ and this is an opportunity to be part of an ambitious team and organisation.

As a recruitment leader, you will shape, drive and deliver our recruitment operation for our Retail Management roles across our Sainsbury’s and Argos stores, through a strong connection to our business and customers, being highly tuned into the external environment, growing a developing a high performing team, and playing a crucial role in positioning Sainsbury's as the first choice for leaders who want to work in good food.

What you'll do

As a Recruitment Manager, your accountabilities will be a blend of leading the efficient day-to-day running of our recruitment operation for all Retail Management roles, as well as continuously evolving and innovating our candidate touchpoints and service to attract the very best talent in the market who will lead our colleagues to serve our customers brilliantly.

Your role will encompass shaping and delivering the recruitment strategy and priorities, designing and implementing a blend of proactive and reactive initiatives, leveraging technology and automation to power our processes, efficiency and compliance, and ultimately ensure every candidate has a positive and consistent candidate experience.

You will manage a team of Recruitment Leads and Recruiters, championing a high-performance and fearless culture and driving best practices. Additionally, you will play a vital role in identifying strategic improvements, optimising recruitment metrics, managing risks, and resolving complex recruitment queries or escalations. You will understand how to implement and manage all of these at scale and at pace, and be able to construct approaches that will have an impact across thousands of hiring managers and stakeholders.

Your focus will also extend to promoting diversity and inclusion, nurturing a proactive sourcing function, analysing recruitment data and engaging with third-party agencies. Moreover, you will contribute to the growth and development of your team and advance your own knowledge and skills in the recruitment market.

Who you are

• A recruitment professional who champions recruitment as one of the most impactful ways that a People team can impact an organisation and transform business outcomes.
• Progressive thinker who can balance innovation and continuous improvement with a practical and operational mindset.
• Excited about working in an organisation committed to ‘good food’ and serving customers brilliantly.
• Possess strong knowledge of recruitment practices, technology, and systems that would allow you and your team to recruit the very best leaders for our retail teams.
• A great ambassador for our People Division, with excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills, and build strong relationships with a large volume of stakeholders, hiring managers and external partners.
• Strong commercial skills, balancing recruitment needs and risk with commercial necessity.
• Curious about the external market, and knowledge of best-in-class attraction techniques.
• Strong understanding of technology and how to get the best out of our recruitment systems and how these interact with our broader HR platforms.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to collect, analyse, and interpret data to drive decision making and continuous improvement for your business area.
• Confident in bringing recruitment stories to life through the use of different insights and data sources.
• Action-orientated with high energy, pace, agility and excellent judgement, driven to deliver a service that is efficient, professional, externally credible, and has our hiring managers, candidate customer at the heart of all decisions made.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Our people are at the heart of our business, and we are looking for those that are just as passionate about that as we are. Join our People team, and come with us on a journey as we transform the way we do HR. Our team is made up of business partners working with leaders to get the most out of their teams, specialist knowledge in our centres of expertise, and colleague-centric, efficient people services. Our work ranges from making sure that our 150,000+ colleagues are paid on time to attracting brilliant talent to drive our strategy, to unlocking the skills and capability of our colleagues. This is a fast-moving business, and we make sure our policies and rewards keep up with that too. We know flexibility is important and helps you be more productive so there's more choice than ever about where and when you work. When it comes to your development, we'll support your growth in your own unique way. When you join us, you’ll be joining a team that knows just what it means to be happy and engaged, and who makes a real impact across our business.