Talent Acquisition Partner

Talent Acquisition Partner (Maternity Cover)

Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career.

Competitive salary

Flexible working with weekly site visits to Boston and Bourne

37.5 hours per week

08.30am - 5pm

Bonus, Private Healthcare, highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

Why join us?

We're proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a Talent Acquisition Partner with plenty of support and opportunity, empowering you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do.

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

About the role.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you will provide a professional partnering service to deliver all Talent Acquisition activities across the business sector ensuring current and future Talent Acquisition needs are met across both the Volume and Salaried population.

Accountabilities include:

1. To work closely with your business area to ensure a full and seamless recruitment service is provided across the whole sector with line manager and site HR being kept fully up to date of the activity progress.
2. Managing vacancy intake sessions with the hiring community to gain a detailed understanding of the required candidate, role profile, campaign planning with key dates and to advise on the optimal resourcing strategy.
3. To be recognised as a Talent Acquisition subject matter expert within your business sector providing advice and guidance to your client group to support their needs.
4. Build great working relationships and liaise with the sites to arrange assessment centres/interviews for volume recruitment candidates.
5. Provide weekly management information reports for the volume recruitment campaigns highlighting trends and issues & showcasing the key KPI's.

About you.

1. Experience working as a business partner with senior stakeholder manager experience in a matrix organisation.
2. Experience of recruiting for both Volume and Salaried positions.
3. Previous experience of working within a shared service recruitment function across a complex matrix organisation.
4. Proven ATS experience or equivalent.
5. Sound influencing skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships both internally and externally.
6. Creative and innovative with a willingness to challenge the status quo.
7. Sound problem-solving ability.
8. Proactive.
9. Ability to challenge constructively at all levels.
10. Flexibility in approach and thinking.
11. Ability to work under own initiative.
12. High attention to detail and quality of work.
13. Proven track record of delivering a quality talent acquisition service across multiple sites.

What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:

1. Life Assurance (2.5 x salary).
2. Private medical insurance.
3. Annual Bonus Scheme.
4. 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role).
5. Staff Shop.
6. Stakeholder Pension Scheme.
7. Discount & cashback platform.
8. Personal Accident Insurance.
9. Free health check.
10. Employee Assistance Programme.
11. A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans).
12. Salary sacrifice car lease scheme.
13. Free independent mortgage advice.
14. Discounted tutoring for children.
15. Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary.
16. Free car parking - Site dependant.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!