Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Description

Your new roleWe have a fantastic opportunity for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join the team on a 12-month fixed term contract, providing maternity cover.Within this role, you will partner with the organisation to understand the talent acquisition requirements in the short, medium, and long term, ensuring that talent acquisition strategies are put in place across attraction and selection to deliver the rightpeople at the right time to the organisation. In addition to this, you will manage the end-to-end recruitment of senior hires providing an excellent candidate and stakeholder experience, and act as a subject matter expert providing advice and guidance to linemanagers and the recruitment team across all areas of talent acquisition.As we further invest in and transform our recruitment capability, you will play a key part in driving transformation workstreams, interpreting data to inform strategies and to make recommendations for improvements.What youll be leading on

• Work with Senior HR Business Partners and workforce planning to understand the short, medium, and long-term talent acquisition requirements.
• Translate talent acquisition requirements into attraction and selection strategies that meet the needs of your directorates.
• Work with the recruitment team to provide a pipeline of work linked to workforce planning, supporting them in understanding the best routes to markets.
• Lead on designing recruitment campaigns working with the recruitment team to deliver the campaigns.
• Own and manage the end-to-end process for senior recruitment.
• Provide excellent candidate and stakeholder engagement, suggesting and implementing improvements that will continuously build the level customer service.
• Lead and support on wider talent acquisition projects.

To be successful youll need

• Experience as a business partner delivering end to end talent acquisition/recruitment strategies.
• Demonstratable evidence in managing senior recruitment.
• Previous experience of using workforce planning to inform talent acquisition forward planning.
• Experience of designing and delivering attraction and selection strategies and campaigns.
• Demonstratable experience of improving talent acquisition processes.
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders and driving capability improvement in stakeholders.

A bit about usOur role in Human Resources is to support, develop and nurture you so that we can all achieve our full potential. By providing our people with the right skills and knowledge, we are enabling the business to support the delivery of our corporate plan andcontinue to connect the country. We champion our values of safety, integrity, passion, ownership and teamwork.About UsWhy you should join usAt National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. Were proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then youll be a great fit for our organisation.An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and were open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finallyWe reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires