Recruitment Lead

Role overview

Talent attraction and workforce planning

• Develop a proactive talent attraction approach and manpower plan, including current and future needs, role profiling and salary benchmarking.
• Build diverse candidate pools using direct sourcing, LinkedIn, job boards, referrals and advertising.
• Maintain employer brand and a positive candidate experience.
• Partner with hiring managers on recruitment needs and role profiles; keep job descriptions available and up to date.
• Engage with professional trade associations, colleges, training providers and business organisations, and recommend best practice and market trends.

Recruitment and selection

• Lead the end-to-end recruitment process from approval to recruit through successful appointment.
• Complete and maintain recruitment authorisations, job descriptions, trackers and documentation.
• Write and advertise vacancies across appropriate job boards, websites and social media.
• Coordinate sourcing, shortlisting, interviews, assessments and selection with hiring managers.
• Support interview preparation, note taking, feedback and second interviews where required.
• Manage candidate communications, including interview invitations, feedback, offers and unsuccessful-candidate correspondence.
• Coordinate pre-employment checks, including Right to Work, references, qualifications, DBS and role-specific checks.
• Maintain accurate recruitment records, trackers and systems.

Recruitment data and improvement

• Maintain systems and databases for accurate tracking and reporting of the recruitment lifecycle.
• Use data and metrics to produce recruitment reports and dashboards that inform decisions and continuous improvement.
• Monitor and report recruitment and talent KPIs, including activity, costs, vacancies and time to hire.
• Analyse recruitment, turnover, skills and workforce data to identify trends and risks.
• Provide management reports and updates and support recruitment process improvement.

Offers, contracts and onboarding

• Issue accurate, timely offers and coordinate offer letters, employment contracts and related documentation with HR.
• Ensure salary, benefits, working hours, start dates and other agreed terms are reflected accurately in offer and contract documents.
• Coordinate contract amendments and resolve offer, contract and pre-employment queries with candidates and managers.
• Ensure required documentation is completed before the employee's start date.
• Manage onboarding from offer acceptance through commencement and initial onboarding requirements.
• Coordinate new-starter documentation and liaise with managers, Payroll, IT, Facilities and other departments to prepare for start dates.
• Coordinate onboarding needs such as equipment, uniforms, access, identification, training and induction.

Additional role expectations

Requirements

• Able to undertake the recruitment and HR administrative duties described, including coordination with managers, employees, Payroll and the wider HR team.
• Able to coordinate the company's apprenticeship programme and support wider HR activities and projects.
• Able to undertake other tasks they are capable of performing when requested.