Talent Acquisition Specialist

Company

Company Overview

Background & Role Overview

Riyadh

Role Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, end-to-end administration services across the full recruitment lifecycle, including but not limited managing job postings, updating the applicant tracking systems and maintaining accurate candidate records
• Guiding and supporting managers on role design, market insights, assessment methods and selection decisions
• Partnering with the People Operations Specialist to ensure accuracy of employee records in our HRIS platform (currently Bamboo HR) and SharePoint, ensuring data integrity is maintained
• Own the creation of offer packs, employment contracts, self employed contractor agreements
• Working side by side with the People Operations Specialist to ensure new hire information provided in a timely manner to appropriate internal parties (e.g. Payroll, IT)
• Managing the candidate talent pool, seeking opportunities to stay connected
• Supporting hiring managers to make confident, timely hiring decisions
• Scheduling interviews, organising panels, preparing interview packs and ensuring smooth communication between candidate and hiring managers – delivering best in class candidate experience
• Where applicable, conducting first line interviews to shortlist candidates
• Ensuring the company’s candidate compliance requirements are adhered to.
• Partnering with the internal vetting team to ensure all pre-employment and right to work checks are carried out in a timely manner.
• Maintain accurate recruitment metrics to enable the creation of meaningful recruitment reports and ensuring data integrity across systems and trackers
• Own the pre-hire onboarding processes so our new hires’ experience reflects our People First values and culture
• Building relationships with industry and market networks and agencies to source candidates for hard to fill roles
• Support the Head of People & Talent in the creation of timely and accurate recruitment reports and dashboards (weekly, monthly, quarterly, ad-hoc)
• Contribute to wider People Team projects designed to build out policies, processes, and skills across the organisation to improve the employee experience.
• Provide expert guidance on hiring processes (internal and external hiring), applicant tracking systems and recruitment documentation within a timely manner
• Coordinating candidate assessments, supporting candidates and hiring managers through the process as required
• Working in collaboration with wider business areas to ensure a seamless candidate and employee experience
• May be asked to act as HR note taker during meetings as required
• Proactively seek efficiency and quality enhancement opportunities to continuously improve how we work

Essential

• Experience in Recruitment operations, administration or shared services centres of excellence
• Strong foundational recruitment process knowledge and a core understanding of UK employment legislation
• Experience using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), HRIS platform (ideally Bamboo HR)
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (including Excel, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams)
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
• Experience using Bamboo HR, or similar HRIS platform
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple hiring requests at any one time
• Commitment to delivering an excellent candidate and colleague experience
• Understands inclusive hiring practices and fair selection methods
• Proactively takes ownership of work activities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to deal with information in a confidential manner
• Ability to work to strict deadlines
• Strong relationship skills

Desirable

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Experience of coordinating and administering contracts for self-employed contractors
• Experience working in a multi-regional organisation Saville Assessments Accredited (Level A and Level B)