Recruitment Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to support BAE Systems as a Recruitment Specialist. Reporting to the Recruitment Business Partner, you will work collaboratively within functional and operational teams across BAE Systems supporting end-to-end recruitment activity in a fast paced, complex environment.
This role will provide you with great exposure across the business with the opportunity to build upon your knowledge, becoming a business area subject matter expert.
The Recruitment Specialist will engage hiring managers in a consultative capacity to ensure that they have the right people, in the right place, at the right time. The role holder will take ownership and accountability to ensure the team delivers resource plans across the sectors, from initial sourcing of CV’s right through to first day readiness.
The role holder will be a self-starter, highly motivated and able to act independently with minimal supervision to provide advice and guidance based on recruitment best practice, market conditions, and being a subject matter expert to facilitate the overall recruitment process.

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):
- Support the day to day co-ordination of teams workflow activities in line with timescales
- Taking ownership and responsibility of escalated requests and queries/complaints to resolution
- Building and developing effective and collaborative relationships with colleagues and Stakeholders
- Ensuring correct processes are followed in line with procedures and agreed work instruction
- Supporting continuous improvement projects and implementation of new processes within the Contingent Recruitment Team .
- Optimise the contingent recruitment service, through the review of existing working practices and processes and by identifying and recommending areas for enhancement
- Working with hiring managers from initial vacancy consultation until first day readiness, setting and managing expectations and offering a world class end to end recruitment service
- Managing relationships with the agencies on the preferred suppliers list and ensure they fully support the contingent recruitment campaigns
- Working as part of a team to ensure KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved
- Providing advice and guidance based on recruitment best practice, market conditions, and being a subject matter expert to facilitate the overall recruitment process
- Providing regular and timely communications, ensuring candidates and hiring managers are efficiently engaged and supported throughout the recruitment cycle
- Ability to manage high volume and a variety of vacancies across a specific business area

Knowledge:
- Recruitment processes
- Extensive recruitment experience and using Applicant Tracking System platforms
- Ability to understand and champions the importance of data integrity, timely and accurate reporting and uses this information to run efficient processes
- Experience of recruiting volume campaigns as well as unique roles and the variances in between
- Ability to define service offerings that deliver value to the customer
- Experience of delivering to and working with service level agreements and service definitions.
- Ability to resolve multiple highly complex operational issues
- Confidence and ability to challenge and influence at all levels internally and externally

Skills:
- Ability to build trust & Key relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent IT skills, in particular MS Word and MS Excel
- Committed to learning and continuous improvement
- Ability to work at a fast pace, sometimes working under pressure to challenging deadlines whilst maintaining the highest standards of accuracy
- Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and communications skills
- Self motivated, enthusiastic team player with a positive ‘can do’ attitude
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload and the workload of team members
- Excellent presentation, communication, engagement and influencing skills
- Operational delivery and customer service excellence mindset

No specific qualifications are required however the successful candidate will have a recruitment background i.e. Agency experience or internal recruitment experience. It is a large team of over 35 compromising a mixture of Recruitment Specialists, Recruitment Operations Professionals and Recruitment Business Partners situated between various UK sites. Various smaller teams covering the contingent recruitment of all BAE sectors. The role is based at Channel Way Preston and is a hybrid working role. This role has a minimum requirement of 2 days per week in the office however, the candidate will need to be flexible and able to attend site if they are requested to.

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this role.

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