Retail Management Recruitment Lead
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Manchester Store Support Centre and Home, Manchester, M4 3AL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Group HR
Closing date: 30 May 2025
Requisition ID: 305480
Our people are at the heart of our business, and we are looking for those that are just as passionate about that as we are. Join our People team, and come with us on a journey as we transform the way we do HR. Our team is made up of business partners working with leaders to get the most out of their teams, specialist knowledge in our centres of expertise, and colleague-centric, efficient people services. Our work ranges from making sure that our 150,000+ colleagues are paid on time to attracting brilliant talent to drive our strategy, to unlocking the skills and capability of our colleagues. This is a fast-moving business, and we make sure our policies and rewards keep up with that too. We know flexibility is important and helps you be more productive so there's more choice than ever about where and when you work. When it comes to your development, we'll support your growth in your own unique way. When you join us, you’ll be joining a team that knows just what it means to be happy and engaged, and who makes a real impact across our business.
Why join us
Being part of the retail recruitment team at Sainsbury’s means you’ll play an important role in how we show up and serve our customers every day. We are on an exciting journey to take Sainsbury’s to the ‘Next Level’ and this is an opportunity to be part of an ambitious team and organisation.
As a Recruitment Lead, you’ll be at the centre of our recruitment operation for our Retail Management roles across Sainsbury’s and Argos. You’ll be highly focused on consistency and efficiency, as well as always driving continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with the team of recruiters as well as the recruitment manager to ensure great experiences for our hiring managers and candidates from attraction to job offer, and supporting us finding the very best leadership talent who want to work in good food.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the efficient running of our day-to-day recruitment operation for our Retail Management roles, including managing Recruiter resource and priorities.
- Supporting the recruitment journey for more senior retail leadership roles (e.g. large store management), when required.
- Support the development of a high-performing and knowledgeable team with a particular focus and passion on delivering brilliant candidate experiences.
- Continuously review our recruitment journey to ensure it provides a seamless experience for our hiring managers and candidates.
- Support the implementation of strategic improvements as well as identifying and justifying opportunities for improvement yourself, with a key focus on improving recruitment metrics (E.g. Time to Fill and Conversion rates).
- Support the delivery of our business transformation plans to support business performance.
- Support deliver our inclusive recruitment plans.
- Act as a point of escalation for complex recruitment queries.
- Proactively support data analytics and the reporting of recruitment trends (using both internal and external data) to benchmark our services and volumes and provide insights to key stakeholders.
- Continuously reviewing our recruitment processes in line with our applicant tracking system (We use Oracle Recruiting Cloud).
Who you are:
- A recruitment professional who is passionate about talent experiences and process and understands recruitment as one of the most impactful ways that a People team can impact an organisations success and business outcomes
- Experience of working in both professional recruitment environments and of supporting high volume campaigns for more entry level roles with a proven ability to provide engaging candidate experiences at all levels.
- An understanding of recruitment data (Including KPIs), how to manage it, interpret it and take actions to improve it.
- A deep understanding of recruitment challenges specific to the food retail sector.
- Excellent judgement and collaboration skills with the ability to communicate effectively and build strong relationships from store colleagues up to director level.
- Familiar with inclusive recruitment practises and using these to support marginalised groups whilst ensuring fair recruitment practise.
- A good understanding of recruitment technology, how to get the best out of our recruitment systems and how these interact with our broader HR platforms.
- Possess strong knowledge of recruitment practices, technology, and systems that would support recruitment of the very best leaders for our retail teams.
- Excited about working in an organisation committed to ‘good food’ and serving customers brilliantly.
- Confident in bringing recruitment stories to life through the use of different insights and data sources.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
