Job Description
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
As our Talent Sourcing Executive, you will make a meaningful impact by finding and engaging with top talent across various business areas. With access to cutting-edge sourcing technologies and a focus on building diverse talent pipelines, you will play a vital role in driving our long-term recruitment strategies.
What you'll do
You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle, ensuring that we find, engage, and hire the right talent across multiple business areas and disciplines. Your main focus will be to source quality and diverse, passive candidates through various channels, such as our CRM, Talent Insight Tools, LinkedIn, job boards, marketplaces, and social media platforms. Working closely with our recruitment operation teams, you will organise both in-person and virtual recruitment events, building strong networks and talent pipelines. Attending industry events and meet-ups will also be part of your role, keeping you up to date with the candidate market and generating interest in our brands. In addition, you will contribute to reducing the cost and time per hire by converting passive candidates into successful hires, while ensuring a great candidate experience and maintaining a positive employer brand. Building strong relationships with stakeholders and continuously improving sourcing processes through sharing best practices will be key to your success.
Who you are
You are an experienced recruiter with a deep understanding of best practices in talent acquisition and sourcing strategies. Your knowledge and expertise in utilising resourcing technologies and social networking platforms enable you to build strong talent pools and pipelines, while your ability to engage with candidates and stakeholders fosters collaboration and promotes diversity and inclusion. With your excellent judgement, commercial awareness, and commitment to delivering a great candidate experience, you contribute to the success of our end-to-end sourcing lifecycle, finding and hiring the right talent to support the diverse needs of our business. You champion recruitment processes and sharing knowledge across the team. With an ambition to stay up to date with new innovations in attraction methodologies and your ability to thrive in a fast-paced, flexible environment demonstrate your self-motivation and commitment to continuous improvement.
What you’ll Know and Show
Essentials
- Knowledge and experience in the use of resourcing technologies and social networking to build candidate/talent pools, across a number of areas
- Ambition to increase knowledge and commercial awareness whilst keeping up to date with new innovations in attraction methodologies
- Excellent judgement and the ability to collaborate effectively with different teams
- Confidence when interacting with candidates, hiring managers and wider stakeholders, whilst demonstrating a passion for diversity and inclusion in all approaches
- Championing recruitment processes and sharing knowledge with others
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).