Talent Acquisition Team Leader

Talent Acquisition Team Leader 
£32,640 to £37,000 plus great benefits (Work level 6A)  
Manchester City Centre (hybrid working, with minimum two days a week in the office)

At the Co-op, we don’t think there’s anything more important to our success than recruiting the right people at the right time for our business. We have an exciting secondment opportunity for a Team Leader to join our Talent Acquisition team and manage the recruitment of some of our sales and service colleagues across several of our businesses and support centre functions, making sure that we’re providing an excellent service and recruiting brilliant people into the business.  

In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of Candidate Administrators as they handle volumes of vacancies across several different business areas. You will manage stakeholder relationships, work directly with hiring managers to ensure you understand their requirements and come up with recruitment plans to ensure their needs are met. Working towards various key performance targets, we’ll look for you to lead, motivate and develop your team. You’ll drive colleague performance through honest, direct and constructive conversations whilst being an expert and a champion of our resourcing service. We’ll also look to you to handle queries that are brought up by your team, resolving and supporting them through to completion.  

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of around 7 Candidate Administrators, taking on all line management responsibilities for these colleagues 
• Manage the team’s workload daily through system reporting and task allocation 
• Work directly with hiring managers to create a fit for purpose recruitment plan by conducting vacancy briefings, drawing up assessment/screening criteria, monitor and play back performance against targeted timelines and reviewing each recruitment cycle to identify any areas of improvement. 
• Investigate service that has fallen below the required levels 
• Work with Talent Acquisition Partners to fully understand your business areas, future demand plans, business changes and ensure we are providing an excellent service

This role would suit people who have

• Experience of motivating and supporting colleagues through coaching and mentoring 
• Previous experience of end-to-end recruitment, managing your own vacancies and owning stakeholder relationships 
• Previous experience planning & managing recruitment campaigns to fill volumes of vacancies within fixed, and often tight, deadlines
• The ability to manage large volumes of work
• The ability to work at pace in a high volume and customer facing environment 
• Excellent communication skills 
• The ability to influence and constructively challenge people at all levels

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Diversity and Inclusion