Saga Group

Hybrid - monthly visits to London or Ashford, Kent

With ambitions to elevate the way Saga attracts, recruits, and onboards exceptional talent, it's a great time to join our Talent Acquisition team. Whether it's hires in our professional functions, specialist roles to support niche areas of the business or mapping the labour market to build diverse talent pools, you'll be at the heart of it all as a Talent Acquisition Partner.

A critical role within the team, you'll have a large degree of autonomy to build relationships with your stakeholder groups, design appropriate talent attraction approaches and support positive processes and ways of working across the attraction to onboarding journey.

The ideal candidate will have experience of junior level hiring with demonstrable experience of building strong stakeholder relationships and a proactive approach to delivering seamless candidate and hiring manager experiences.

You will be required to visit the London or Ashford Saga Hub around 1-2 times a month. You must be within a reasonable commuting distance to attend one of these offices.

Role Responsibility

The Talent Acquisition Partner will be fully responsible for the following;

• Deliver the end-to-end recruitment process for your vacancies
• Collaborate closely with the Talent Acquisition team, People partners and Hiring Managers to deliver excellent hiring processes for your stakeholders
• Be a champion for the TA team internally and externally
• Advise stakeholders on recruitment best practices, define attraction strategies and campaigns across multiple channels and deliver a diverse range of candidates for every role
• Proactively headhunt exceptional talent using LinkedIn recruiter and other channels to reach out to candidates directly
• Stay connected with external market factors and new industry practices/trends and provide insights to stakeholders
• You'll Interview candidates to assess their skills against the role criteria and provide evidence-based insights to Hiring Managers to support recruiting decisions
• Build and maintain relationships with a network of talent and potential candidates for the future
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the end-to-end recruitment process
• Market your roles effectively through copywriting outstanding job advertisements to attract and engage the best candidates on all channels e.g., social, LinkedIn, careers website
• Advise hiring managers on assessment and selection tools to ensure fair and diverse hiring decisions
• Support on ad hoc improvement projects in the recruiting process and drive these initiatives across the business

The Ideal Candidate

Candidates will need to have previously worked in an in-house recruitment / Talent Acquisition team or have gained recruitment experience in a fast-paced high-volume role such as a RPO function. Plus, the following skills and experience;

• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Flexible and adaptable style, can easily learn to recruit across different functions
• Experience managing the full recruitment life cycle including social media, marketing, advertising, interviewing and onboarding.
• Sourcing - demonstrate understanding of, and a track record in, utilising creative and effective methods to source quality candidates directly.
• Personal Organisation - You'll possess excellent organisational skills and will be comfortable managing a high volume of vacancies and able to prioritise effectively
• You'll be an outstanding communicator who is excellent at building productive relationships with your hiring managers and candidates

Package Description

Everyday our colleagues deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. We believe exceptional work deserves even more exceptional rewards, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues.

• Our working week is 35 hours per week, these can be worked flexibly to suit your working style
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave up to 5 extra days
• Pension scheme matched up to 10%
• Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises and holidays!
• Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Grandparents leave
• Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5%
• Income protection
• Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform

About the Company

Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.

Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.

Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

Salary from £28000 to £33000 depending on experience