Head Office Recruiter

We have a fantastic opportunity within our Head Office recruitment team in Welwyn Garden City for an individual looking to join a big brand and who has experience recruiting into a Head Office environment.  The Head Office resourcing team are responsible for recruiting great talent into many specialist departments including Supply Chain, Distribution & Fulfilment, Marketing, HR, Change, Property, Legal, Procurement, etc.  We are ideally looking for someone who has experience of recruiting within one or more of these disciplines although we will consider other backgrounds.

Here in the Tesco recruitment team, we play a significant role in the development and success of our business - our world is fast paced and demanding, but hugely rewarding.  We are also one of the largest in-house recruitment teams in the UK, so if you love recruitment and are passionate about your career, there are endless opportunities to develop and progress here.

• Attracting and hiring great talent for Tesco Head Office through full end to end recruitment, with a focus on direct sourcing.
• Successfully delivering recruitment activity within tight timeframes.
• Build excellent relationships with our hiring manager and HR community, to fully understand requirements, keep them up to date on progress and provide a first class end to end service.
• Applying expertise and insight to inform recruitment plans and hiring decisions, providing a consultative approach and guiding hiring managers throughout.
• Defining and promoting a positive Employer Brand through networking, Social Media, events and other means.
• Using social and professional media platforms to attract passive and active candidates, building talent pools and candidate pipelines to service future hiring needs of the business.
• Helping to define and implement candidate assessment frameworks to ensure we’re hiring are the right fit both technically and culturally.
• Understanding the benefits of having a diverse, inclusive business and being a representative of our diversity principles at all times.

• Strong expertise in the 360 recruitment delivery cycle, with the ability to influence and consult at all stages of the process.
• Substantial recruitment experience ideally covering one or more Head Office discipline i.e. Supply Chain and Distribution & Fulfilment.
• Excellent professional media skills and proficient in using platforms such as LinkedIn and Indeed to identify great talent.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, ensuring all stakeholders and hiring managers are kept well informed of project progress.
• Niche talent “mining” skills, the ability to use boolean and x-ray search strings to find prospective candidates in less than obvious places.
• Very comfortable using Excel and cloud based Applicant Tracking Systems and using the systems to deliver insight and analytics to the business.
• In house experience would be preferable, however a passionate recruiter within the agency environment who demonstrates pro-activity to move in house would also be considered.