Sopra Steria
Resourcing Project Lead
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Are you passionate about leading transformational change and delivering projects that make a real impact on how organisations attract and hire talent?
We're looking for a Resourcing Project Lead to join our growing Resourcing Project Team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a variety of recruitment and resourcing transformation projects, helping to deliver meaningful change for our clients and the wider business. You'll work alongside a collaborative team of Project Leads, Project Supports, Assistant Project Leads and Project Portfolio Managers, all focused on delivering high-quality outcomes in a supportive and delivery-focused environment.
This is a hybrid role with Newport as the preferred office location. You'll primarily work remotely, with occasional travel to Newport for team meetings, collaboration sessions, training, and key project activities as required.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading multiple resourcing and recruitment transformation projects from initiation through to delivery and transition into business-as-usual.
- Engaging with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to define requirements and deliver successful project outcomes.
- Assessing change requests, identifying impacts, risks, issues, and potential solutions.
- Managing project plans, timelines, resources, budgets, and performance to ensure successful delivery.
- Producing clear and accurate project reporting, providing transparency on progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Building strong stakeholder relationships and identifying opportunities to enhance resourcing and recruitment services.
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What you'll bring:
- Experience delivering projects within a resourcing, recruitment, talent acquisition, or workforce planning environment.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Knowledge of recruitment technologies and Applicant Tracking Systems such as Oleeo, Avature, or similar platforms.
- Understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.
- The ability to manage competing priorities and drive delivery in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and influencing skills.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience delivering medium to large-scale transformation projects or programmes.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify process improvements and drive efficiencies.
- Experience managing project budgets, resource planning, and cost control.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or supporting the development of colleagues.
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Newport
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Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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SSCL is the market leader in critical business support services for the UK public sector. Operating at size and scale since 2013, SSCL has delivered over £750 million of savings - providing more funds for front line public services. We transform services using digital solutions and innovative technology, developing platforms that enable flexibility to meet the changing needs of our Government, Defence and Police clients.
We employ around 3,000 people who sit at the heart of our business strategy. Their passion and connection to our values and our purpose is what sets us apart and puts SSCL in the Top 20 of GPTW large workplaces. ‘Living SSCL’ means we deliver social value within our services and work with our clients and community partners to support programmes such as education and employability initiatives across the UK.
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