Sainsbury's
Senior Recruiter - Technology
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Location: Hybrid working - SSC Office (Manchester, Coventry or London) and home
Why join us
At Sainsbury's, people are at the heart of everything we do, and as a Senior Tech Recruiter you'll play a key role in shaping the talent that drives our technology transformation and future growth.
This is an exciting opportunity to partner with some of our most influential technology leaders, supporting recruitment across a broad range of technical and digital disciplines. You'll be trusted to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influence hiring decisions, and help attract exceptional talent into critical roles that make a real difference across the organisation.
You'll join a supportive, collaborative recruitment team that values fresh ideas, embraces flexibility, and is passionate about delivering an outstanding candidate experience. Whether you're helping to hire specialist technical talent, building capability for emerging technologies, or creating talent pipelines for future growth, you'll have the opportunity to make a visible impact while continuing to develop your own career.
What you'll do
As a Senior Tech Recruiter, you'll be responsible for end-to-end recruitment across a range of technology, digital and data functions, partnering closely with hiring managers to identify, attract and secure the very best talent.
You'll act as a trusted advisor, bringing market insight, talent intelligence and recruitment expertise to every conversation. You'll help hiring managers navigate an increasingly competitive talent market, challenging thinking where needed and recommending innovative attraction strategies to secure diverse, high-quality candidates.
Candidate experience will be at the centre of everything you do. From first conversation through to offer acceptance, you'll ensure every candidate has a positive, engaging and inclusive experience that reflects our employer brand.
You'll also have the opportunity to lead and support recruitment projects that go beyond individual vacancies. This could include building strategic talent pipelines, delivering hiring campaigns, supporting employer branding initiatives, or helping shape new ways of working across the recruitment function. Using data, market trends and candidate feedback, you'll continuously identify opportunities to improve how we attract and hire talent.
Who you are
You're a passionate recruiter who thrives on building relationships, influencing stakeholders and delivering exceptional hiring outcomes.
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You'll bring experience recruiting within technology and digital environments and enjoy partnering with senior leaders to solve business challenges through great hiring. You love getting under the skin of technical functions, understanding what great talent looks like, and finding creative ways to attract it.
You're naturally proactive and commercially minded, using market insight, recruitment data and candidate feedback to inform your approach. You're equally comfortable managing multiple vacancies, leading recruitment projects, and coaching others by sharing your expertise and best practices.
Most importantly, you'll be someone who genuinely cares about candidate experience, diversity and inclusion, and creating great outcomes for both candidates and hiring managers.
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end recruitment within technology, digital, data or engineering environments.
- Strong understanding of the technology talent market and experience recruiting across a variety of technical disciplines.
- Previous experience building strong partnerships with hiring managers and stakeholders to influence hiring decisions and deliver successful outcomes.
- Proven success using direct sourcing techniques, including LinkedIn Recruiter and other talent-mapping tools, to identify and engage high-quality candidates.
- Experience managing multiple recruitment campaigns, projects, or business-critical hiring initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of recruitment data, market intelligence and talent insights, using these to drive decision-making and improve hiring outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and consulting skills.
- A track record of delivering an exceptional candidate experience while balancing pace, quality and stakeholder expectations.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience recruiting for a combination of Software Engineering, Product, Data, Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Architecture or Technology Leadership roles.
- Experience working within a complex, fast-paced organisation.
- Experience supporting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives through recruitment.
- Exposure to employer branding, talent attraction campaigns, or strategic workforce planning
RESPONSIBILITIES
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work–life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a start, we work as business partners and specialists — whether that’s making sure nearly 150,000 colleagues are paid on time, or shaping a strategy that helps us attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their potential. This is a fast-moving business, and our policies and rewards evolve with it. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives, so there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours matters.
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QUALIFICATIONS
" 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)."
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