CPS Group (UK) Limited
SmartRecruiters Functional Lead / Functional Consultant

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SAP SmartRecruiters Functional Lead / Functional Consultant
Contract: 6 months
Location: Remote (UK-based ONLY)
Start: ASAP
Rate: £Competitive Market Rates
Clearance: SC Cleared (or willing to undergo)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced SAP SmartRecruiters Functional Lead / Functional Consultant to provide functional and product expertise across a recruitment platform within a Central Government environment.
You will work with Resourcing, Digital and third-party suppliers to translate business requirements into effective SmartRecruiters solutions, improve recruitment processes, and support integration with SAP Employee Central.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the functional SME and lead for SmartRecruiters.
- Gather requirements and lead workshops with HR and recruitment stakeholders.
- Design and improve end-to-end recruitment processes, including automation and optimisation.
- Configure SmartRecruiters across requisitions, job advertising, candidate management, workflows, approvals, interviews, offers, reporting and AI functionality.
- Support integration with SAP Employee Central and third-party solutions, including candidate redaction/blind-sifting.
- Develop functional specifications, process maps and configuration documentation.
- Support recruitment reporting, dashboards, data quality and KPI development.
- Develop training materials and support user adoption.
- Ensure solutions meet relevant recruitment policies, legislation, GDPR, security and governance requirements.
- Work with and manage third-party suppliers where required.
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Essential Experience
- Significant hands-on SmartRecruiters functional, product or business systems experience.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment and Talent Acquisition processes.
- Experience configuring SmartRecruiters workflows and business processes.
- Strong requirements gathering, analysis and functional documentation skills.
- Experience leading workshops with senior stakeholders.
- Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with third-party suppliers.
- Understanding of recruitment data, reporting and KPIs.
- Active SC clearance (or eligibility to undergo SC Clearance)


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Desirable
- SmartRecruiters implementation or major transformation experience.
- Experience integrating SmartRecruiters with HR/ERP or identity-management platforms.
- SAP SuccessFactors / Employee Central experience.
- Central Government or Civil Service recruitment experience.
- Agile delivery experience.
- SmartRecruiters certification or equivalent experience.
For more information or immediate consideration for this opportunity, please contact Charlie Grant at CPS Group UK on 02920 37 55 99 or email cgrant@cpsgroupuk.com
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