Southern Water
Talent Acquisition
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Closing Date Job Title: Talent Acquisition Partner
Location: Durrington, hybrid working
Contract Type: fixed term contract
Shape the Future. Influence Hiring. Deliver Talent That Makes a Difference.
Are you passionate about connecting great people with great opportunities? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same, balancing multiple priorities while delivering exceptional recruitment outcomes?
We're looking for two Recruiters / Talent Acquisition Partners to join our Talent Acquisition team and play a key role in shaping the future workforce of our organisation. This is far more than a recruitment role; it's an opportunity to become a trusted business partner, talent strategist, sourcing specialist, and diversity champion.
Working closely with leaders across the business, you'll develop innovative attraction strategies, build diverse talent pipelines, and deliver high-quality recruitment outcomes across a broad and varied portfolio of vacancies. You'll thrive in a dynamic environment where hiring demand is high, priorities evolve quickly, and your ability to balance strategic thinking with exceptional delivery truly makes an impact.
If you're energized by pace, motivated by results, and passionate about creating outstanding experiences for both candidates and hiring managers, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategic Workforce Partnership
You'll become a trusted advisor to your business areas, developing a deep understanding of current and future workforce needs, market challenges, and emerging skills requirements. You'll:
- Partner with leaders to understand hiring priorities, workforce plans, and capability gaps.
- Provide expert advice on talent availability, market trends, and attraction strategies.
- Shape recruitment plans that balance quality, speed, cost, and diversity outcomes.
- Use talent intelligence and market insight to influence hiring decisions and future workforce planning.
Talent Attraction & Recruitment Delivery
This is where you'll make a real impact. You'll manage a varied and active recruitment portfolio, delivering end-to-end recruitment across multiple disciplines while ensuring an exceptional stakeholder and candidate experience. You'll:
- Lead recruitment activity across a diverse range of roles, including specialist, hard-to-fill, and business-critical vacancies.
- Proactively source and engage talent using direct sourcing, talent mapping, networking, and targeted attraction strategies.
- Build and maintain diverse talent pipelines to meet both current and future hiring needs.
- Create meaningful connections with candidates and nurture long-term talent communities.
- Successfully balance multiple recruitment campaigns, competing priorities, and changing business demands in a fast-paced environment.
- Deliver a high-quality, responsive recruitment service that supports business growth and operational success.
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Data, Insight & Continuous Improvement
You'll combine recruitment expertise with data-driven decision-making to continuously improve outcomes and drive performance. You'll:
- Monitor pipeline health, recruitment activity, conversion rates, and diversity metrics.
- Use insight to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Manage recruitment performance against agreed service levels and business expectations.
- Drive continuous improvement through evidence-based recruitment practices and market intelligence.
Recruitment Campaigns & Employer Brand
Working alongside our managed service provider, you'll help design and deliver engaging attraction campaigns that strengthen our employer brand and reach diverse talent pools. You'll:
- Develop targeted recruitment campaigns aligned to workforce priorities.
- Use market insights to identify innovative sourcing opportunities.
- Support initiatives that position us as an employer of choice within competitive talent markets.
Championing Inclusion
You'll play an active role in helping us build a more diverse and inclusive workforce. You'll:
- Embed inclusive recruitment practices throughout the hiring journey.
- Champion fair, unbiased assessment and selection processes.
- Support initiatives that improve representation and diversity outcomes.
- Foster an environment where everyone feels respected, valued, and able to belong.
What You'll Bring
We're looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with excellent delivery capability and is comfortable operating in a busy, fast-changing recruitment environment.
Essential Experience
- Experience working in a Talent Acquisition Partner, Recruiter, Recruitment Business Partner, or 360 Recruitment Consultant role.
- Proven success in proactive sourcing, talent pooling, and candidate engagement.
- Experience recruiting within one or more of the following sectors: IT & Digital, Engineering, Water, Utilities, or Infrastructure, Professional Services.
- Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to manage recruitment activity, reporting, and compliance.
- A track record of successfully managing multiple vacancies and stakeholders simultaneously in a high-volume recruitment environment.
Key Skills
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Commercial awareness and consultative approach.
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with fluctuating demands and competing priorities.
- Data-driven decision-making and analytical capability.
- Collaborative mindset with a genuine commitment to team success.
- Passion for diversity, inclusion, and delivering exceptional candidate experiences.
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Qualifications
REC and/or CIPD qualification (or working towards) desirable.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to be part of a high-performing Talent Acquisition team where you'll have the autonomy to influence hiring decisions, shape recruitment strategy, and directly impact the future success of the organization. You'll enjoy the challenge of working in a fast-moving environment, partnering with a broad range of stakeholders, and tackling diverse recruitment needs while developing your expertise as a strategic Talent Acquisition professional.
If you're at your best when the pace is high, priorities are varied, and your work genuinely makes a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Our purpose is big. Our impact is huge. And we know that every single one of us has the power, through our actions, to positively change society and the environment for good. It’s why careers with us have real meaning. Because, if you’re driven and ambitious, we can offer you huge opportunities for personal growth, professional development, and constant innovation.
Forever evolving. Forever focused on doing the right thing, we empower and encourage everyone to play to their strengths and to help us shape a fair and positive future for all.
We believe in Water for Life. If you do too, Dive Right In.
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority.
That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve.
Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances?
Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
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