The Works
Talent Attraction Partner (MAT Cover)
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Location / Start Date
Location: Our team office day at Support Centre is Wednesday - you can choose to work remotely for the rest of the week, or use the office.
Start Date: For this 9-12mth Maternity FTC, we're aiming for Wednesday 30th September as a start date, giving you plenty of time for an induction and hand-over before the Maternity starts.
Why The Works?
We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. Whatever your story or background, we’re all about unlocking imagination and making creativity accessible to everyone, through screen free activities. Whether you’re engaging with customers on the frontline or supporting our colleagues behind the scenes, your impact can be profound and far-reaching. This is about inspiring people to read, learn, create and play, using their Time Well Spent. So, with the right passion, it all starts with you.
Become a Talent Attraction Partner (9-12mth, FTC MAT Cover)
As our Talent Attraction Partner for Support Centre & Distribution Centre, you'll be the go-to recruitment expert for these areas of the business. Reporting to the Talent Attraction Manager and supported by our Talent Attraction Coordinator, you'll lead recruitment activity from brief to offer, helping us attract and hire brilliant talent who are aligned to our values & behaviours, supporting our growth and success.
More than just filling vacancies, you'll build strong relationships with hiring managers, share market insights, salary benchmarking, and provide expert advice, coaching and recruitment training. You'll influence hiring decisions, champion best practice, and use data and insights to help managers make informed choices, ensuring every hire contributes to the long-term success of their teams.
You'll also play an active role in Talent Attraction projects and continuous improvement initiatives, helping us enhance our candidate experience, employer brand, and recruitment processes.
Your Mission
Recruitment
- Job brief discussions: Partner with hiring managers to understand the vacancy, team, function, superpowers within the team and identify who the ideal candidate is.
- Raise vacancies, manage the approval process, write the job advert and role profile, if required (for new or updated roles)
- Select, telephone-screen, and arrange interviews for candidates, whilst delivering an amazing candidate experience throughout - offering more insight on the role, function and business and screening against skill requirements, experience and values & behaviours.
- Own candidate communication experience through to offer or rejection.
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Partnering
- Partner with hiring managers and leadership teams across Support Centre and Distribution Centre functions to understand business priorities, workforce plans and upcoming hiring needs.
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, providing expert market insight, recruitment advice and talent solutions that support business objectives.
- Challenge and coach hiring managers to think beyond experience alone, hiring for potential, capability, values and behaviours that align with The Works.
- Coach hiring managers around the mindset of "candidates are our customers", ensuring every interaction protects and enhances our employer brand.
- Use recruitment data, market intelligence and hiring trends to influence decision-making and improve hiring outcomes.
- Partner with the wider People team to ensure recruitment activity supports succession planning, internal mobility, colleague development and organisational change initiatives.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, candidate experience and hiring manager capability across the business.
Job Boards and Toolkits
- Review application and successful hire traffic sources to ensure we’re nurturing the most effective sources.
- Keep up to date on industry trends, news and recruitment best practices.
- Own ATS improvements and updates for your business area, keeping up to date with system updates and making changes as needed, with support from the Talent Attraction Manager.
Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart
- Experienced Recruiter: You have proven experience of hiring in a large multi-site environment and are passionate about the candidate journey; from the first advert they read, to their first day in role.
- Experienced Partner: You understand partnering and how to lead the recruitment process as a centre of excellence, supporting managers with hiring decisions and recruitment strategies
- Proactive Initiative: You spot something that doesn’t look, sound or feel right, and know you are supported to act and find solutions.
- Confidence: You’re an expert in your field, and with your experience, you can comfortably win hearts and minds with the best recruitment strategy for any situation by leading with confidence.
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Our PERKS really are ‘The Works’
- 💪 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days!
- 😎 MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more!
- 🚀 Holiday – 33 days including bank holidays.
- 💃 Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days
- 🎓 Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
- 💸 Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them – for when ‘life’ happens!
- 🏬 Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works!
- 💛 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
- 🩺 Healthcare Cash Plan – To support your everyday healthcare costs
- 🥳 And loads more! – Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving.
Our Purpose
To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled.
Our Values
We are Crafty | We are Caring | We are Can-do
Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments
At The Works, we’re proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone can feel able to be themselves. Our roles are open to everyone, and we particularly welcome applications from people and communities that are under-represented in our business.
We’re open to conversations about working hours and flexible working and, where possible, we’ll try to support this. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process - or would like to discuss how you could carry out an essential part of the role - please let us know. We’ll be happy to explore what support may help: recruitment@theworks.co.uk
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