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Talent Acquisition Business Partner – International

Employer
WHSmith
Location
Houndsditch
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
28 Aug 2022

Job Details

Job Description

 

Talent Acquisition Business Partner – International
20 Hours per week, Part-time role
Home-based with some travel to our London Head office

 

Scope of the role
To partner with key stakeholders within our International teams and our People team to provide a best in class end to end talent acquisition experience so that we hire the right people for the international business to enable growth across our current locations: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore and Spain plus any future locations we move into! You will be accountable for sourcing, attracting and onboarding exceptional and diverse talent for all levels with the flexibility to hire across both management and non-management roles.
You will research and use a variety of approaches, relevant to each country, including direct sourcing, defined distribution channels and social media that are aligned with the company brand, ensuring an effective internal/external pipeline to meet current and future business needs. You will be curious to understand and research recruitment nuances in all the countries we operate in.
 

Key Accountabilities

  • Develop creative and cost-effective plans for sourcing and attracting candidates in a competitive talent market managing end to end interview processes, offer management and onboarding
  • Use external talent data and insight to drive hiring conversations with key stakeholders
  • Business Partner and advise hiring managers/local HR departments on best practise recruitment strategies that support the goals and direction of the business including current need and future projects
  • Identify and source temp agencies to be part of our PSL so that when needed we have relationships in place to support with tough to fill locations
  • Produce and analysis daily/weekly reporting for key business stakeholders to track the progress of all campaigns against the targets set
  • Co-ordinating and running assessment days and interviews for campaigns where required
  • Work directly with our creative agency to design and execute campaigns and drive activity, managing the end to end process to ensure we deliver against the targets
  • Carry out training and upskilling for all hiring managers to ensure that they deliver an amazing candidate experience
  • Have a strong understanding and interest in local cultures to help build awareness and excitement of the WHSmith brand  
  • Carry out competitor research and benchmarking to ensure that we remain competitive in each marketplace

 

Skills & Experience

  • Previous experience of running large scale, volume recruitment campaigns in either a retail, hospitality or FMCG business ideally with some international market experience
  • Excellent stakeholder management with a high touch, collaborative, and communicative approach and the confidence to challenge thinking
  • Able to think logically and creatively to find the best way to solve problems
  • Proactive and able to prioritise to deliver in a fast-paced, high workload environment
  • Experience across the entire talent acquisition process, from brief to offer and onboarding
  • Knowledge and experience in developing best practice recruitment tools and utilising linked in and social media to source talent and drive the employer brand
  • Other European languages would be advantageous
  • Comfortable with International travel – infrequent

 

Team
From Employee Relations and Talent & Development, to Payroll & Reward and Talent Acquisition. You’ll find our people team right at the heart of WHSmith.  These specialists, plus our dedicated generalist People team support the entire Group in looking after our 14,000+ employees. Because life moves so fast in our business, our people team has to move quickly too. Our people have to be on the ball and ready to make big decisions, fast. At WHSmith, HR is all about finding innovative, commercial solutions and putting them into action.

Company

WHSmith started in 1792 with a small news vendor in Little Grosvenor Street, London, followed by the opening of our first bookstall in Euston Station in 1848. We quickly established ourselves as the favoured newsagent, stationers and bookseller opening stores across the UK. From this point on, there has been no looking back.

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