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Contingent Recruitment Specialist; 12 month contract; based in Preston; 37 hours a week; £17.32 per hour

As a Recruitment Specialist, reporting to the Recruitment Business Partner, you will work collaboratively within functional and operational teams across a leading aerospace client supporting end-to-end recruitment activity in a fast paced, complex manufacturing environment.
This role will provide you with great exposure across the business with the opportunity to build upon your knowledge, becoming a business area subject matter expert.
The Recruitment Specialist will engage hiring managers in a consultative capacity to ensure that they have the right people, in the right place, at the right time. The role holder will take ownership and accountability to ensure the team delivers resource plans across the sectors, from initial sourcing of CV’s right through to first day readiness.
The role holder will be a self-starter, highly motivated and able to act independently with minimal supervision to provide advice and guidance based on recruitment best practice, market conditions, and being a subject matter expert to facilitate the overall recruitment process. This is an exciting time to join the team as it develops and the role may bring opportunities to collaborate with other shared services teams to further enhance your skills and career.

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

  • Working with hiring managers from initial vacancy consultation until first day readiness, setting and managing expectations and offering a world class end to end recruitment service
  • Managing relationships with the agencies on the preferred suppliers list and ensure they fully support the contingent recruitment campaigns
  • Working as part of a team to ensure KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved
  • Providing advice and guidance based on recruitment best practice, market conditions, and being a subject matter expert to facilitate the overall recruitment process
  • Providing regular and timely communications, ensuring candidates and hiring managers are efficiently engaged and supported throughout the recruitment cycle
  • Ability to manage high volume and a variety of vacancies across a specific business area

    Knowledge:
  • Knowledge of recruitment processes is essential with knowledge of contingent recruitment highly desirable
  • Confidence and ability to challenge and influence at all levels internally and externally
  • Experience of recruiting volume campaigns as well as unique roles and the variances in between
  • Experience of delivering to and working with service level agreements and service definitions.
  • Ability to understand and champion the importance of data integrity, timely and accurate reporting and uses this information to run efficient processes
  • Ability to resolve multiple highly complex operational issues
  • Excellent IT skills, in particular experienced in using applicant tracking systems

    Skills;
  • Stakeholder management (at all levels)
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Takes a strong service-orientated approach that ensures efficient and effective service to the business
  • Intermediate IT skills, in particular MS Word and MS Excel and knowledge of MS Access
  • Organised, motivated and detail conscious
  • Demonstrable team working characteristics
  • Committed to learning and continuous improvement
  • Ability to stakeholder manage internally within BOS and within the wider businesses and functions
  • Good presentation, communication, engagement and influencing skills

    Qualifications:
  • GCSEs or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A-C
  • We are looking for someone with a recruitment background i.e. Agency experience, internal recruiter etc

  • We are a large team of over 35 compromising a mixture of Recruitment Specialists, Recruitment Operations Professionals and Recruitment Business Partners situated between various UK sites
  • This role is based at Channel Way Preston and is a hybrid working role. This role has a minimum requirement of 2-3 days per week in the office however, the candidate will need to be flexible and able to attend site if they are requested to

    Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

    Recruitment; In house Recruitment; Vacancies; Recruiter; Talent Pool; Talent Management; Planning; On boarding; Interviewing; Matching; Temporary Recruitment; Contract Recruitment; Outsourcing; Candidates; Assessing; Screening; Staffing; Employment; Sourcing; Recruiting; Client Liaison; Candidate Assessment; Recruitment Lifecycle; Resourcing Specialist; Talent Acquisition
    Additional Benefits
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