Head of Talent Acquisition

Head of Talent Acquisition

Construction Scale Up

East London/Hybrid

80100K

Wr are searching for a driven Head of Talent Acquisition to come and lead the function fromearly careers to leadership resourcing and social value at a leading construction scale up. Being responsible for ensuring the best experience for candidates from application to day one.

Success in this role will be demonstrated by efficiently effectively and creatively sourcing talent at all levels backgrounds and experiences to promote the companyas a diverse and inclusive employer. To do this this role will work with leaders andhiring managers to design and implement suitable hiring strategies for roles upskill hiring managers work on process improvements as well as conducting interviews and filteringcandidatesfor open positions whilst managing and developing the Talent team.

Responsibilities:

• Takes ownership for attraction sourcing interviewing and hiring activities in a competitive headcountconstrained industry.
• Proactively identify and address hiring needs with hiring managers and leaders to provide talent succession plans and sourcing strategies.
• Promotes the companysreputation as best place to work and ensures managers are living and communicating their EVP.
• Delivers an excellent candidate experience starting from first contact through to day one.
• Strategic lead on Apprenticeship and graduates coaching and managing the Early Careers Manager.
• Collaborate and deliver Social Value plans in conjunction with Sustainability and Project leads.
• Plans creates shapes delivers and measures the companysattraction activities recruitment activities and success while ensuring theypresentthemselfto the world appropriately.
• Creates and presents resourcing KPIs monthly. Using data evidence to shape improvements and measure strategic and operational success.
• Collaborates with the Head of Communication on employer branding leading and delivering employer branding initiatives.
• Procure and implement an ATS.
• Recruit leadership and management roles.
• Upskills hiring managers who are keen to learn but need guidance and direction so knows and imparts recruitment best practice across the business.
• Monitors and applies recruiting best practices.
• Inputs to job descriptions and candidate profiles to ensure realism and objectivity.
• Managing a recruitment budget.

Experience:

• Youll have a background in construction with experience of early careers talent management and social value.
• Youll be used to managing a diverse workload and prioritising and shaping activities to get things done in a meaningful and planful way.
• Youll be used to working with managers at all levels of the organisation knowing their time is precious and youre there to advise on key talent acquisition activities.
• Youll need tohandle people brilliantly collaborative values led.
• Be able to deliver in a challenging environment.
• Stand your ground and be resilient theyre building the business so helping managers and colleagues understand their role in making this a great place to work and our early careers programmes successful is important.
• Work fast smart and hard and have a load of fun while doing it. Youll be working with people who really care about what we do and who want to make a difference.
• Highly numerate delivery focused with strong attention to detail.
• Able to interpret data to tell a story and facilitate decision making/change.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills with an ability to deliver communication in the appropriate manner to the target audience.
• Process and detailoriented to drive improvement in how theydo things.
• The ability to work independently whilst also supporting and drawing on resources across the wider department.
• Excellent IT skills especially ATS experience
• Practical and proactive approach to problem solving.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a busy workload.
• Able to maintain confidentiality.
• Experience of apprenticeship graduate or other early talent development programmes
• The confidence and ability to represent the organisation at careers fairs