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Sourcing top-tier talent across the Sainsbury's Group, with a particular focus on Head Office roles at our Store Support Centre locations in London, Coventry & Manchester.

Promoted to a role within the Executive Recruitment function, covering the entirety of the Sainsbury's Group (Sainsbury's, Argos, Habitat, Nectar, Bank).

Overseeing a wide range of recruitment activity covering the whole the UK as part of a newly-formed team. Duties and responsibilities include:• Creating and analysing complex data to spot trends and patterns in recruitment activity for over 450 Sainsbury's stores within the South of the UK - a mixture of large supermarket and smaller convenience stores. This covers all roles, from general store colleagues to senior management, and everything in-between.• Direct sourcing candidates… Show more Overseeing a wide range of recruitment activity covering the whole the UK as part of a newly-formed team. Duties and responsibilities include:• Creating and analysing complex data to spot trends and patterns in recruitment activity for over 450 Sainsbury's stores within the South of the UK - a mixture of large supermarket and smaller convenience stores. This covers all roles, from general store colleagues to senior management, and everything in-between.• Direct sourcing candidates for roles that are particularly difficult to fill, using platforms such as LinkedIn and Reed to create leads, talent pool and engage suitable candidates.• Liaising with in-store management teams, and other senior stakeholders within the business, to offer expert recruitment advice to help improve candidate pipelines and the overall candidate experience.• Preparing reports and presentations to be shared with senior stakeholders. This reporting and delivery of information helps to shape the recruitment strategy of the business.• Looking at ways to continuously improve processes through process mapping and working with other departments to share best practices and ways of working.• I have been involved in a number of high profile projects whilst working in this role, including working on a project to improve organic traffic flow to Sainsbury's careers website through Search Engine Optimisation with an external partner. This also involved me creating content used on the Sainsbury’s careers website and to be shared on external platforms such as LinkedIn.• End to end recruitment for Store Manager roles, involving conducting briefing calls with senior stakeholders, providing candidate feedback and talent pooling/sourcing where required. Show less

Providing coaching and training to colleagues, covering a department of 60+ colleagues in one of the UK’s largest internal retail recruitment operations. Duties included:• Upskilling current staff members on new and updated processes, helping to facilitate their integration into different teams within the HR Services function.• Welcoming new starters into the business and providing full training, and monitoring them throughout their probationary period, enabling them to succeed in… Show more Providing coaching and training to colleagues, covering a department of 60+ colleagues in one of the UK’s largest internal retail recruitment operations. Duties included:• Upskilling current staff members on new and updated processes, helping to facilitate their integration into different teams within the HR Services function.• Welcoming new starters into the business and providing full training, and monitoring them throughout their probationary period, enabling them to succeed in their roles.• Designing and amending processes and training materials used for new and existing colleagues to reflect the constant evolution of the various job roles within HR services.• Identifying performance-related concerns through data analysis and live quality control measures, and providing feedback and coaching to colleagues to help maintain and improve performance where necessary.• Communicating with senior stakeholders to analyse processes and look at more 'lean' ways of working through continuous improvement. Also communicating changes to processes to the wider business.• Dealing with and resolving a varying degree of complaints and queries from candidates and senior stakeholders. Show less

Helping to source managers for Sainsbury's retail stores as part of this newly formed team - particularly those struggling to recruit in order to reduce agency expenditure. Here, my duties included:• Managing recruitment process by creating advertisements for management roles to be used on platforms such as LinkedIn and the Sainsbury’s careers website.• Sourcing candidates through methods such as LinkedIn and Reed, reviewing candidate suitability, conducting screening calls to… Show more Helping to source managers for Sainsbury's retail stores as part of this newly formed team - particularly those struggling to recruit in order to reduce agency expenditure. Here, my duties included:• Managing recruitment process by creating advertisements for management roles to be used on platforms such as LinkedIn and the Sainsbury’s careers website.• Sourcing candidates through methods such as LinkedIn and Reed, reviewing candidate suitability, conducting screening calls to determine suitability for roles. This also involved organising assessments and maintaining contact with hiring managers, shortlisting candidates.• Ensuring that the experience of all candidates is a great one, from the first point of contact to their eventual recruitment into the company, as well as maintaining contact with candidates in the talent pool.• Collating, analysing and presenting key data to stakeholders, helping to inform decisions around recruitment processes.• Providing training and coaching to new team members, as well as designing new process and continuously improving existing ones. Show less

End to end recruitment of candidates seeking employment across 1,300+ retail stores, store support centres and depots. This covered all levels, from store colleagues to senior management roles. My duties and responsibilities included:• Vacancy creation and advertisement - Communicating with senior stakeholders and providing expert advice on recruitment processes.• Conducting competency-based telephone assessments to screen applicants; making decisions regarding interview outcomes… Show more End to end recruitment of candidates seeking employment across 1,300+ retail stores, store support centres and depots. This covered all levels, from store colleagues to senior management roles. My duties and responsibilities included:• Vacancy creation and advertisement - Communicating with senior stakeholders and providing expert advice on recruitment processes.• Conducting competency-based telephone assessments to screen applicants; making decisions regarding interview outcomes and arranging in-store assessments with hiring managers.• Processing interview outcomes - Providing feedback to unsuccessful candidates and processing contracts for successful candidates.• Creating and sharing reports with managers through proficient use of Microsoft Excel and Oracle recruitment systems to collate and analyse data. Show less