Talent Acquisition Partner – Technology - 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving.  And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.  These include but are not limited to:

• Colleague bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here 
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

As we continue to grow our Technology business at a rapid rate we’re looking for driven and creative tech recruitment professionals to join us to help drive this growth. If you thrive on hunting for technology talent in a competitive market and want to work as part of an expert team in a high growth, inclusive environment with access to the latest recruitment technologies then this could be the role for you.

Here in the Tesco Talent Acquisition team, we play a significant role in the development and success of our business - our world is fast paced and demanding, but hugely rewarding.  We are also one of the largest in-house recruitment teams in the UK, so if you love recruitment and are passionate about your career, you will have plenty of opportunity to develop and progress here.

We are a hybrid working team blending office and remote working. Our Welwyn Garden City office is where we connect, collaborate and innovate in-person. Talk to us about how this can work for you.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Aaron Fallace

You will be responsible for

• Proactively sourcing and hiring great talent for Tesco Technology, this may be for a specific technology vertical or could be across multiple verticals as the business needs.
• Using social and professional media platforms to attract passive candidates, building talent pools and candidate pipelines to service future hiring needs of the business.
• Gathering and sharing candidate and market data and insights to influence improvements such as changes to salary bands, improvements to processes etc.
• Gathering leads and promoting our Employer Brand through networking, Social Media, events and other means
• Successfully delivering large scale recruitment activity projects within fast-paced timeframes
• Always Championing the candidate experience and Diversity and Inclusion
• Building excellent relationships with our hiring manager community, to fully understand their requirements, keep them up to date on progress and provide a first-class end to end service.

You will need

• Excellent proactive candidate sourcing and talent pooling skills, evidenced by strong results in placing directly sourced candidates into Technology roles.
• Niche talent “mining” skills, the ability to use boolean and x-ray search strings to find prospective candidates in less than obvious places.
• Strong expertise in the 360-recruitment delivery cycle, with the ability to influence and consult at all stages of the process
• Strong stakeholder management skills, ensuring all candidates and hiring managers are kept well informed of project progress.
• Experience using cloud based ATS systems and use the systems to deliver insight and analytics to the business.
• In house experience is advantageous, however a passionate recruiter within the agency environment who demonstrates pro-activity to move in house would also be considered.

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.