Talent Acquisition Specialist, 6 Month FTC

About the role

The role of the Talent Acquisition Specialist is to attract, identify and recruit roles which are critical to deliver business objectives within the MSAS, Medical and Security Assistance Services business line.
You will work directly with HR teams and Hiring Managers as well as business leaders to drive end to end recruitment activity.

Key responsibilities

•    Partner with the business to build effective sourcing, assessment and closing approaches with an ability to manage expectations.
•    Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and ongoing relationship management.
•    Conduct briefing calls with hiring managers and advise on sourcing strategy and recruitment process and timelines.
•    Advertise roles and manage candidate responses, filtering CVs against the selected criteria for the role. 
•    Leverage online recruiting resources, LinkedIn and in-house ATS to identify and recruit the very best candidates. 
•    Conduct telephone interviews to ascertain suitability and provide a shortlist of qualified applicants within the agreed timescales.
•    Manage the interview process and support with the planning of assessments as appropriate. Interview candidates selected with the hiring managers using competency based interviewing methodologies. 
•    Provide detailed and constructive feedback to both internal and external candidates throughout the process.
•    Work closely with HR team and managers to ensure we are reaching required FTE requirements and identify any possible future recruitment needs or requirements.
•    Manage the scheduling and logistics of all interviews between candidates and hiring managers.
•    Manage the offer, negotiation, closing process including required administrative components.
•    Maintain accurate documentation on all candidates to ensure a robust and thorough audit trail. 
•    Track KPI and SLA information as required for reporting purposes.
•    Measure candidate experience and identify areas for continuous improvement.
•    Work with external suppliers on certain roles in line with budgetary requirements and with prior consent from the HR Director.
•    Establish and develop effective working relationships with external suppliers, ensuring they understand the business need, and manage their expectations in the recruitment process.
•    Keep track of the methods used to recruit any employees, keeping copies of any advertising undertaken, as well as copies of any correspondence with recruitment agencies or head-hunters.
•    Promote International SOS as an employer of choice by attending external events as required and represent the company in events such as career fairs; open days as well as promoting vacancies on social media platforms.
•    Participate in recruitment projects.
•    Any other duties reasonably requested.

About you

•    Understanding of the 360-recruitment cycle.
•    Excellent time management and organisational skills.
•    Ability to manage multiple activities often with conflicting priorities. 
•    Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately. 
•    Excellent stakeholder management skills. 
•    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 
•    Ability to work autonomously.
•    Customer focused and results oriented.
•    Strong IT skills including MS Office and databases.
•    Proven recruitment experience: in-house experience is essential; agency experience is desirable.
•    Experience of working with high volume of vacancies across multiple levels.
•    Experience of database searches such as LinkedIn/CV searching.
•    Experience of working with ATS.
•    Previous experience of competency based interviewing techniques.
•    Educated to degree level or equivalent
•    Psychometric assessments such as SHL level A&B is desired
•    Excellent written and spoken English

Additional Information

•    Some travel may be required.
•    Working hours Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
•    Hybrid working model, 3 days in the office / 2 days working from home