As a Recruitment and Onboarding Specialist, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process, from advertising, sourcing, and screening to interviewing and hiring candidates for various roles. You will collaborate with hiring managers to understand role requirements, building and maintaining talent pipelines to ensure a steady flow of high-calibre candidates, and engaging with candidates to provide a positive experience throughout the recruitment and onboarding process.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop a deep understanding of business areas and role requirements to identify the most effective attraction methods and sources
• Support hiring line managers with the vacancy approval process
• Create and write job adverts and social media content that attracts a diverse candidate pool
• Maintain a robust and transparent recruitment process ensuring vacancies are published, candidates are tracked and all recruitment activities are documented and compliant
• Working closely with the sourcing team to review and screen applications for suitable candidates aligned to role requirements
• Ensure there is a diverse and inclusive screening and assessment process and challenge stakeholders accordingly
• Build and maintain effective relationships with cross-functional teams, to understand their processes and how they integrate with recruitment and onboarding activities
• Liaise with 3rd party recruitment agencies to ensure they adhere to IMs values and D&I strategy
• Use budgetary and market knowledge to successfully negotiate candidate offers and salaries
• Work with the Recruitment and Onboarding Coordinators to oversee the onboarding process
• Communicate with candidates to drive exceptional candidate experience through every step of the recruitment and onboarding process
• Contribute and actively drive continuous service improvement to support our lean commitment to agile working, using external market trends and updates 
• Work closely with the Early Careers team to share candidates and to ensure future trainees’ opportunities are maximised
• Support new members of the team with any on the job training and development needs related to recruitment, act as a support network for each other and upskill your peers as and where required
• Produce regular management information and other statistical information as and when required to feed into resource planning conversations and strategy.

Essential:

• Experience of advising within a Talent Acquisition or recruitment function
• Proven experience of end-end recruitment processes
• Knowledge of equal opportunities/Employment Law in relation to recruitment
• Experience of managing vacancies and candidates through a full recruitment lifecycle 
• Proven experience of supporting volume recruitment activities; CV screening, telephone interviews and booking interviews
• Confidence in working autonomously 

Desirable:

• Understanding of Right to Work documentation
• Understanding of GDPR and storing candidate information
• Experience of recruitment within the legal sector