UK Talent Acquisition Manager

UK Talent Acquisition Manager

Function: People

Location: Edinburgh or London with hybrid working and UK Travel

Salary: Circa £68,000 depending on experience plus 15% of salary flexible benefits (can be taken as cash), and full benefits listed below.

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 9th July 2024

We’re on an exciting journey to redefine our Talent Acquisition! Join us as our UK Talent Acquisition Manager and help transform how we find exceptional talent. In this leadership role, you'll design and implement innovative sourcing and recruitment strategies while managing a small team of TA Partners.

You'll also focus on sourcing and recruiting for senior roles within the business. Additionally, you'll actively bring the outside in by building strategic partnerships, championing diversity, and driving inclusion in all our hiring practices.

A bit about the role accountabilities:

• Develop Recruitment & Selection framework: Use data-driven insights to assess and redesign current recruitment processes, frameworks, and practices for ongoing improvement in Talent Acquisition strategies.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand staffing needs and provide strategic recruitment guidance. Be ready to challenge our leaders on what great talent looks like!
• Talent Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a robust senior talent pipeline through proactive sourcing, networking, and engaging with potential candidates.
• Diversity and External Partnerships: Champion diversity and inclusion in all hiring practices and establish strong external partnerships to enhance our recruitment efforts and broaden our talent pool.
• Team Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and manage a small team of Talent Acquisition Partners, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.

Who we’re looking for:

Experience:

• Proven track record in designing and implementing successful sourcing & recruitment strategies
• Experience in a range of recruiting methodologies, from mass recruitment, headhunting, executive search, early careers, commercial, operational, and technical recruitment.

Skills:

• Big picture thinker with the ability to strategize, connect the dots, anticipate and innovate
• Aptitude for utilizing data and analytics to assess recruitment metrics and optimize processes
• Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills

Leadership traits:

• Customer love – bringing the voice of customers into everything we do and always looking for better ways to serve our customers
• Agility – exploring the world around & continually learning, envisioning the future, and a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo
• Passion for high performance

Our ways of working

Our office sites operate a hybrid model. You’ll spend Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a day of your choice in the office and can work from home on two days, although but you’re more than welcome to come and work from the office on those days too. This role also requires a few travels per year to our UK Brewery and Cider sites (Manchester, Tadcaster and Hereford)

Our benefits and rewards

• Annual bonus
• Flexible Benefits Allowance of 15% of your annual salary that can be taken as cash
• Company-funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double-matched pension (up to 10%)
• 35 days holiday (holiday trading available)
• Retail discounts
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers (low and no alcohol options available)
• Unique learning and development opportunities

…And much more! Check out our Why Join Us page if you’d like more information.

You’ll also get the opportunity to join our colleague networks, in which people from across the business connect to help champion diversity, equity and inclusion, ensuring we’re continuing to give people a voice.

The application

If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay! Please note that VISA sponsorship is not offered for this role.

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at recruitment@heineken.co.uk.

You might feel that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, and that’s okay – we all need the opportunity to develop and untap our full potential. If this advert’s piqued your interest, we’d encourage you to submit an application rather than ruling yourself out. You never know – you may be exactly what we’re looking for!

Who we are

We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.

It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.

When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.

If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.

There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us, and brew a better career.