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The Role

Would you like to deliver a best-in-class recruitment service as part of our Contingent hiring team? We currently have a vacancy for a Recruitment Specialist at our site in Preston.

As a Recruitment Specialist, reporting to the Recruitment Business Partner, you will work collaboratively within functional and operational teams across BAE Systems Plc supporting end-to-end recruitment activity in a fast paced, complex manufacturing environment. You will engage with hiring managers in a consultative capacity to ensure that they have the right people, in the right place, at the right time.

This role will provide you with great exposure across the business with the opportunity to build upon your knowledge, becoming a business area subject matter expert. This is an exciting time to join as the team develops and undergoes an element of transformation. Progression and career development is supported, and the role may bring opportunities to collaborate with other shared services teams to further enhance your skills and career.

Role Responsibilities:

Not limited to...

Working with hiring managers from initial vacancy consultation until first day readiness, setting and managing expectations and offering a world class end to end recruitment service.
Managing relationships with the agencies on the preferred suppliers list and ensure they fully support the contingent recruitment campaigns.

Working as part of a team to ensure KPI's and SLA's are achieved.

Providing advice and guidance based on recruitment best practice, market conditions, and being a subject matter expert to facilitate the overall recruitment process.
Providing regular and timely communications, ensuring candidates and hiring managers are efficiently engaged and supported throughout the recruitment cycle.
Ability to manage high volume and a variety of vacancies across a specific business area.

What BAE Systems are looking for, from you:

Knowledge of recruitment processes is essential with knowledge of contingent recruitment highly desirable

Confidence and ability to challenge and influence at all levels internally and externally

Experience of recruiting volume campaigns as well as unique roles and the variances in between

Experience of delivering to and working with service level agreements and service definitions.

Ability to understand and champion the importance of data integrity, timely and accurate reporting and uses this information to run efficient processes

Ability to resolve multiple highly complex operational issues

Excellent IT skills, in particular experienced in using applicant tracking systems
Stakeholder management (at all levels)
Intermediate IT skills, in particular MS Word and MS Excel and knowledge of MS Access
Organised, motivated and detail conscious
Demonstrable team working characteristics
Ability to stakeholder manage internally within BOS and within the wider businesses and functions
GCSEs or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A-C)

Security Requirements: BPSS

This role requires you to obtain a basic disclosure along with employment reference checks before starting.

The Umbrella rate quoted above is the Gross Umbrella rate (i.e. the rate we pay to the Umbrella Company inclusive of ALL employment costs). Please note, the rate paid by the Umbrella will be less, as will a Limited Deemed rate or Agency PAYE rate. Please get in touch to discuss the rates via these different payment vehicles