Talent Acquisition Manager - 6 Month FTC

Thomas Cook

Global Talent Acquisition Manager (6 month FTC)
Location: London  
Salary: £50-55k

 

In this role, you can help complete what’s been called the “most important business turnaround since the financial crisis” by the MD of Credit Suisse. Since 2012, Thomas Cook, the iconic travel operator, has transformed its fortunes. We’ve returned to the FTSE 250, driving forward an innovative digital and ecommerce agenda that has revolutionised our performance.

 

HR has been at the heart of this meteoric turnaround. Now, as we look to drive through the second wave of change, you’ll play a vital role, sourcing the talent we need for a wide range of Transformation roles across the globe. This is a high-level strategic role, where you’ll help shape the future of our organisation.

 

We’ll look to you to develop and deliver creative sourcing strategies that attract and retain the talent we need to continue driving change. Managing the full life cycle from initiation to employment offer, you’ll develop the way we do everything from designing campaigns, to handling response and assessing candidates. We’ll give you the freedom and financial resources you need to deliver the highly-innovative, highly-successful talent acquisitions solutions you know you’re capable of creating.

Desirable experience and skills

 

This role offers huge autonomy, scope and opportunities. It also carries big responsibilities. You need to have the ideas, know-how and drive to deliver the talent we need to tight timescales, in an exciting but challenging environment where things change fast. It’s exhilarating, rewarding and career defining – but it’s not for the faint-hearted.

 

We’ll look on you as a real expert, so you need to have in-depth experience of recruiting high-quality candidates in-house at a sizeable global company – and in using next generation resourcing methodologies to do so. (For example, online sourcing using social media, candidate tracking and talent pooling should be second nature to you.) You’re also well versed in attracting high-level Head Office candidates – particularly those with e-Commerce and digital skill sets.

 

You have the ability to build the strongest relationships with everyone from suppliers to senior stakeholders and prospective candidates – and you’re also a seasoned project manager. Passionate, resilient, and capable of delivering to the tightest of deadlines, you’ve shown time and again that you leave no stone unturned to get great results.

 

The transformation of Thomas Cook continues.

 

One of the world’s leading travel companies with sales of over £9 billion and more than 20 million customers, we’ve been radically restructuring our operation over the last two years. It’s one of the most ambitious corporate transformations in Europe. Now we’re ready to embark on the next phase of the transformation: Wave 2. This will see us extending the same ‘high-tech, high-touch’ approach to our support functions, including HR. It’s all about professionalising our entire organisation in line with our new business model through creation of a single integrated HR System - and we need your skills to make it happen.

 

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

As a recruitment strategic advisor:
• Understand the organisation’s business model, operations, financial goals and competitive position to provide value adding recruiting-related advice to hiring managers and influence talent decisions. Uses commercial thinking to drive employer brand externally and brief candidates/suppliers as part of the recruitment process
• Apply specific business and labour market knowledge to enable the organisation and candidates reach optimal hiring decisions
• Increase utilisation of recruitment programs and processes to improve time to hire, reducing cost per hire and deliver commercially relevant, quality services to the business. Produce the reporting to demonstrate delivery against these key metrics.

As a recruitment pipeline manager:
• Design creative attraction strategies to encourage diversity and acquire talent with the skills, behaviours and potential to meet current and future needs
• Assess application/candidate quality, skills and fit to identify the best candidate for the position
• Maintain effective relationships with candidates and stakeholders, including vendor management, throughout the process and influence employment decisions

Skills, know-how and experience:
• Demonstrable recruitment experience within a progressive resourcing environment. Fully conversant with next generation recruitment methodologies such as online sourcing, including social media, candidate tracking and talent pooling; strong supplier management experience from exec search to contingent
• Experience in successfully recruiting Group/Head Office functions and e-Commerce/digital skill sets
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience. Effective relationship builder; comfortable, confident and credible from customer to C Suite.
• Resilient, can-do approach offering solutions combined with a proven ability to drive campaigns and projects to conclusion

Technical / professional qualifications:
• Knowledge of how to leverage technologies to locate, engage and attract prospective candidates
• Project management skills

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