The Role

Are you looking to move into an internal recruitment role?

As Talent Acquisition Advisor you will be responsible for partnering with stakeholders across the school to hire all Level 2 roles, ensuring we attract quality, fit for purpose permanent and contract talent. You will be responsible for managing the talent acquisition journey including attraction, sourcing, and selection strategies, through to offer, ensuring a positive experience for candidates and hiring managers. You will also be responsible for working with hiring managers across the school who need temporary agency workers. This will require you to build relationships with our current suppliers, ensuring value for money and compliance and changing them where necessary. You will provide data on temporary numbers, spend and suppliers regularly.

This role is available for on a fixed term contract to May 2024.

Main Responsibilities

• Be responsible for all Level 2 permanent and fixed term recruitment across the school. Partnering with Hiring Managers to advise on appropriate selection methods.
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders across a range of internal departments to gain knowledge of their business areas and to offer talent acquisition expertise and advice.
• Conduct Engagement Meetings with line managers to discuss their talent needs. and ensure a clear and detailed process for sourcing and selecting candidates
• Being an active member of interview panels, taking a proactive approach to questioning and discussing feedback.
• Utilise direct sourcing skills to source and attract high quality, diverse talent for the school using a range of tools and innovative methods
• Maintain agency relationships where suitable e.g., niche, or hard to fill roles
• Utilise market knowledge to advise hiring managers on sourcing strategies
• Liaise with both external and internal candidates of all levels ensuring a smooth, seamless and customer focused candidate experience always
• Collaborate with the People Operations team to ensure a smooth onboarding handover
• Manage all temporary agency staffing requests across the school. Assisting hiring managers through the approval process, briefings and engaging with agencies.
• Managing agency relationships and negotiating competitive terms, ensuring we have agency partners for each type of role and sourcing new agencies where needed.

Who we are looking for

• Experience working within an in-house Talent Acquisition function in a customer focused environment
• Experience of hiring for permanent and contract / temporary roles
• Experience of using applicant tracking systems to extract, analyse and report on data.
• Proven ability to successfully utilise a range of direct sourcing methods for both Permanent and Contract vacancies
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong relationship skills, with the ability to partner, coach and influence hiring managers
• Excellent organisational skills and meticulous attention to detail

Why London Business School

London Business School; a global and vibrant business community based in two of the world’s most dynamic cities, London and Dubai. It’s where extraordinary minds and diverse perspectives connect, to have a profound impact on the way the world does business and the way business impacts the world. We offer best in class hybrid learning to our students and participants, whilst creating a flexible, supportive and dynamic working environment for our people to excel in, whatever their location. 

What you can expect from us

• Generous annual leave of 27 days plus extra between Christmas and New Year
• Generous pension package, 21.4% employer contribution (in return for employee enrolment and contribution)
• Free onsite gym and swimming pool
• Amazing range of professional development to support your career path
• Enhanced cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing offering to support your physical, mental and financial health
• Up to 5 days volunteering leave or parent /carer emergency leave

All enjoyed in a Smart (hybrid) Working environment so we’re looking forward to discussing how, where and when you might work best to deliver in your new role.

Our commitment to driving inclusion and belonging 

We are a globally reaching institution, committed to creating tangible and sustainable change in driving inclusion & belonging within our School, education and society at large.  We are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone in our community feels they belong and thrive. This is a key school priority, and we want everyone who joins LBS to feel respected, welcomed, and heard. 

Please note we start screening CVs and interviewing candidates from the start of a campaign. A successful candidate could progress to offer before the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in any roles.

This role closes on Monday 26th June 2023

London Business School