In-House Recruiter

Salary: c.40-42K plus benefits (see below for benefits info)

Location: Winchester  (we offer hybrid working for this position) with travel to the London office as required.

Do you enjoy being part of a busy, fast-paced recruitment team that sits within a highly respected, supportive and collaborative wider HR department? If the answer is “Yes”, then keep reading! 

This is a “hands on” recruitment position, working alongside our dedicated and talented in-house recruitment team and wider HR team, and our colleagues in Early Careers recruitment and Training & Development. You will work across both our core and diversified business lines, and by working with Team Leaders, Managers and Partners, you will support and advise them throughout the recruitment lifecycle, ensuring a robust but agile process that successfully attracts and delivers high calibre talent to complement our already highly respected teams. You will be an active contributor to recruitment focused projects, supporting the Senior In-House recruiter with innovating new people attraction ideas, and embracing new technologies which will help evolve our recruitment practices and processes. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Owning the end-to-end recruitment process across your designated internal client groups, from pipeline to the point of offer and contract negotiation 
• Advising hiring managers on market trends and insights to help guide and steer resourcing approaches and promote a “recruitment matters” philosophy across the business 
• Active contributor and influencer in the recruitment process, providing best practice advice to hiring managers, advising on appropriate selection methods, interviews, interview standards and influencing decisions 
• Working closely with the wider HR team and hiring managers/People Leaders at all levels, including senior stakeholders, to ensure a detailed understanding of resourcing needs
• Maintenance of  the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for all roles to ensure accurate reporting  
• Updating and/or building a comprehensive suite of recruitment and assessment tools and evolve as and when required 
• Acting as an employer brand ambassador for LCP, attracting a diverse candidate range and delivering a first-class candidate experience at all stages of the recruitment process 
• Building knowledge of the competitor market, identifying, and engaging with exceptional talent in the marketplace and developing relationships within the industry to ensure that you are aware of competitor trends/conditions of service/benefits/salaries to ensure that LCP always remain competitive 
• Pro-actively source talent for a selection of vacancies using a range of channels with a focus on direct recruitment over time in line with the recruitment strategy, reducing agency spend and promoting and supporting initiatives to encourage staff to use our internal employee referral programme 
• Building and maintaining excellent relationships with partner recruitment agencies, negotiate preferential terms and evolve the Preferred Supplier List (PSL) as and when required 
• Working with T&D (Training & Development) to support the delivery of relevant training courses for the business with the aim of strengthening the skill set of those involved in recruitment 
• Building and maintaining excellent relationships with partner recruitment agencies, negotiate preferential terms and evolve the Preferred Supplier List (PSL) as and when required 
• Supporting International recruitment as and when needed, including processes for recruiting candidates requiring Skilled Worker visa’s who may or may not be already located in the UK 

 What skills, qualities and experience are we looking for? 

• A passionate, resourceful recruitment in-house recruitment/RPO professional, with the capability to support recruitment across other business lines as needed, with a positive, a can-do client service approach 
• Professional services (or similar) recruitment experience highly desirable
• Demonstrable experience of applying best practice to end to end resourcing from candidate attraction to selection, with the ability to think differently when traditional routes are not working 
• An excellent track record in the use of direct sourcing methods 
• Experience using a range of recruitment technologies including applicant tracking systems 
• Knowledge of HR policies and procedures surrounding recruitment along with knowledge of recruitment legislation including the Right to Work and the Equality Act 
• Enthusiastic and collaborative team player with a strong drive and ambition to create a positive work environment and to deliver results 
• A commercial and forward-thinking approach as to what excellence in recruitment and onboarding looks like 
• A keen interest in employer branding and an insatiable appetite to promote our business via appropriate external mediums 
• Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with the gravitas to work with, and alongside, a broad range of people 
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, being able to generate a quality pipeline of candidates under tight time constraints
• Excellent attention to detail and able to work independently
• The ability to adapt your style and think on your feet to suit the audience
• Proactive with a drive to deliver results
• Comprehensive Word and Excel knowledge 

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor page to see why our people love being here!  As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you: 

• Hybrid working (varies by role and department)
• professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family: 

• Life assurance (6 x salary)
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health: 

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth: 

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others: 

• Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, we encourage you to get in touch with Karina Lee, Angie Lewis or Julie Newall via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.