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Closing Date:
10 Jun 2025

About the Role

Talent and Resourcing Advisor

6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Preston / North West – Hybrid working

Our team of inhouse Talent and Resourcing Advisors support the James Fisher Group Talent and Recruitment Agenda and practices which provides a proactive value-added service to the business. This role will include identifying, driving and managing the full talent cycle and creating a talent pipeline in line with the JFG goals. Experience of Inhouse Recruitment within Engineering and Global Recruitment experience in particular APAC Regions is required.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Managing the end-to-end recruitment process for both high volume areas and specialist roles at an Entry level to senior exec level.
  • Coaching and supporting hiring managers, helping to develop line manager recruitment capability and interview skills.
  • Liaising with hiring managers and HRBPs to understand recruitment needs for new and specialist roles.
  • Creating compelling job adverts and attracting candidates via multiple channels.
  • Supporting with CV screening, telephone interviewing and face to face interviews.
  • Support the Talent and Resourcing team with high volume recruitment and on boarding, benchmarking, monitor, manage and Develop Talent.
  • Facilitate and manage talent processes such as, identifying the best talent, building Talent Pools, head hunting, Succession Planning and Organisational Management reviews.
  • Support the Head of Talent and Resourcing with specific projects
  • Build close relationship with key business stakeholders; gaining a thorough understanding of the anticipated talent planning activities.
  • Build and manage relationships with external providers which includes maintaining and updating the PSL
  • Assistance with the provision of monthly and quarterly reporting and MI
  • Assistance with ad-hoc projects/duties may be required to support the business

Required Experience

  • Strong In-house Resourcing, Recruitment and head hunting experience
  • Global recruitment experience ideally within India / APAC regions
  • Experience using several candidate sourcing tools including job boards, CV databases and ATS.
  • Experience of behavioural / competency-based interviewing.
  • Experience of building Talent Pools and pipelines
  • Experience of working in recruitment Engineering advantageous
  • Ability to manage a high volume of tasks/roles and prioritising demanding workloads
  • Ability to influence and coach at Middle to Senior Manager level
  • Able to deal with multiple stakeholders
  • Strong IT skills (including all Microsoft Office Applications - Word, PowerPoint, Excel advanced knowledge of GDPR and IR35 and experience of using ATS in particular Eploy

Behaviours:

  • Excellent communication skills, including oral, written and presentation
  • The ability to work well on your own as well as part of a team
  • Highly influential at all levels of the business with a ‘sell’ not a ‘tell’ approach to influencing
  • Confidentiality & discretion and displays high levels of diplomacy
  • Adaptability – can adapt style to suit audience and can cope with change
  • Ability to work at a fast pace and on a number of demanding projects at one time

It is essential that you have strong recruitment and stakeholder management experience, this is a high-volume role in various genres and locations including Globally. You will ideally be available to start within 4 weeks maximum, the role is to start immediately. 

The role is a hybrid of office and home working, you will need to be able to attend one of our offices one or two days per week as required. 

James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

 

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