Early Careers Recruitment Partner – Boots Opticians
Contract: Fixed Term until Sept 2025
Location: Nottingham
Recruiter: Samantha Bramhall
As an Early Careers Recruitment Partner you will play a pivotal role in attracting and retaining talented students into Boots Opticians. Based onsite at our Nottingham Support Office, this role will report into the Recruitment Manager for Healthcare. If you are passionate about building relationships, and have a drive to make a difference in Optometry students' lives, this is the perfect opportunity for you. You will be given the autonomy to truly collaborate with your stakeholders and external partners to make a real difference.
Key Responsibilities
- Working in partnership with the key stakeholders including, Store Leaders, Area Managers, and HR Partners to understand the demand for current and future resource requirements (both internal and external) and creating recruitment plans to source great people for the business. This will require a thorough understanding of the vision, challenges and changes to the Boots Opticians business and the world of Optometry students.
- Establish partnerships with universities to connect with Optometry students and develop our brand in the student world.
- Ensuring robust talent pipelines that will satisfy the future business strategy. Using your expertise of the market for talent to shape and work with recruitment marketing team to generate and deliver relevant attraction campaigns and develop short and long term plans
- Maintaining a mind-set of continuous improvement where essential projects are highlighted and delivered to the highest standard to enhance the recruitment process and candidate journey
- Acting as a brand ambassador across all social media channels
- Providing regular market insights via research, events and networking to ensure the recruitment team and hiring managers are up to date on economic trends, new technology and competitor analysis.
- Taking a customer led approach in all recruitment activity, ensuring that as a business we give an exceptional experience to all of our candidates at each stage of the recruitment process. This will involve preparing candidates for interview, giving and receiving feedback and negotiating successful offers .
What you'll need to have
- Knowledge of recruitment attraction strategies, including social media and campaign management. You can demonstrate experience of using these techniques to deliver great talent pipeline strategies and keep warm methods
- Experience in a in-house or agency recruitment team delivering full life-cycle recruitment across a variety of disciplines
- Understanding of the student world and graduate recruitment would be advantageous
- Work in partnership with hiring managers and stakeholders to develop and build strong working relationships. You'll be hands-on in setting timescales and proactively managing the recruitment lifecycle to achieve SLAs
- Experience of interviewing and selection design
- Experience in the use of social media in recruitment and an awareness of the benefits that the digital world brings in terms of recruitment and a desire to explore this arena to support the recruitment strategy
- Customer centric approach in all recruitment activity
Our benefits
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.
Why Boots Opticians
At Boots Opticians, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. Join our team and let's see what's possible when we change for the better.
What's next
If your application is successful, our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have. If you have not been successful on this occasion you will be notified by email.
We are always open to discussing possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you, including job share and reduced hours. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
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