Senior Recruiter - 12 Months FTA - Gatwick

Location: Gatwick - 3 days on site office requirement

Contract - 12-month Fixed Term Assignment

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Our opportunity is your chance to play a crucial role in redefining the world of talent. Interested? Then we would like to talk to you!

As a Senior Recruiter, you will assist Hiring Managers in filling open positions by offering expert guidance and ensuring quality throughout the recruitment process. You will be responsible for creating and delivering excellent recruitment services and following the established service agreements. This role requires to use recruitment technology tools and manage process including completing 1st stage competency-based interviews. You’ll engage directly with the client where you will give expert advice and manage their expectations at every stage of the hiring process.

You’ll support our success by:

• Take full ownership to ensure the recruitment service is delivered in line with contractual obligations
• Lead vacancy consultation discussions in partnership with the Sourcer to agree the recruitment plans with hiring managers– this includes role requirements, sourcing strategy, DEI requirements, pay range, agreed timeframes, responsibilities of all involved, and the selection process
• Collaborate with Sourcing team on the iterative process of narrowing down high-quality candidate and jointly review the shortlist with the hiring manager
• Deliver excellent candidate experience in conjunction with the Sourcer; managing candidate satisfaction with the recruitment experience, from initial interview to start date
• Complete the initial competency-based interview with the Hiring Manager, followed by attending the second-stage technical interview
• Support the hiring manager with hiring decisions and guide them in determining an appropriate offer; lead the (often complex) offer process and negotiations to close the candidate
• Anticipate potential stakeholder issues within own area of expertise, taking action to address, and using judgement to escalate appropriately
• Proactively manage the future demand by facilitating demand planning meetings to discuss forecasts with client resourcing lead team
• Build proactive pipelining strategies and share insights with hiring managers to support strategic decision-making and execution outside of live demand. Reports regularly on progress of Talent Pool
• Outline recommended continuous improvement actions and upselling opportunities to Manager – Client Services, including quantifying impact

You’ll need to demonstrate:

• Experience of end-to-end recruitment delivery
• Understanding of attraction strategies and candidate sourcing strategies (e.g. web sourcing, networking, advertising and database searching)
• Experience of using recruitment technology
• Working knowledge of legislation affecting area of work (e.g. age discrimination, employment risks for contractors, OFCCP)
• Experience of working within a highly complex or matrixed organisation
• Exceptional Stakeholder Management and influential skills

Nice to have:

• Experience of recruitment for pharma/life science sector
• In-house/RPO/agency experience
• Fluency in French, German or a Nordic language

Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. Together, it means more insight and expertise for our clients and more exciting career paths and experiences for us.

Apart from our benefits package, you’ll also get to enjoy the flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that works best for you. We just focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other however you choose.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world’s leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [email protected] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long - term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.