Talent and Resourcing Advisor 6 Month FTC

Preston, England, United Kingdom

5/28/2025

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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