Whitbread is going through a real step-change in their resourcing approach. We’ve taken the strategic view to build out a brand-new team to support hourly paid hiring for team members across our 1,200...

Whitbread is going through a real step-change in their resourcing approach. We’ve taken the strategic view to build out a brand-new team to support hourly paid hiring for team members across our 1,200 sites.

If you fancy a greenfield challenge, this is the role for you! Would you like to be a key contributor to the hiring of circa 19,000 roles per year? Have you got experience of sourcing and attracting talent within high volume roles? Is great candidate experience at the forefront of your strategy? If yes, then we’d love to hear from you!

About the role:

Responsible for the external attraction of talent to hourly paid roles across Premier Inn and Restaurants, ensuring sufficient levels of talent to fill all roles quickly including hard-to-fill job families (Chefs, Team Leaders) and locations (eg affluent towns, Central London).

You will also contribute to the creation and maintenance of localised sourcing strategies for niche roles and geographies, in line with local market conditions. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with the local Operational leadership team and the hiring forecast to plan out annual activity needed for hiring and forecasted volumes of talent required throughout seasonal peaks for area.
• Plan attraction activity, including local market activity as well as central eg where are there opportunities to maximise local partnerships to drive pipelines, as well as use of central direct sourcing tools and techniques.
• Provide proactive supply of qualified talent in line with the hiring forecast.
• Delivery of reactive sourcing processes for all vacancies identified as hard-to-fill.
• Utilising direct sourcing techniques eg 1click apply apps, specialist job boards, CV database mining, head-hunting and market mapping local competitors, social media activity etc.
• Business partner with hiring managers to complete hiring health check; what have they done so far, what is still to be done, what central support do they need?

 We’re open to you:

• Proven experience in resourcing delivery, including delivery of performance improvements.
• Experience in hospitality or retail recruitment would be a distinct advantage
• Experience in high-volume recruitment.
• Ability to use data to influence hiring decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to influence and connect with a diverse range of people.