HR & Recruitment Specialist

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Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, GBR
In-Office
Food
The Role

We are looking for an HR and Recruitment Specialist to temporarily support our Flavors Europe business unit and European recruitment team from our European Flavors' headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK. You will be responsible for providing admin. HR support in all areas of the employee lifecycle and will be involved in onboarding, offboarding and recruitment. This is a temporary role for maternity cover for up to 12 months from beginning of June 2026.


What you will do:

  • Support the recruitment process by posting positions, screening candidates, scheduling interviews, and preparing employment offers
  • Coordinate onboarding and off-boarding activities, new hire orientation processes, issuing employment offers, processing appropriate forms and providing employee benefit information and company policies and procedures with new hires
  • Exercise high level of confidentiality and discretion
  • Maintain Oracle-based HRIS by processing employee data changes and auditing data to ensure data integrity and compliance with company policies and legislation
  • Undertake HR administration tasks and updating employee files, HRIS and informing payroll for new hires, terminations, changes and absences

What you will bring:

  • Excellent administration skills.
  • Knowledge of HR processes and procedures.
  • Ability to confidently work in the database.
  • Good organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with employees across all levels

What you will get:

  • The opportunity to collaborate with your colleagues, onsite 5 days per week.
  • An excellent salary, benefit offering and development opportunities.
  • A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond.
  • The opportunity to learn HR disciplines in a busy HR environment.

About Sensient:

Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.

About Sensient Flavors:

Sensient Flavors offers innovative, global taste solutions and specialized flavor delivery systems that help bring life to your food and beverage products. Our leading-edge technologies reflect our core philosophies to be dynamic and innovative and to add value to your applications.

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Sensient Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sensient Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Sensient Technologies.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Fair pay is frequently highlighted as aligning well with job responsibilities, and base compensation is often framed as competitive for the industry. The overall package is commonly characterized as good when considering pay together with benefits.
  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance are consistently described as comprehensive, with day-one eligibility and strong employer premium cost-sharing noted for U.S. salaried employees. Low premiums are repeatedly emphasized as a differentiator in the health offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is reinforced by a 401(k) match with immediate vesting and the presence of additional retirement vehicles such as an ESOP, with certain locations also referencing pension arrangements. This stack is presented as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.

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3,065 Employees

What We Do

We Bring Life to Products. Our name communicates what we do: Enhance SENSory experiences through specialized ingredIENTs, delivered through proprietary TECHNOLOGIES. Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, essential oils and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, colors, natural ingredients, and extracts. The Company’s customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world’s best-known brands. Sensient has some 75 operational sites in 35 countries and customers in more than 150 countries worldwide. Learn more about how Sensient can help you discover your next color, flavor and specialty solutions at www.sensient.com

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