Talent Acquisition Specialist

Job TitleTalent Acquisition Specialist
LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent
Hours Per Week37.5
Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

CategoryHR Generalists
Closing Date16 April 2025

Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you'll love.”

• Hybrid and flexible working, must be able to commit to 3 days a week in a Leeds Office – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point. Flexible working meaning you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs.
• Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future.
• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.

“Find your role”

We are committed to changing how we do things and restless to improve and stay relevant in an ever-changing job market.

Therefore, this role will be varied, fun and feel relentless at times. It requires someone who is as good at saying no as they are yes to stakeholders and thrive being the recruitment expert.

We will provide you with a platform for continuous development but will expect you to use that knowledge and make us better. You will be at the crux of lots of work and activity at Asda, here are four key things you will be doing:

Using smart and innovative sourcing techniques and tools to ensure you stay above the curve when it comes to sourcing candidates. You will find new ways of working and be an early adopter of recruitment technology and applications. It's second nature to you.

You will use data and insights to provide Asda with talent acquisition solutions for candidate identification and engagement. However, you will go beyond just using data and become a data-driven storyteller to ensure stakeholders buy into your work both rationally and emotionally.

You will transform job adverts, promoting what is challenging, and best about working at Asda across numerous social channels. However, whilst you will be meticulous with advert creation you will equally be as focused on being an expert on where the right places are to post them for maximum effect.

You will quickly become an expert on the talent landscape, mapping out and pipelining talent across the UK for our Retail space. Proactively headhunting candidates to support in ensuring we are bring the very best talent into our business to lead to our stores.

Ensuring Talent Acquisition is present at Job Fairs and Industry events to build knowledge, insight and continue to attract top talent.

“Let's find out about you.”

• We are very open-minded on background, but candidates from an in-house talent acquisition or agency recruitment team will certainly find synergy with this role.
• You will possess genuine enthusiasm and curiosity for Talent Acquisition and a lifelong learning mentality to ensure you stay relevant in your field for your stakeholders.
• You will be looking for a role that allows you the opportunity and platform to make a genuine impact on a business. An impact defined by your knowledge and expertise, not job grade or position.
• Comfortable using a variety of sourcing methods and techniques to proactively headhunt candidates.
• Previous experience attending recruitment events.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced  to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves