Job Description :
Job Title : Talent Acquisition Specialist – High Volume Team
Location : Edinburgh/Glasgow/Elgin
Contract Type: FTC - Full time
About us:
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.
Diageo’s Performance Ambition calls for us to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world; this requires us to guarantee our plans with the right people and capabilities.
About You:
We are looking for someone who has a growth mindset, dynamic in approach, enthusiastic and has a passion for finding and nurturing talent. You may not come from a talent or recruitment background, but if the first part of this paragraph sounds like you and you’re strong in organisation and communication – we want to hear from you!
About the Role:
As a Talent Engagement Specialist, you will play a crucial role in supporting our team to attract, recruit, and retain top talent. Your main responsibility will be to develop strategies alongside hiring managers, aiming to find and match great people with their vacancies – focussing on vacancies within Procurement; Planning & Logistics; Supply Technical; Sustainability & Strategy based throughout Europe.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with hiring managers and HRBPs to identify talent needs and develop strategies to attract great candidates.
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including sourcing, screening, interviewing and positioning job offers; right through to onboarding.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates, ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
- Develop and implement talent engagement programs and initiatives, such as Employer Brand campaigns, Open Days and talent pipelining.
- Monitoring feedback and outcomes received to empower you to learn, adapt and grow.
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in talent engagement and make recommendations for continuous improvement.
Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages
- Proven experience in a role focussed around detail, delivery and strong communication.
- An understanding of talent acquisition and/or engagement strategies.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with candidates and internal stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.
- Proactive approach with a passion for continuous improvement.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Proficiency in a tracking software would be great, i.e. Applicant Tracking System or CRM tool.
Diversity statement:
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
Be you with us!
Worker Type :
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)
Primary Location:
Onyx, Glasgow
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-03-19
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What We Do
Diageo's official LinkedIn account. We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry. With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future. To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet
