Volume Recruiter | S2 | P&C | Unity Place, Milton Keynes

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We’re building a brand-new in-house recruitment team, and we need passionate Recruiters to help us internalise and elevate our permanent hiring strategy. This is more than just filling roles—it’s about finding the best talent to drive the future of Santander. 

As a key part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to shape recruitment processes, engage with top talent, and support our mission to build a diverse and dynamic workforce. If you’re ready to make a real impact and grow your career with us, apply now and be part of something exceptional. 

The Volume Recruiter plays a critical role in delivering seamless, high-quality hiring experiences for both candidates and hiring managers within high-volume recruitment environments. Working as part of the Talent Experience Team, this role is responsible for managing end-to-end recruitment campaigns—from planning and advertising, through to screening, assessments, interviews, and offers. The recruiter will ensure processes are efficient, engaging providing super candidate and hiring manager experience. 

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Proven experience in recruitment with a strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment processes – Volume hiring experience ideally 

• Experience in developing and executing talent attraction strategies to build pipelines for current and future hiring needs, including leveraging digital platforms, networking and targeted campaigns 

• Strong communication skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage and influence candidates and stakeholders effectively 

• Skilled at building and maintaining relationships with hiring managers, candidates and external partners 

• Capable of working in a fast paced environment, adapting to changing priorities and solving challenges proactively. 

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Experience managing multiple requisitions with competing priorities—organised, agile, and solution-oriented.  

• Creative flair for building targeted attraction campaigns and managing the candidate journey end to end.  

• Confidence using data and recruitment tech tools to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement.  

• A passion for delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

What else you need to know:

This role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes. 

We want our people to thrive at work and home and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).  

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location. 

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process. 

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.  We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.
How we’ll reward you.

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.  

• (Starting salary of £36,150 plus a) £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits. 

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.

• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.

• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.

• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.

• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more. 

• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.

• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.

• As a Santander UK employee, you can request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services

What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email, or face to face. You can contact us at [email protected].