Talent Acquisition Manager

Function: People

Location: Edinburgh or London with hybrid working and UK Travel

Salary: Circa £65,000 depending on experience, plus full benefits listed below.

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 1st April 2024 (please note, we may close vacancies early if we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!)

Ready to join a People Function team that manages the acquisition of our most important asset – our people?

This is a leadership role managing a team to attract and hire the best talent through challenging and supporting people managers to build diverse succession/talent pipelines and ensure the best possible candidate experience.  In addition, you will play a key role in strategic workforce planning, creating data to provide internal and external insights and maximising the budget available.

A bit about the role accountabilities:

• Accountable for developing and implementing strategic recruitment and workforce planning initiatives that allow HEINEKEN UK to attract exceptional and significantly more diverse talent than we have ever before.
• Provide clarity, capability and support for our hiring managers to allow them to objectively select the best candidates whilst providing a fantastic and inclusive candidate experience.
• To support, and also challenge, our senior leaders to evolve their mindset on what great talent looks like, away from hiring from within our own industry to taking risks on candidates with potential and learning agility.
• Increase the visibility, awareness and opportunity for internal progression, contributing to greater colleague engagement, retention and career mobility.  Challenge and support people managers across HUK to build diverse succession/talent pipelines.
• Lead, inspire and motivate the Talent Acquisition team, manage performance, support the creation of comprehensive development plans for each colleague and build a succession pipeline for the team.

Who we’re looking for:

Absolute subject matter expert in a talent acquisition leadership role within a large and complex organisation, i.e. varied, wide and deep experience of a range of recruiting methodologies, from mass recruitment, headhunting, executive search, early careers, commercial, operational and technical recruitment.

Ability to communicate the business benefits of creating diverse talent pipelines and the commercial benefit of a diverse hiring strategy therefore experience of working with and influencing a broad range of stakeholders from Executive through to Operational colleagues.

Demonstrable track record of utilising data to provide insights; support workforce planning and to measure cost and value.

Our ways of working

Our office sites operate a hybrid model. You’ll spend Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a day of your choice in the office (either Edinburgh or London) and can work from home on two days, although but you’re more than welcome to come and work from the office on those days too. This role also requires travel to our UK Brewery sites (Manchester, Tadcaster and Hereford)

Our benefits and rewards

• Annual bonus
• Flexible Benefits Allowance
• Company-funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double-matched pension (up to 10%)
• 35 days holiday (holiday trading available)
• Retail discounts
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers (low and no alcohol options available)
• Unique learning and development opportunities

…And much more! Check out our Why Join Us page if you’d like more information.

You’ll also get the opportunity to join our colleague networks, in which people from across the business connect to help champion diversity, equity and inclusion, ensuring we’re continuing to give people a voice.

The application

If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay! Please note that VISA sponsorship is not offered for this role.

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at recruitment@heineken.co.uk.

You might feel that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, and that’s okay – we all need the opportunity to develop and untap our full potential. If this advert’s piqued your interest, we’d encourage you to submit an application rather than ruling yourself out. You never know – you may be exactly what we’re looking for!

Who we are

We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.

It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.

When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.

If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.

There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us, and brew a better career.