Talent Acquisition Partner – Tech in London, United Kingdom

Talent Acquisition Partner – Tech

Location:

London

Department:

Not Specified

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

14 Oct 2024

Job Description

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include Talk, talkSPORT, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve.

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

The Talent Acquisition Team: You will join a team of specialist Talent Acquisition Partners who are passionate about hiring top talent that will contribute to the continued growth and success of News UK brands. Whilst delivering high quality candidate and hiring manager experience.

The Role: You will partner with your stakeholders to understand their business areas and teams. You will advise on market and hiring best practice. You will own and deliver the end to end recruitment from attraction, sourcing, interviewing through to offer. Reporting to the Head of Talent Acquisition and working closely with HR, DE&I and the wider Talent team.

Day to day you will:

• Proactively identify and engage talent through direct sourcing methods, events and communities. Build and maintain talent pools.

• Always hires with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind.

• Understand candidates’ motivations, career aspirations and experience through great listening and questioning. Provide excellent, highly engaged candidate experience.

• Maintain specialist market understanding, benchmarking and what top talent look for in an organisation they join.

• Lead on your departments team marketing and brand proposition as well as the wider News UK employer value proposition.

• Report on hiring metrics and applicant data to inform future hiring decisions. Present this in engaging ways to your stakeholders.

• Contribute to People team projects, in particular; DE&I, early talent, employee experience and LT&D.

• Work with the people team both in the UK and globally to forecast recruitment needs and identify trends.

• Supplier management of partnerships and external agencies, ensuring we are maximising these.

• Continuous process and ways of working improvement.

What we are looking for:

• Talent Acquisition expertise: Proven track record of TA excellence, with a focus on direct sourcing, engaging passive candidates and advising on interviews.

• Solutions oriented and proactive: Spots opportunities to drive improvement and works to provide different solutions where needed. We really welcome new ideas and suggestions.

• Communication and Relationship Management: Excellent ability to build relationships. Skilled in collaboration, questioning and listening.

• Data oriented: ability to interpret talent related data and share this with stakeholders in an articulate way.

• DE&I Knowledge: Keeps up to the minute knowledge in the DE&I space and how this impacts TA, is able to advise on this when hiring.

• Knowledge of the candidate market: This role covers technology, data and analytics, so experience recruiting in some of these areas is a plus.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat – they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.