Argos Senior Recruiter - 12 month FTC

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.

Why join us

Joining the recruitment team at Argos means being part of a dynamic and collaborative environment where the candidate experience is at the heart of everything we do. As a Senior Recruiter, you will play a crucial role in attracting high-quality and diverse talent to our business units, working closely with hiring managers to understand their needs and deliver successful recruitment outcomes up to Senior Manager level. With a focus on building strong partnerships, leveraging market insights, and utilising innovative resourcing technologies, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our recruitment processes and contribute to our ongoing success.

What you'll do

As the Senior Recruiter at Argos, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process for various business units, ensuring the successful attraction and selection of high-quality and diverse candidates up to Senior Manager level. Your role will involve developing strong partnerships with hiring managers to understand talent requirements, building talent pools for key roles, and delivering engaging recruitment experiences that strengthen the employer brand. By utilising your expert recruitment experience and knowledge of best practises, you will lead detailed vacancy consultations, proactively manage candidate and stakeholder satisfaction, and participate in recruitment projects to drive continuous improvement and efficiency in the recruitment process.

Who you are

You are a seasoned recruitment professional with a wealth of expertise in end-to-end recruitment processes, talent pooling, and market mapping, particularly within sectors such as People & Transformation. Your ability to develop strong partnerships with hiring managers, deliver high-quality diverse candidate shortlists, and provide engaging recruitment experiences showcases your commitment to putting candidate experience at the forefront of your work. With a proactive and adaptable approach, you navigate changing business contexts with ease, embrace new methodologies, and continuously seek ways to improve recruitment strategies, ensuring positive employer branding and successful outcomes in alignment with business needs.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrable experience delivering end-to-end recruitment processes for corporate roles, including attraction, shortlisting, offer management and onboarding
• Proven ability to partner with and influence hiring managers to define role requirements and deliver diverse, high-quality candidate shortlists
• Evidence of using multiple sourcing channels and recruitment technologies to build and maintain talent pipelines
• Demonstratable experience of using recruitment data or KPIs to monitor performance and identify improvements to service delivery
• Experience building proactive recruitment strategies tailored to business needs

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits.

Here are some of them

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).