Recruitment Specialist

About Elis

Elis is an international leader in textile, hygiene and facility services, helping businesses across a wide range of industries to operate safely, sustainably and efficiently. With a presence in 29 countries and a team of around 52,000 people, we combine the scale and stability of an international organisation with the opportunity to build a rewarding and long-term career. Our people are at the heart of everything we do.

We believe in investing in our people, recognising their contribution and giving them the opportunity to develop, progress and build careers they can be proud of. At Elis, you'll be part of a culture built on trust, respect and collaboration, where your ideas and contribution are valued. We want our people to have a voice, and our commitment to listening and acting on employee feedback was recognised when Elis UK won Best Employee Engagement Experience Initiative at the 2024 CIPD People Management Awards for our Employee Voice programme.

With opportunities across operations, engineering, logistics, sales and our head office support functions, there are many ways to develop your career with Elis.

This is an exciting time to join recruitment at Elis UK. We are building a more proactive, direct and commercially focused internal recruitment function, and we're looking for a Recruitment Partner who wants to play a key part in that journey. This isn't a role that's simply about processing vacancies or waiting for applications to arrive. You'll partner directly with managers across the business to understand their recruitment challenges, identify the talent they need and develop the right sourcing strategy to find it.

You'll use direct sourcing, headhunting, talent mapping, referrals, job boards, Linked In and proactive networking to identify great people and build talent pipelines for both current and future requirements. Ultimately, we want our Recruitment Partners to become trusted recruitment experts to the business - bringing market knowledge, challenging where appropriate and helping managers make better hiring decisions. If you enjoy finding great people, building relationships and want the freedom to influence how an internal recruitment function develops, we'd love to hear from you.

• Partner with hiring managers across your region to understand their people plans, vacancies and future recruitment requirements.
• Build strong relationships with managers and become their go-to recruitment partner for attraction, sourcing and market insight.
• Lead recruitment briefings to understand the role, market, candidate profile and appropriate sourcing strategy.
• Advise and challenge hiring managers where appropriate around candidate availability, salary expectations, recruitment timescales and attraction strategies.
• Manage recruitment campaigns from initial briefing through to offer, delivering a high-quality experience for both candidates and hiring managers.
• Take a proactive approach to identifying talent rather than relying solely on applications.
• Use Linked In Recruiter, CV databases, job boards, referrals and direct headhunting to identify and engage prospective candidates.
• Build targeted talent pipelines for business-critical and regularly recruited roles.
• Create engaging and targeted recruitment campaigns across Linked In, Indeed, CV-Library and other relevant channels.
• Help increase direct hiring and reduce our reliance on recruitment agencies.
• Deliver a positive and professional candidate journey from first contact through to offer.
• Work closely with hiring managers to improve interview quality, pace and candidate experience.
• Maintain accurate recruitment activity through our ATS and ensure vacancies progress effectively through the recruitment process.
• Support the development of our employer brand and help tell the story of why people should build their careers with Elis.

We're looking for someone who genuinely enjoys recruitment and wants to be more than an order-taker. You'll be comfortable partnering with hiring managers, proactively approaching passive candidates and taking ownership of your recruitment market.

You'll ideally bring:

• Previous experience within recruitment, either in-house or agency
• Strong experience recruiting Maintenance Engineers, Engineering professionals and/or Sales professionals would be an advantage
• A proven track record of direct sourcing and candidate attraction, particularly within competitive or…