Job Introduction
At William Grant & Sons, we are passionate about crafting world-class whiskies that embody tradition, innovation, and excellence. With a presence in over 200 markets, our brand is synonymous with quality, heritage, and craftsmanship. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Recruitment Advisor to join our team and play a crucial role in attracting and hiring top talent to support our Operations Business Unit.
As a Recruitment Advisor, you will be responsible for delivering expert in-house recruitment support across our operations in the UK and Ireland. Your primary goal will be to attract, engage, and recruit high-performing candidates while ensuring a seamless and exceptional candidate experience. You will work closely with hiring managers, HR, and other stakeholders to understand business needs, create effective recruitment campaign plans, and deliver results that align with our company’s objectives.
Main Responsibility
- Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and develop effective recruitment plans to address these in line with William Grant Way processes and relevant KPI’s.
- Support hiring leaders to manage the end-to-end recruitment process, across sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selecting candidates.
- Develop methods to target and attract direct applicants as a priority, sourcing and attracting candidates through targeted searching on multimedia platforms, engaging and retaining interest through appropriate communications and promotion of our employer brand to build a diverse talent pool and minimise advertising and agency spend
- Collate and manage the documentation from each interview, auditing for completion and adherence to process, and obtaining right to work documents with an understanding of GDPR and its application during the process.
- Ensure a positive and consistent candidate experience from application through to onboarding.
- Utilize data and analytics to monitor recruitment performance and identify areas for improvement, providing data-driven insights and recommendations to ensure effective sourcing plans for all roles/teams/locations.
- Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships including hiring managers and external recruitment partners to ensure strong market intelligence, the availability of high-quality candidates, diverse shortlists and to promote our reputation as an employer of choice
Our Ideal Candidate
- Proven experience in recruitment, ideally within a fast-paced, FMCG environment.
Strong understanding of recruitment processes, tools, and techniques.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously and meet deadlines and KPI’s. - Experience using applicant tracking systems (ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter and other recruitment technologies.
- Knowledge of legislative requirements and regulations related to recruitment.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
- Passion for providing an exceptional candidate experience.
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
William Grant & Sons