Recruitment Consultant

Job Introduction

Selfridges has always been much more than a shop. We’re a social space where everyone is welcome and feels a sense of belonging, a creative playground where culture and commerce collide, and an experimental hub where you can discover the most innovative and sustainable ideas in retail. We’re here to help make the world brighter. And you can be an important part of this. We’ll talk more about the role below, but before we get to that, let’s share with you the good stuff…  

Rewards and benefits 

Life at Selfridges is dynamic, exciting, and always evolving. As well as working with some of the most cutting-edge, iconic and boundary-pushing brands, designers and creatives, we also offer our team members opportunities to help make a positive difference through our network of communities, both within and outside Selfridges. Here are just a few of our rewards and benefits that help make our team experience that bit more extraordinary. 

• Flexible working options to benefit you, your family and your wellbeing that can include part-time, flexi-time, job sharing or hybrid working

• Generous annual leave that increases with length of service 

• Up to five paid volunteering days – from beach cleans to co-ordinating food and clothing donations 

• Family leave that suits your set up including Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental leave policies 

• Defined pension contribution scheme  

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme  

• Enviable team member discount including sale previews and double discount days 

• Exclusive local discounts on a range of restaurants, bars, beauticians and entertainment 

• Subsidised gym memberships  

• Annual travel pass and cycle-to-work schemes  

• A sustainable car salary sacrifice scheme 

• Several internal communities to get involved in from our Diversity Board and Green Warriors who are leading the charge on D,E&I and sustainability, to the Wellbeings who are always thinking of new ways to champion healthy minds, bodies and routines for our team members 

• Workplace Options, our confidential team member assistance programme for when life gets tricky or you need a little guidance 

• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development 

Read on to find out how you can play your part in Reinventing Retail… 

Role Responsibility

The Selfridges Recruitment Team are part of the wider HR team who are focused on recruiting, retaining and developing the best talent for Selfridges.

 As a Recruitment Consultant your focus will be to ensure appropriate Recruitment processes and plans are in place to deliver this. You will use your broad skillset to ensure that these processes are followed internally to fulfil current and future recruitment needs along with constantly looking at ways to ensure we are the destination for an extraordinary candidate experience.

Role Scope:

• To drive consistent processes to deliver recruitment needs across all sites
• To creatively manage attraction methods which deliver results
• To establish and maintain both internal and external relationships
• To support recruitment related business activity
• To promote the Employer Brand

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience of managing the end to end RETAIL recruitment process for both volume and specific recruitment areas.
• An in-depth knowledge of candidate attraction methods such as LinkedIn.
• Exposure using a range of social media methods to build brand engagement and increase candidate attraction.
• Strong experience in designing an evaluating recruitment tools such as role guides and selection tools.
• Exposure of managing reports including vacancy trackers, finance updates and performance reports.
• Knowledge of using ATS systems.
• Working knowledge of Workday.
• Experience of developing individuals in their roles either through line management or partnering.
• Experience of working in a fast paced, evolving retail environment.
• Knowledge of recruitment attraction methodology, branding and the retail industry.
• Experience of working in a team environment and the ability to build strong cross departmental relationships at all levels.
• A background in direct sourcing through headhunting and market mapping.
• Knowledge of employment law including immigration.

About the Company

Everyone is welcome 

Selfridges is a place where we want everyone to feel a sense of belonging. We embrace every self and are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are leading with purpose to not only increase the visibility and recognition of under-represented talent within our organisation, but the wider industry too. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome – irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all.   

Our awards cabinet  

We’re not ones to brag, but since you asked...Selfridges has won the award for The World’s Best Department Store an unprecedented four times at the IGDS awards, with an additional award for the Best Sustainability Campaign. We were also recognised as a ‘Best 25 Big Company to Work For 2020’ as awarded by The Sunday Times. 

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