Role Overview

We have a fantastic new opportunity for an experienced and tenacious Talent Acquisition Business Partner to work in a truly global environment to play a pivotal role in sourcing, attracting, and hiring top talent for our organisation, reporting to, and working closely with the global talent acquisition manager. You will manage end to end recruitment and search processes, ensuring quality hires, an efficient and effective in-house recruitment service that prioritises direct hiring, as well as a high-touch candidate and hiring manager experience. You will partner closely with a variety of diverse multi-disciplinary stakeholders globally and will support the talent acquisition manager in ensuring robust reporting, recruitment best practise, talent mapping, networking and talent pipeline building, as well as being involved in key talent acquisition projects.

Whilst primarily remote based applicants living in the West Midlands, Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire or home counties will be prioritised.

Business Overview

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and pulses. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

Key Accountabilities

• Managing the full life cycle of recruitment and search processes for junior to mid- level positions across the business, from approval to recruit through to verbal offer acceptance.
• Prioritizing a direct sourcing strategy, below average time to hire, quality of hire and high-touch, candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Utilizing various sourcing methods; LinkedIn, job boards, social media sharing, LinkedIn headhunting, employee referrals and internal advertising.
• Creating compelling and attractive job adverts and advertising on all the key platforms available.
• CV sifting, candidate screening, providing consistent, clear overviews of the business and the role, assessing candidates against the role, and hiring manager criteria, through to shortlisting for hiring manager assessment.
• Managing and coordinating the hiring manager interview process ensuring interview best practice and coaching managers where needed.
• Providing detailed constructive interview feedback, managing and negotiating offers.
• Business partnering with and advising a diverse range of multi-disciplinary hiring managers and HR colleagues across our global business.
• Research, build and maintain talent pipelines in key skills shortage areas as guided by the talent acquisition manager to support future hiring needs and where needed external succession planning, in line with the business strategy.
• Partnering and engaging with carefully selected recruitment or search agencies where appropriate and approved by the talent acquisition manager.
• Researching and co-creating content for the business social media pages to increase our followers and improve employer brand perception in the market.
• Contribute to the evaluation and improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and candidate experience.
• Talent acquisition project involvement and contribution across EDI, systems enhancements/implementations and employer brand building and as guided by the talent acquisition manager.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in talent acquisition/recruitment from a corporate in-house and/or agency environment.
• Industry exposure from one or more of the following: FMCG, Financial Services and/or Commodity Trading.
• Passion for talent acquisition and a commitment to deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Good understanding of recruitment best practice across the whole recruitment process, including experience of critical candidate assessment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and collaborate effectively with hiring managers, HR business partners and candidates.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, with capacity to manage and prioritize multiple priorities, deadlines, and requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail especially with written communication.
• Resilience and tenacity, target driven with a continuous improvement mind-set.
• Problem solving skills and ability to think innovatively to overcome recruitment challenges.
• Willing and able to travel weekly to Worcestershire and occasionally to London.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.