Regional TA Manager Europe & Global Functions

About us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 119 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 26,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.

As we move forward, our consumers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful NGP business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

The Role

This role can be based anywhere in the UK

In this new role you will collaborate and work closely with the Europe and Global Functions P&C Business Partners in pursuit of our ambitious business strategy and transformation plans and specifically implement and manage aligned TA plans to deliver business objectives.

Reporting to the Global Head of TA Delivery you will manage a hybrid team of Imperial and RPO Recruiters to ensure that we attract and hire diverse talent with critical skills and experience and at the right time, right cost and in the right location to enable and accelerate delivery of business performance. You will also coach, challenge and influence hiring managers and performance coach the TA team to ensure that we deliver high levels of candidate and hiring manager satisfaction.

Key Accountabilities

• Managing Resourcing Plans and delivery for the Global TA COE, ensuring active partnership and delivery of effective service against SLAs and KPIs
• Advocates for and effectively activates our Employer Brand to attract, motivate and retain the diverse talent and critical skills required
• Champions the proactive delivery of our TA DE&I plans to ensure that we attract and develop diverse talent
• Manages and performance coaches the TA team, proactively addressing any issues/concerns and ensuring that SLAs are being met and ultimately that a seamless recruitment service is offered across the Region as one TA team
• Mediates between global and local needs to ensure global consistency and local relevance
• Ensures that Regional TA strategies are aligned by maintaining communication with Regional counterparts and reporting into the Global Head of TA Delivery
• Supports recruiting with hands on end to end delivery, as required
• Liaises directly with hiring managers and other key stakeholders to ensure high levels of hiring manager satisfaction and candidate experience
• Proactively manages a dashboard of key TA metrics, such as vacancy volumes, time to fill, source of hire and cost per hire, to ensure both efficient and effective recruitment and to identify and implement actionable insights to drive continuous improvements in TA systems and processes
• Actively leads the Regional TA team towards achievement of KPIs, leading any system or process improvements and leading any required upskilling of the Team
• Leads and actively contributes to evaluations, pilots and implementations of leading-edge recruiting tools such as ATS, AI sourcing and Textio to ensure continuous improvement

Skills & Experience

• Significant in-house corporate recruiting experience, leading remote teams of Recruiters
• Success managing remote Recruiting Teams and through performance coaching and capability management
• Experience developing new ways of working in Recruitment bringing new external practices
• Experience reducing cost out of the Talent Acquisition process
• Excellent coaching and leadership skills to develop a high performing TA team

What we offer

Imperial Brands offer a competitive package of salary, bonus scheme, pension and 25 days holiday (with an additional 4 days on top to cover the Christmas period and bank holidays) and hybrid work.

Next steps

Interested applicants should apply with their CV highlighting their suitability for the role.