What you need to know:

• Deep expertise in all aspects of executive search; including creative candidate sourcing, candidate generation and development, shortlisting presentations, stakeholder management, interview preparation, and offer negotiations.
• Demonstrable experience in running multiple end-to-end executive search assignments – specifically in Retail / FMCG industries (This can be in-house or via a search firm).
• A strong research background, with market mapping and/or talent profiling expertise.
• Understanding of how executive search agencies work to ensure the best negotiation of engagement terms.
• Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment and HR legislation, as well as industry best practices to protect our business.
• Strong relationship management skills to the most C-Suite level.

What you need to show

• Proven commitment to exceptional candidate and stakeholder relationship management.
• A passion for building the most diverse pipelines the market has to offer.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong external and internal networking and collaboration skills.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Passionate about talent acquisition and curious about the external market and best-in-class sourcing techniques.

What decisions do you make:

• Support Senior leaders to select the right approaches for recruitment, ensuring we explore direct approaches before considering third-party support.
• Negotiations with key executive suppliers and offering candidates.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private heathcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a start, we work as business partners and specialists. That’s whether we’re making sure that nearly 180,000 colleagues are paid on time, or that our strategy is helping us attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their talent. This is a fast-moving business and our policies and rewards keep up too. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives so there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours is important. What’s certain is that you’ll be joining one of the happiest, most engaged teams in the business.