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Job no: 074591
Work type: Fixed Term Full Time
Location: Remote - work from anywhere within the UK
Categories: People

Business Unit: HR & Comms
Salary range: £30,000 - £40,000 per annum DOE
Contract type: 12 months fixed term

Give your career some Virgin va-va-voom

Virgin Money is all about disrupting the status quo, taking on the challenges of the future, and saying goodbye to boring banking. We’re on the lookout for like-minded individuals and innovators like you to help push us forward. We’re also transforming how we work to give our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose with A Life More Virgin.

Here’s what it means for YOU:

• 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• A 35-hour working week
• 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And you get these Red-Hot Rewards from day one!

The Talent Acquisition team has a key role to play in supporting Virgin Money achieve it’s ambition – to be the UK’s best digital bank. We help our managers attract and recruit the best talent in the market for their teams. We’re also on a mission to ensure our workforce is reflective of both our customer base and the communities we serve, and we’ve set ourselves some big commitments to do this.

To help achieve this, we’re seeking some additional support to bolster our awesome Talent Acquisition team. The role is multifaceted as you oversee the end-to-end recruitment process for specific business areas. We’re a team who are incredibly passionate about giving the best experience to our candidates and stakeholders alike and genuinely love what we do. You’ll get to engage and collaborate with colleagues across the business at all levels as well as building successful relationships with external partners.

Day to day you’ll:

• Oversee the full lifecycle of recruitment for volume and specialist roles, developing inclusive campaign plans that allow us to attract diverse talent
• Deliver a fair and transparent recruitment experience partnering with hiring managers, offering advice and challenging when required
• You’ll help create job adverts and source candidates using a range of internal and external platforms including LinkedIn and other socials
• Occasionally engage and manage delivery with our external Recruitment Partners
• Build our Employer Brand by taking the opportunity to create innovative campaigns and helping candidates Live A Life More Virgin
• Work with colleagues within the wider People space and providing recruitment advice around talent attraction, selection and market conditions and highlighting any assessment tools and techniques where appropriate
• Use your insatiable curiosity to search for the best ideas and solutions so we can deliver an exceptional service, making sure we don’t rest of our laurels when it comes to process – questioning why we do things is actively encouraged!
• Get involved with projects across the team.

You’ll bring with you:

• Solid recruitment experience, from an agency or in-house role and skilled in sourcing volume roles
• Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to build relationships and influence across all levels
• Previous experience of running multiple end-to-end recruitment campaigns
• Good knowledge of social media platforms specifically LinkedIn so you can proactively identify and connect with candidates
• Experience of successfully creating talent attraction strategies and direct sourcing to build and manage talent pools
• A track record of advising on the best assessment and selections tool for specific roles
• An ability to work at pace and accurately whilst keeping your customer at the heart of everything you do
• Great communication skills and a beady eye for detail to create red hot adverts and comms in line with our brand.

The icing on the cake would be (but not essential):

• Experience of working within an agile environment
• The ability to design and run assessment centres
• Experience of sourcing candidates for operational and contact centre roles.

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the “You’ll bring with you” section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so don’t let that put you off applying, we’d love to hear from you!

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live A Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Inclusion at Virgin Money
Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. It’s good for you, it’s good for us and it’s amazing for our customers. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application? We’d love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at [email protected]

Now the legal bit…
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we’ll need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If you’re successful securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. This includes a credit and criminal record check, as well 3 years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we’ll ask for 6 years' of regulatory references and once in role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.