Location:

Manchester, GB

Opening Date: 29 Oct 2024

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Talent Acquisition Executive

Closing Date for Applications - 4th Nov 2024

Our Story

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.

Our Winning Team

Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.

The Talent Acquisition Team at City Football Group (CFG) are responsible for identifying, attracting, selecting, and recruiting top talent. This process is the key pillar of the employee journey and is arguably one of the most important drivers of organizational success.

Your Impact

The Talent Acquisition Executive supports all aspects of talent attraction & acquisition across all business areas both UK & Internationally.

The role is accountable for the full recruitment lifecycle acting as an internal 360-degree recruiter from obtaining the required approvals, drafting job descriptions and adverts, advertising these across multiple channels (in line with our ED&I priorities), screening and shortlisting applications, managing interviews through to the verbal offer.

This role will also provide external market insight, feeding this through the TA manager to ensure our external offering is competitive. Using key sourcing tools to proactively source candidates.

What You’ll Be Doing

Partnering with internal stakeholders to understand resource requirements, then creating 360 recruitment plans and managing this through to offer.
Undertake all activities as part of the recruitment lifecycle including obtaining the required approvals, drafting job descriptions, advertising across multiple channels, headhunting (where required) screening and shortlisting applications, then managing interviews and offer.
Provide Insight to stakeholders on external market trends and talent suitability. Using TA knowledge to advise ways the advert could be adapted to ensure it reaches the correct audience, this could be a title change to align with the external market or advertising on a particular platform.
Manage stakeholder relationships autonomously ensuring leader satisfaction is high with the TA service.
Efficiently manage the candidate journey – ensuring the candidate > employee journey is as smooth as possible, and that our employer brand is represented correctly externally.
Continuous improvement on daily TA processes to ensure they are smooth and efficient for both the hiring manager and the candidate. This includes offering solutions to ad hoc challenges which may arise.
Ensuring the TA dashboard data is correct and updated daily to ensure accurate reports are provided to the Head of TA and other leadership.
Ensuring we align with our wider ED&I strategy including inclusive job adverts and advertising, through to fair interview process, diverse recruitment panels and assessment.

What You’ll Bring

Demonstratable ability to manage end-to- end recruitment processes across multiple departments and disciplines (internally or agency side)
Expertise in utilising a breadth of attraction methods with strong direct sourcing experience including social media channels, linkedin recruiter and other job boards
Knowledge and experience of recruiting for a diverse organisation, embedding best practice ED&I into talent acquisition
Strong experience multitasking, managing several active roles at a time
Demonstrable evidence of building and maintaining (internal & external) stakeholder relationships
Ability to maintain data points and system updates (ATS exposure)
Ability to provide solutions to the TA manager based on difficult hiring needs without the need to escalate

Hybrid Working
We offer a hybrid working model part based at our world-class campus in Manchester. This balance allows you to be fully immersed in our culture and collaborate with key stakeholders, while maintaining flexibility.

What to Expect from our Interview Process

Introductory Call: Connect with our Talent team to discuss this exciting opportunity, learn more about City Football Group, our inclusive culture, and the benefits we offer.
Video Interview: Speak with your potential future manager about your experience and answer competency-based questions.
Onsite Interview: Meet with your potential manager and team members at our HQ in Manchester to further explore our culture and the role.

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