Recruitment Business Partner

As Recruitment Business Partner you'll be responsible for delivering effective end-to-end recruitment of experienced hires to National Grid to deliver our current and future people requirements as we lead on a global stage to towards achieving a Net Zero future.

You'll use your excellent stakeholder management skills to partner with the business to source, attract, select and recruit high quality candidates, whilst enhancing our employer brand.

What you'll be getting up to?

Utilising your recruitment experience, from agency or in-house TA, you'll manage applicants through the end-to-end recruitment process to secure a positive candidate experience, ensuring our processes are inclusive and encourage DEI best practise. Managing a multitude of interesting and wide ranging mid-level role briefs, you'll be responsible for designing hiring campaigns, creating adverts, and using tools such as social media and headhunting to drive direct sourcing. Business partnering key stakeholders across the business, you'll develop talent pipelines for niche/ hard to fill positions, and map external markets, organisations and trends to deliver strong talent pipelines and recruitment insights, whilst driving time to offer and time to hire.

You will have an excellent knowledge of recruitment practices gained from a recruitment agency at a senior level or in-house Talent Acquisition background. In person you're exceptionally organised and a problem-solver, with keen attention to detail, who enjoys managing a high volume of projects whilst maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships utilising your collaborative working style. You have expertise in vendor management, and are adept using social media such as LinkedIn for recruitment and employer branding purposes.

• Salary between £45,000 p.a. to £51,000 p.a. depending on experience


• Annual Bonus & annual salary benchmarking


• Generous contributory pension scheme (for every £1 you put in we put in £2 - we double-match to a max company contribution of up to 12%)


• 25 days holiday (plus 8 statutory days, plus the opportunity to buy 5 more annually)


• Life Insurance: 10 x your basic salary


• Access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car, health and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.


• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it's relevant to your role.


• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).


• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.


• Supportive, friendly team