Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE NEEDED:

• Proven experience in high-volume recruitment within a fast-paced, customer facing environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in Stakeholder manager / influence throughout hiring cycles
• An excellent external network & knowledge of good acquisition practises in other leading organisations which is kept up to date
• Experience of presenting acquisition data such as cost to fill, time to hire.
• HR & ATS systems knowledge.
• Proficient on Linked-in Recruiter.
• Data-driven mindset and experience with recruitment marketing
• Ability to build & Maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders/ Hiring Managers
• This role will require frequent travel across Southern Regions (London Central, South & Wales) as well as our head office in Bury, Greater Manchester.
• This role can be based in either Bury Head office or London Oxford Street
  We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
  Thank you for your time
  

  J

• Proven experience in high-volume recruitment within a fast paced, customer focused environment
• Build an external bank of talent within your related disciplines, through proactive recruitment and networking events, and innovative talent pipelining strategies.
• Proactively build the JD employer brand externally within your network, utilisingsocial media, events,and careers fairs.
• Ability to understand the specific skills, matching these with the requirements of the role.
• Relaying initial candidate insights to the hiring manager at critical points such as interview and offer management stages.
• From first candidate touch point,be a professional advocate of the JD group.
• Maintain a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process, ensuring candidatesare well informed and looked after at each stage of the recruitment journey.
• Ensure business areas follow a structured interview process, identifyinghigh performing candidates within the market that match our business requirements and values.
• Provide in depth acquisition data to the Talent Acquisition senior leadership team and line managersfor review.
• Collate, upload,and manage live vacancies onto ATS, Linkedin and other resourcing outlets.
• Manage the applicant tracking system to filter and update online applications for vacancies.
• Assistwith careers fairs off site and virtually.
• Ensure all job descriptions are up to date and utilised throughout recruitment process.