Talent Acquisition Specialist £31,000 + Employee Benefits Hybrid Working - 2 days in our office in Hebburn 6 Months Fixed Term Contract Join us as a Talent Acquisition Specialist and be influential in your approach to helping us build great teams across our brands. You will provide pro-active and professional in-house recruitment support to the hiring managers within your business area. What we can offer you * 33 days’ annual leave, including bank holidays * The opportunity to buy additional holiday * Retail discounts that save you money every day * Gym discounts, cash healthcare plans, and a cycle-to-work scheme * Car discounts for new and used purchases and servicing * Flexible pension scheme and Sharesave scheme to grow your savings * Family-friendly policies that help you spend more time with the people that matter * A wellbeing programme to support you and your family * Ongoing recognition from your peers and leadership team * A community volunteering day What you’ll do day to day * Proactively managing the end-to-end recruitment cycle from identification of the role, through to on-boarding * Ensuring a seamless candidate experience throughout the recruitment process * Advertising vacancies using our HR system, job boards and social media platforms * Proactive sourcing of passive candidates using innovative recruitment techniques * Providing on-going support to senior stakeholders throughout the process, advising of best practice * Managing a range of recruitment activities including; CV sifting, telephone interviewing, assessment centres, open evenings, etc * Utilising our global HR system to ensure that all information is kept up to date for the team and also for the candidates * Actively promoting and encouraging workforce diversity at all levels of recruitment Helpful skills and qualifications Don’t worry about ticking off every single skill here - if you care about delivering great experiences as much as we do, we want to hear from you. * Previous recruitment experience, either in-house or within an agency * Understanding of headhunting and talent pooling * Experience of working with an ATS or HR system * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal; confident in dealing with the full range of business users, across various channels * Extremely organised, self-motivated, and enthusiastic * Ability to work on own initiative, as well as part of a team Who we are Group 1 Automotive is on an exciting growth journey. We’re the largest partner in the UK for Mercedes- Benz, Volkswagen and Audi, and second largest for BMW & MINI. Home to more than 7000 colleagues who are dedicated to providing exceptional customer services, we have 113 dealerships in the UK, representing 21 brands at the forefront of automotive retail. But you don’t need to love cars to work with us - you just need to share our mission to create outstanding and trusted experiences for our customers, our partners, and our people. In return, we recognise that the success of our business is because of our fantastic people. Which is why we’re committed to providing fantastic career opportunities, comprehensive training, competitive pay and benefits and full support personally and professionally