Talent Acquisition Partner

We are seeking someone who is enthusiastic about recruitment whether that be sourcing, business partnering, improving the candidate experience, or fostering inclusivity at every stage. We recruit various engineering and management consultancy roles for multiple locations in the UK and Ireland.

Candidate Attraction

Manage the full recruitment cycle, from drafting attractive adverts, sourcing, sifting and interviewing candidates to offering roles.

Continuous Improvement

Proactively keeping up to date with evolving best practice, industry trends and hiring challenges to provide expert advice to business leaders.

Advising and Shaping

Provide tailored solutions to hiring managers, understanding their hiring needs and offering varied solutions.

Contractor Management

Liaising with hiring managers to complete our processes for the compliant engagement of contractor resources.

Qualifications

We are looking for great people to join our HR team in Oxford, we support all the AFRY businesses operating across the UK and Ireland as well as collaborating with colleagues around the world and our HR centres of excellence based from Sweden.

Our HR team are the anchor of enabling an excellent candidate and colleague experience underpinned with appropriate compliance, making AFRY a great place to work. We expect you to have the following experience (but we don't expect anyone to tick every box):

• In-house recruitment, preferably with exposure to professional services or engineering, which could have come through a broader HR role.
• You will have managed your own time and balanced conflicting demands like personally sifting hundreds of applications as well as working with hiring managers to maximise the use of our contractor workforce.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a flair for drafting compelling diverse and modern adverts. Consulting skills to effectively advise both hiring managers and candidates.
• Applying rigorous procedures, as an example with regards to contractor management, conducting gap analyses against our processes and partnering hiring managers to ensure compliance to our thorough checks.
• HR policies, compliance and recruitment best practices. Recruitment systems such as SmartRecruiters and assessments tools such as SHL is desirable but not mandatory.

Company Description

AFRY is an international engineering, design and advisory company. We support our clients to progress in sustainability and digitalisation. We are 19,500 devoted experts in infrastructure, industry, energy and digitalisation, creating sustainable solutions for generations to come. This is an exciting time to be in the Energy sector, guiding our clients towards sustainability and net zero futures.

In the UK and Ireland, all five AFRY global divisions operate and across Oxford, London, Horsham, Dublin, Plymouth, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Warrington. We have 300 colleagues working in a hybrid manner from engineers to management consultants all focussed on accelerating the transition towards a sustainable society.

Additional Information

We value a healthy work life balance and are committed to your wellbeing. We will consider a range of flexible working arrangements, including part-time, flexible working patterns and we operate a hybrid working environment. Please include any preferences in your application.

We offer a competitive salary, a performance related discretionary bonus scheme and an excellent range of benefits, including 25 days holiday each year rising to 30 with continued service, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, income protection, and pension scheme. We also offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay, offering 16 weeks full pay for parents. This is also supported by generous family support options such as back up childcare support and return to work coaching.

As part of your application process, please provide a CV and covering letter stating why you want to work for AFRY and how your experiences are relevant to our requirements.

AFRY is committed to creating an inclusive & diverse environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, disability, or age. You will be part of a global and diverse company demonstrated by our 40 nationalities and languages spoken in our UK business, where our differences are our strengths. Join us to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society.

At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That's how we're making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.