Senior Recruitment & Onboarding Strategy Manager | S4 | HR | Milton Keynes |

Country: United Kingdom

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As the Senior Recruitment & Onboarding Strategy Manager, you will be responsible for developing and implementing effective recruitment and onboarding strategies to attract, select, and integrate top talent into the organisation. This role is crucial in optimising the recruitment process to meet the organisation's needs.

You will design and implement recruitment strategies to attract high quality candidates, including job advertising, sourcing, and networking. You will lead onboarding strategies, developing effective frameworks to ensure new hires are successfully integrated into the business, equipped to perform their roles, aligning closely with strategic workforce plans.
 

The difference you’ll make:

Join our new Talent Centre of Excellence and be responsible for driving the Recruitment & Onboarding strategy for the Bank. Your core accountabilities will include:

• Lead the design and framework of the Bank’s Recruitment & Onboarding strategy, ensuring alignment with strategic workforce plans and maintaining an employee-centric mindset.
• Act as a pure SME for Recruitment & Onboarding, co-creating our strategy for the future. Work closely with HR teams and senior leaders across the Bank, driving strategies locally with a global mindset aligned with the Santander Group.
• Design and establish the type of talent required through our recruitment strategy, ensuring a superior people experience for all internal, external, and international candidates, including emerging talent.
• Drive a community of practice, acting as a trainer, coach, and facilitator for the Strategic People Solutions team. Share technical CoE experiences and skills to enhance recruitment and onboarding processes.
   

What you’ll bring:

• Strong understanding of Recruitment & Onboarding processes, and the ability to analyse and communicate these effectively.
• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Santander operates, and how this connects to the San UK Strategic Blueprint
• Effective team player, collaborator, and networker across the HR function and wider Bank.
• Focused on providing a superior people experience with strong commercial awareness.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, capable of persuading and influencing others to achieve prioritised deliverables with a data-driven mindset.
• Ability to present and engage with Senior Executives on recommendations, being curious and adaptable, building collaborative relationships.
• Bachelor’s degree in education, Psychology, Human Resources, or Business Management.
• Extensive experience in Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, and Onboarding.
• Significant experience in Human Resources, whether within Santander, another organisation, or as a consultant.

Team and Business Area Overview:

You'll be part of a close-knit team within the newly formed Talent Centre of Excellence, reporting directly to the Director of Talent. You will support the Strategic People Solutions team and Strategic People Partners, forming a community of practice to share technical expertise and ensure the learning strategy is executed effectively within the business. Additionally, you will work closely with the Senior Talent Experience Manager in People Interactions to align recruitment and onboarding strategies operationally, ensuring organisational goals and objectives are met and consistently aligned with our recruitment strategy.

Career Development:

This role offers significant career progression opportunities within Santander’s HR function. As you drive the recruitment and onboarding strategy, you will gain exposure to senior leadership and play a key role in shaping the Bank’s talent acquisition and integration processes. Your contributions will directly impact the Bank’s ability to attract and retain top talent, providing a strong foundation for future leadership roles within the organisation.

What else you need to know:

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.

By working this way, we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we’re happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least 3 days in an office every week.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after five years service, with the option to purchase up to five contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments.
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans. 

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We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our people, so we welcome applications from across society.

You can find out more about how we’re embedding an inclusive culture that encourages our people to bring their full and authentic selves to work on our Inclusion and Belonging page.

A bit more about Santander  

At Santander we’re driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper.  This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.  

At Santander, we each take personal responsibility for managing risk by embracing the I AM Risk framework - to Identify, Assess, Manage and Report risks, and to continuously build a deeper understanding of the risks we face. It is an important part of our culture at Santander, and we will provide you with knowledge to help you manage risks in your role.

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