Job title: Recruitment Business Partner

Location: Preston

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £38,000

What you’ll be doing:

You will lead a small team of Recruitment Operations Specialist to identify and supply BAE Systems Early Careers workforce, ensuring talent pools are able to meet the demand of our multidisciplinary organisation along with providing an efficient, world class service to hiring managers. You will be accountable for all Early Careers hire activity within allocated business unit, including line management of a team of professionals.

Your skills and experiences:

• Experienced people manager with proven track record of building and developing effective teams
• Operational experience, ideally in a Shared Service or recruitment environment
• Extensive expertise in the recruitment field (high volume recruitment)
• Experience of delivering to and working with service level agreements and service definitions.
• Previous experience in delivering niche and high-volume transactional recruitment services
• Proven ability of challenging and improving stakeholder perception through delivery of contractual measures and excellent service

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual leave incentive.

The Early Careers team:

The key focus of the Early Careers recruitment team is to create a positive experience where our Graduate and Apprentice candidates feel informed and prepared for their Early Careers Journey into the business. The Early Careers recruitment activities across all UK business areas to deliver a best-in-class recruitment service for our graduate, undergraduate and apprentice programmes.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.