Senior Recruiter - Technology

About the Role

At Sainsbury's, we prioritize meaningful work and achieving a balanced work-life dynamic. Our HR approach is unique, combining business partnership and specialist roles to support nearly 150,000 employees with timely payroll and strategic talent management. As a Senior Technology Recruiter, you will contribute significantly to our ongoing technology transformation and organizational growth. This role embraces flexible working arrangements, collaborating primarily from our SSC offices in Manchester, Coventry, or London, and remotely, with team meetings about 1-2 times per month.

Key Responsibilities

You will lead full-cycle recruitment activities across a spectrum of technology, digital, and data functions, collaborating with senior hiring managers to attract and secure top talent. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will introduce market insights, talent intelligence, and expert recruitment advice to influence hiring strategies effectively. Ensuring an outstanding and inclusive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process is central to your work.

Additionally, you will have opportunities to spearhead recruitment projects such as developing strategic talent pipelines, conducting hiring campaigns, enhancing employer branding efforts, and refining recruitment processes by analyzing data, market trends, and candidate feedback.

Candidate Profile

We seek a passionate recruiter adept at cultivating relationships and delivering exceptional hiring results. Your experience spans technology and digital recruitment, where you partner with senior leaders to solve business challenges through excellent hiring practices. Your natural initiative and commercial awareness will drive your use of data and feedback to enhance recruitment outcomes, managing multiple roles and projects simultaneously while coaching peers.

Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and an outstanding candidate journey are essential traits you will bring to this role.

Essential Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience managing end-to-end recruitment in tech, digital, data, or engineering contexts.
• Comprehensive knowledge of technology talent markets and proficiency in recruiting across various technical disciplines.
• Proven track record of building strong hiring manager partnerships to influence and achieve recruitment success.
• Skilled in direct sourcing methods, including LinkedIn Recruiter and talent-mapping tools, to effectively engage high-caliber candidates.
• Capability to handle multiple recruitment campaigns and critical hiring projects concurrently.
• Ability to interpret recruitment data and market intelligence to inform and improve hiring decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder communication, influencing, and advisory skills.
• Consistently delivering a superior candidate experience while maintaining recruitment speed and quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for roles across software engineering, product management, data science, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, or technology leadership.
• History of success within fast-paced and complex organizations.
• Participation in diversity, equity, and inclusion recruitment initiatives.
• Exposure to employer branding, talent attraction strategies, or strategic workforce planning.

Additional Information

Sainsbury's is dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment where all employees are valued. We support career progression and encourage exploration within evolving teams or other business areas. Our extensive benefits package includes colleague discounts (starting at 10% and increasing to 15% on specific days), a pension scheme, life insurance, performance-based bonuses up to 10% of salary, annual holiday allowance with options to buy more, season ticket loans, cycle to work schemes, health cash plans, pay advances, and access to discounts at various retailers. We also offer robust support with our employee assistance program and generous parental leave payments.