Senior Technical Recruiter (Contract)

Role Overview:

You will will focus on delivery of hires predominately in the UK, partnering with local and international hiring managers to source the best talent in the EMEA region. You will be passionate about candidate experience and DE&I, taking pride in sourcing candidates from a diverse group of backgrounds to help our teams to pioneer in our industry. This is the perfect role for someone who enjoys building productive relationships quickly, with a mixed group of people to enable you to deliver on hires into our key growth areas.

Please note: this is a contingent worker position.

Remote working: the Talent Acquisition team spend Wednesdays in our office in Soho, London. Outside of Wednesdays, you can work remotely or go into the office depending on your preference.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ownership of recruitment across key technical areas of PlayStation
• Managing the recruitment process from brief to offer across permanent and fixed term requirements for your business areas.
• Partnering with hiring managers to support with attraction and selection of suitable candidates.
• Account management of recruitment agency suppliers for their dedicated business areas when needed.
• Directly and proactively source permanent hire candidates; you will also partner with a Sourcer to do this for some areas
• Work with managers to develop compelling job adverts that really resonate with prospective candidates.
• Work with the Talent Acquisition Coordinator to support hiring managers with interview bookings and candidate management through their hiring process.
• Manage the offer process and partner with HR Operations to ensure paperwork is generated correctly and efficiently
• Ambassador for PlayStation when promoting the business to candidates and agency suppliers.
• Ensure the ATS and recruitment reporting is regularly updated to aid with metrics i.e. sources, agency against direct, time to hire, time to offer, average cost per hire etc.
• Talent pooling and recycling candidates across the divisions. Championing silver medalist candidates to other departments.
• Attend and coordinate external careers fairs and events to promote the PlayStation brand.
• Support and coach on best practice interview techniques / process where required.
• Collaborating with your HR Business Partner to ensure collaborative, transparent relationship is achieved.
• Driving specific D&I activity and initiatives for recruiting by upskilling hiring managers and the Talent Acquisition team on best practice and ensuring data is tracked successfully.

What we are looking for:

• Personable, clear communicator who can partner with a variety of internal & external customers at all levels and build long lasting relationships.
• Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills who can work on their own initiative.
• Demonstrable experience and understanding of hiring within the tech industry
• Ability to prioritise by partnering with leaders to understand the urgency and need for hiring
• Can deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
• Strong resilience with a pragmatic approach
• Have a blended career background of both agency but majority of experience working in-house
• A sourcing champion with the ability to adapt your search methodology to the diverse hiring needs

Preferred Skills:

• Previous experience of working in a Talent Acquisition/ Recruitment department set up.
• EMEA based tech hiring experience
• Strong In-house experience of hiring tech, studio or engineering roles would be desirable
• Experience of partnering with hiring teams to promote diversity & Inclusion hiring campaigns or initiatives.