Talent Acquisition Partner - Retail (6 Months FTC)

Talent Acquisition Partner – Retail (6 Months FTC)

The role requires presence in Leeds three days a week.

Role Overview

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll deliver end‑to‑end recruitment support. Your responsibilities include sourcing and hiring Retail roles, attracting top talent and maintaining a thriving workforce. You’ll partner with hiring man agers to understand needs, craft compelling job adverts, engage passive candidates, and provide expert recruitment advice.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end‑to‑end recruitment for roles across our Retail locations.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand requirements and deliver tailored hiring solutions.
• Use advanced sourcing techniques, market mapping, and competitor analysis to identify and engage passive talent.
• Create job adverts and manage candidate attraction through multiple channels.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Maintain compliance with recruitment policies and diversity initiatives.
• Provide insights on market trends and talent availability to support workforce planning.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience in end‑to‑end recruitment, ideally within retail Head Office environments.
• Strong headhunting and sourcing skills, with the ability to engage passive candidates.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and deliver against tight deadlines.
• Familiarity with Workday and recruitment technology preferred.
• Strong communication skills and a commitment to delivering an outstanding candidate experience.
• Knowledge of employment legislation and diversity best practices.
• Genuine enthusiasm and curiosity for Talent Acquisition and a lifelong learning mentality.

Benefits

• Discretionary company bonus.
• Company pension up to 7% matched.
• 15% colleague discount in store and online.
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans, and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks to celebrate differences and foster inclusion.
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for fertility treatments.

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To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves