The purpose of this role is to support the talent acquisition team to attract, engage and hire the very best talent into the organisation. This is a service delivery role partnering closely with hiring managers, interviewers, candidates, recruiters, and other stakeholders to help ensure an exceptional candidate experience. This role has a strong focus on candidate communication, candidate management, and customer service.

Role Purpose

As Recruitment Data Strategist , you support the talent acquisition team to attract, engage and hire the very best talent into the organisation.

This role delivers key data driven insights to the UK TA & Commercial Leadership teams to drive better data led decisions/outcomes, report on talent trends and insights, and deliver accurate and robust reporting.

Your role covers all UK practice lines and functions, with a geographical focus on talent insights, reporting against key KPIs, sharing market intel and working with our Recruitment Marketing team and Practice Leads to inform on talent pipelining activities.  

Key Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of UK Practice talent requirements
• Work with Global TA insights and dentsu platforms, including LinkedIn, to deliver key market insights against priority job disciplines
• Produce high quality, high cadence, actionable reports and insights through accurate analytics using the suite of available dentsu tools
• Partner with Resource Management team to drive and inform TA activities through actionable reporting
• Inform DEI activity through relevant market intelligence and reporting
• Produce high quality weekly TA reporting to TA and Commercial leadership through development of PowerBI and other visualization tools
• Develop and maintain strategies and segments for different business areas: track the KPI performance and articulate reasons the trends and recommending improvement actions
• Work with colleagues across various disciplines across Analytics, Marketing, Strategy/Commercial and Partnerships to pull together comprehensive reporting and insights
• Produce strategic reviews and provide recommendations based on emerging trends
• Support and actively contribute to TA projects
• Embrace, demonstrate and be an advocate of dentsu’s culture and values including our Eight Ways and Sanpo Yoshi (Good for Business, Good for People, Good for Society)

Key Skills and Experience

• Analytical, with experience in collating large quantities of data and refining the same into clear and concise reports suitable for a senior audience.
• A very high level of Excel proficiency, particularly in the production of detailed and sophisticated corporate level reports.
• Developed reporting capability and internal communications of data and insight to continually measure and optimise business performance
• An understanding of regulatory and compliance adherence processes when working with data
• Demonstrable experience in obtaining market and talent insights to inform strategy and activities
• Detail oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
• A desire to understand the dentsu brand holistically, being a source of truth as candidates learn about who we are and how they can be a part of our vision
• A strong ability to communicate effectively and kindly
• Ability to problem-solve autonomously and collaboratively

This job description is a summary of the essential functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, and duties. The responsibilities, tasks, and duties of the jobholder might differ from those outlined in the job description. Other duties, as assigned by the supervisor, might be part of the job.

Dentsu does not discriminate against job applicants on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Experience stipulated in this job description serves as a guide only and all applications will be considered on their merits, irrespective of experience.

As part of our Diversity and Inclusion agenda, and as an Equal Opportunities employer, if you require reasonable adjustments during the selection process please engage directly with your Recruiter