Talent Acquisition Advisor (FTC)

Vacancy - Talent Acquisition Advisor (FTC)

Are you excited by the opportunity to play a key role in helping us attract and hire diverse talent across all functions and locations? Do you have previous experience attracting talent to organisations, with a passion for and experience with direct sourcing? We are seeking a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join our busy Talent Team on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract to help us keep the world moving!

Your Role

In this role you will work collaboratively with hiring managers to develop a clear understanding of requirements, promote roles across a number of channels as well as proactively sourcing and engaging candidates across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn, job boards and social media. You will work with hiring teams to ensure all recruitment processes are efficient, effective and follow best practice. You will facilitate the end to end recruitment process, ensuring a streamlined and positive experience for both hiring managers and candidates. Working with hiring teams you will deliver tailored sourcing and selection strategies. Reviewing applications, you will screen applications and assess candidate suitability for the role. You will support and coach managers through recruitment processes, including assessment centres. Acting as a Peel Ports Ambassador, you will attend careers events and promote Peel Ports as an employer of choice.

What you'll bring

You will have previous recruitment experience (either in-house or agency), alongside:

• Strong background in candidate sourcing, including using LinkedIn Recruiter and Job Boards
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships
• Track record of networking and developing relationships with a diverse range of candidates across a variety of specialisms
• Ability to manage multiple recruitment processes at a time in a fast paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to write compelling job adverts for a variety of roles
• Strong IT skills, previous experience with Applicant Tracking Systems is essential, ideally SuccessFactors but not essential

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
• Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
• Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!

Closing date for receipt of completed applications is 1st September 2025.