In this role, you will be responsible leading the entire recruitment process and closely partnering with HR, Business and Recruiting colleagues in order identify, to qualify and attract the best talent for adidas.
As the Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will focus on recruitment mandates for Europe Retail Stores, in addition to driving strategic talent acquisition topics within Europe Retail. You will support Retail leadership teams in the recruitment process within their own teams.
As a Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will be responsible for managing the entire recruitment process from sourcing, screening, interviewing, to offer stage. You will have a true passion for engaging with candidates and hiring teams and delivering exceptional candidate experience and recruitment services.
Your business acumen, passion for recruiting and a genuine commitment to thinking outside of the box are core skills needed in this role.
In your role, you will partner closely with your hiring teams to develop functional recruiting strategies and act as an expert recruiting partner to HR and business within Europe retail.
You will leverage adidas' local sourcing hubs and work closely with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and roles to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
Maintaining an 'always on' approach you will continuously utilize various channels to attract the best talent including proactive outreach to passive candidates for every search, proactive outreach and passive candidates.
MANCHESTER:
You'll be joining our Stockport Head office, home to 18 showrooms, our Conference Centre, staff Wellness Hub, a truly state-of-the-art gym - fully loaded with Peloton bikes & every piece of gym equipment you can imagine. An indoor astroturf pitch, chat boxes & creative corners creative spaces. Our Stockport team consists of over 350 adidas employees, working across Sports Marketing, Brand, Visual Merchandising, Marketing Activations, Culture Marketing, Sales, P, Communities, Digital Sales, & Trend.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.
* Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness (if needed) in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
* Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
* Screening resumes and conducting initial phone screens to assess qualifications as well as suitability for role, followed by in-depth interviews evaluating skills, experience and culture add.
* Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support.
* Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
* Continuously identify new candidate pools and leverage existing resources and various channels, such as social media, job boards, referrals and networking, to proactively identify passive candidates to create awareness and proactively reach out to them.
* Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and frequently update them on the status of the process.
* Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy.
* Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
* Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.
* Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.
* Lead additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
* Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners of all levels to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a strategy on effective recruitment activities for positions within your area of responsibility.
* Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
* Support retail teams with TA upskilling, trainings, best practices, hiring events, assessment centers, toolkits roll out.
* In partnership with HR and Legal, be an advocate for Retail leadership to ensure all interviewing and hiring practices are aligned with TA policy and local and federal regulations.
* Drive strategic talent strategies with Retail Leadership in partnership with HR to help drive proactive building of candidate pipelines within retail stores and teams.
* Actively participate in retail events including the following but limited to: Retail Sales Meetings, Store Visits, Hiring Events, District and Regional market meetings.
* Participate in onboarding trainings for any new hires within Retail leadership to conduct training on TA topics.
* Ability to flex schedule based on business demand to accommodate hiring needs.
* Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions, recommending improvements and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
* Apply and adapt broader talent acquisition strategies (employer branding, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) within your designated function or market.
* Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.
Key Relationships:
* Human Resources Business Partners
* Broader Human Resources Business Partners
* Retail Leadership
* Broader Talent Acquisition and Talent teams
Measures of success:
* Speed of hire
* Candidate and hiring manager experience
* Diversity of hire
* Internal hire ratio
* Quality of hire
* Proactive sourcing and talent pool conversions
Qualifications:
* Minimum of 4-6 years' experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).
* Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Retail business strongly preferred.
* Industry experience and deep knowledge of the footwear, apparel and/or retail industry.
* Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company.
* Experience working with vendors and managing relationships and driving results through collaboration
* Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals.
* Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.
* International experience, having worked on projects in multiple geographies.
* Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills in English + local language
Why adidas?
* Leading pension scheme, performance related bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, Bupa health insurance & Westfield cash plan, generous employee discount and world-class gym facilities on-site at Manchester HQ or Gym contributions for our London colleagues.
AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE'S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.
COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company's standards.
RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.
AT ADIDAS, WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT EMBEDDING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) INTO OUR CULTURE AND TALENT PROCESSES GIVES OUR EMPLOYEES A SENSE OF BELONGING AND OUR BRAND A REAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.
– CULTURE STARTS WITH PEOPLE, IT STARTS WITH YOU –
BY RECRUITING TALENT AND DEVELOPING OUR PEOPLE TO REFLECT THE RICH DIVERSITY OF OUR CONSUMERS AND COMMUNITIES, WE FOSTER A CULTURE OF INCLUSION THAT ENGAGES OUR EMPLOYEES AND AUTHENTICALLY CONNECTS OUR BRAND WITH OUR CONSUMERS.
JOB TITLE:
Recruitment Partner, Talent Acquisition Retail, Stockport
BRAND:
LOCATION:
Stockport
TEAM:
People & Culture
STATE:
COUNTRY/REGION:
GB
CONTRACT TYPE:
Full time
NUMBER:
534352
DATE:
Sep 17, 2025