Team – Talent Acquisition
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth, London or Stockport Office. 35 hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
1. Strong stakeholder engagement and influence
2. Experience recruiting at a mid to senior level
3. Confident strategic thinking in a competitive market
What this role is all about:
At Vitality, we’re here to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. It’s what makes us different and shapes the way we think, lead, and hire.
You’ll join a purpose led brand where people care deeply about what they do, support each other to do their best work, and understand the value of great hiring.
Sitting within our Talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence, you’ll have the chance to shape how we attract talent, build strong relationships across the business and be part of a global team, that is always looking to improve. This is an opportunity for someone who can combine pace with quality, insight with action and stakeholder influence with a genuinely brilliant candidate experience. If that sounds like the kind of environment where you’d thrive, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Actions
4. Lead end to end hiring across a broad portfolio of roles, bringing a strategic, high-quality approach from brief to offer
5. Champion a candidate experience that is thoughtful, inclusive, well-paced, and reflective of the Vitality brand at every stage
6. Use market insight, data, and judgement to influence decisions, manage expectations, and help leaders secure the best talent in competitive markets
7. Build strong relationships across our globally based People teams and business leadership, to deliver a connected and commercially aware recruitment service
8. Proactively source and engage diverse talent, using creative search techniques and long-term pipeline thinking for harder to fill and business-critical roles
9. Contribute to the continuous improvement of our recruitment processes, tools, and ways of working so that we keep raising the bar on quality, efficiency and experience
What do you need to thrive?
10. Credibility and presence, you can build confidence quickly with mid to senior stakeholders and are comfortable influencing at pace
11. Commercial and strategic thinking, you understand how hiring supports business performance and can align recruitment activity to broader priorities
12. Strong end to end Talent Acquisition expertise, you bring experience managing varied roles and delivering quality outcomes in a fast-moving environment
13. The confidence to challenge constructively, you know how to ask the right questions, shape thinking, and keep standards high
14. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, you connect well with people, communicate with clarity, and create trust through your approach
15. A passion for exceptional experience, you care deeply about delivering a recruitment journey that works for candidates, hiring managers, and colleagues alike
16. Alignment with the Vitality purpose and values, you bring energy, curiosity, and a people first mindset to the way you work and partner with others
17. Confidence in using and exploring AI, emerging technology and trends to evolve our insights, sourcing strategy, and recruitment best practice; for better hiring outcomes and an exceptional personalised candidate experience
So, what’s in it for you?
18. Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
19. A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
20. Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
21. Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
22. Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
23. Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
24. Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
25. Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
26. Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
27. Give you the space to try, fail and learn
28. Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
29. Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
30. Be there for you when you need us
31. Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.