Talent Acquisition Partner - Retail (Fixed Term 12 months)HR / People

Talent Acquisition Partner – Retail

This is a fixed term role for 12 months covering maternity leave with a start date needed of 1st February, there will be a requirement to be in Leeds 3 days per week.

“Find your role”

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll play a key role in delivering exceptional recruitment support for our retail business. You’ll manage end-to-end hiring for salaried roles across our stores in the South, ensuring we attract and secure the best talent to keep our business thriving. This role is hands-on, requiring strong sourcing skills, market insight, and the ability to engage passive candidates in a competitive market.

You’ll work closely with hiring managers to understand their needs, provide expert advice, and deliver a seamless candidate experience that reflects our brand values. From crafting compelling job adverts to headhunting for critical roles, you’ll be a trusted partner who helps shape our retail talent pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for salaried retail roles across multiple 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.

Let’s Find Out About You

Essential Skills

• Proven experience in end-to-end recruitment, ideally within retail or high-volume environments, we are very open-minded on background, but candidates from an in-house talent acquisition or agency recruitment team will certainly find synergy with this role
• 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 ATS systems and recruitment technology.
• Strong communication skills and a commitment to delivering an outstanding candidate experience.
• Knowledge of employment legislation and diversity best practices.
• You will possess genuine enthusiasm and curiosity for Talent Acquisition and a lifelong learning mentality to ensure you stay relevant in your field for your stakeholders.

Everything you'll love

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