Direct Recruiter (Sourcing Specialist) - 12 Month FTC
Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.
About the Role:
The role of a Direct Recruiter is to support the resourcing process to deliver agreed targets for roles within assigned business areas, ensuring that the right candidates are recruited at the right time, at the right price.
Partnering with the Recruitment Partners and Internal Stakeholders, the role holder will provide consultative and transactional support to deliver a comprehensive and value-add service, covering the recruitment of all local hires, ensuring all resourcing activity effectively communicated and aligned to the client’s brand.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Support the Recruitment Partners with initiating contact with Hiring Managers to establish precise hiring needs and establishing a solid understanding of the function in which the vacancy sits in order to ensure the right talent is sourced
- Managing internal mobility activities. Liaising with internal candidates and partnering with the Recruitment Partners to run a smooth internal recruitment process.
- Post job vacancies to internal / external job sites via the client’s ATS
- Reviewing all incoming CV’s and applications for suitability to the roles being managed
- Proactively search job boards, LinkedIn, social media mediums, to attract and connect with active and passive candidates who may be suitable for the roles being managed
- Create candidate longlists and support in the selection process to provide hiring managers with suitable candidate shortlists
- Build candidate pipelines for the high-volume roles across business segments
- Responsible for selecting Pre-Screening Questions for the appropriate selection process, relevant to the role
- Ensuring the ATS’ data is always correct in order to ensure reports generated are accurate and up to date
- Focusing wherever possible on the sourcing of internal talent first and foremost for open vacancies challenging stakeholders if they are not selecting Internal applicants
- Initial screening of incoming CV’s
- Ad hoc projects as required
Who you are:
- Good experience of sourcing and sourcing for local candidates - Ideally within a banking or financial area
- Able to deal with high recruitment volumes as well as more specialist vacancies, managing multiple vacancies at any time across a variety of disciplines
- Understanding and some experience of developing sourcing strategies and managing multiple recruitment channels to deliver recruitment targets within budget.
- Be proactive and great team player
- Experience with internal mobility activities is highly desirable
- Sound communication and influencing skills
- Customer-focused approach
- Track record of working in a very organized way, multi-tasking, prioritising, managing data, and setting and achieving deadlines
- Experience of analysing recruitment management information and using this to identify and initiate improvements
- Knowledge of / exposure to relevant employment legislation (e.g. data protection)
Benefits:
- Enjoy a competitive salary that rewards your expertise.
- Stay covered with private medical insurance.
- Elevate your skills with industry-leading training and development programs.
- Follow clear progression plans designed to help you achieve your career goals.
- Be part of a sociable, supportive, and celebratory team culture that values connection.
- Embrace flexible working options to create the perfect work-life balance.
- Explore international travel and exciting global work opportunities.
- Make an impact through meaningful volunteering initiatives.
- Earn your place on our exclusive annual global incentive weekend, celebrating top performers!
As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.
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About the job
Contract Type: Temporary Interim Management
Specialism: Recruitment
Focus: Consultant
Industry: Insurance
Salary: Competitive Package
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Associate
Language: English - Professional working
Location: Edinburgh
CONTRACTORJob Reference: 9064
Date posted: 11 November 2026
Consultant: Nic Farmer
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