Senior Resourcing Advisor

The Opportunity - Senior Resourcing Advisor

Ready to take the lead in shaping how a global manufacturing business attracts, engages, and hires brilliant talent? We’re looking for a Senior Resourcing Advisor who blends direct‑sourcing expertise with creative employer branding, strong data instincts, and a passion for delivering an outstanding candidate experience.

This is your chance to own your craft, influence stakeholders, and drive impactful talent strategies across professional, technical, and Emerging Talent hiring.

What You’ll Be Doing

Direct Sourcing & Talent Acquisition

• Lead proactive sourcing strategies across Engineering, Sales, Commercial, Operations, and specialist technical roles.
• Build talent pipelines through market mapping, search innovation, and creative outreach.
• Partner with hiring managers to shape demand, improve decision‑making, and raise resourcing capability.

Candidate Experience Champion

• Own the end‑to‑end candidate journey, ensuring every touchpoint is personal, consistent, and impactful.
• Drive best practice across communication, feedback, and interview experience.

Social Media & Employer Brand

• Create high‑impact social media content and campaigns that boost visibility, engagement, and quality applications.
• Collaborate with internal comms/marketing teams to strengthen storytelling and elevate the Employer brand.
• Track performance and use insights to refine content and attraction strategy.

Emerging Talent Campaign Leadership

• Lead the annual Emerging Talent programme from strategy and planning through to execution.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams, deliver inclusive processes, and deliver experiences that inspire early talent.

Data, Insights & Continuous Improvement

• Analyse recruitment performance, KPIs, and talent market trends to guide strategy and influence stakeholders.
• Identify and implement process improvements, enhancing speed, quality, and experience across the hiring lifecycle.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in in‑house resourcing/talent acquisition, ideally in technical or engineering‑led sectors.
• Proven ability in direct sourcing and headhunting for niche, professional, or technical roles.
• A passion for exceptional candidate experience and a track record of raising standards.
• Experience developing and executing social media talent attraction campaigns.
• Confidence interpreting data, metrics, and dashboards to drive decisions and improvements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and project leadership skills.
• Creativity, curiosity, and a continuous‑improvement mindset.

Why This Role?

• High visibility within a global organisation.
• The freedom to innovate and bring fresh ideas to life.
• A collaborative Resourcing Team with big ambitions.
• The chance to shape future talent, today and long‑term.

What happens next?

Ordinarily, our Resourcing Team reviews and shortlists CVs. If shortlisted, you’ll speak to one of our Recruiters to discuss the role further. Our interview process usually consists of an initial team’s interview followed by an in-person interview. We’ll keep in touch throughout the process but if you have any questions, please get in touch at recruitment@jcb.com 

What’s in it for you?

This is your chance to join a company that values expertise not only in rewards but also in real employee care. At JCB you don’t just get a competitive salary, 33 days’ holiday and access to our company pension—you can also use our onsite gym, in-house doctor and dentist. We have an ULEV car scheme available for our employees too. Then there’s the JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts with high street retailers. Feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme.

We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We’re committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair and inclusive. If you face any accessibility challenges with your online application and require additional support, you have the option of speaking to a member of our Resourcing Team who can support you to complete an application in an alternative format. If you would benefit from this support, please email recruitment@jcb.com, and a member of the team will be in touch.

Recruitment Agencies: JCB does not accept any speculative approaches to present candidates for advertised vacancies.