Talent Acquisition Manager – Food & Beverage

Oak View Group (OVG) is the world’s leading arena development, management, and hospitality company founded in 2015 by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff to positively disrupt business as usual. As the largest developer of sports and entertainment facilities in the world, OVG prioritises the way we do business focusing on making long-term investments in our people and our planet.

OVG have completed seven arenas, with many more in development, including Co-op Live, with more to be announced in the future.

Co-op Live is in a joint venture partnership with City Football Group and we are proud to work with Co-op as our Naming Rights Partner.

For more information – Oak View Group

We’re on a mission to create the best live music experience in the UK.

Co-op Live will offer a food and beverage hospitality service that will put us head and shoulders above the crowd, as we welcome over 23,500 fans and amazing artists to taste the delicious food and drinks unique to the space in Manchester.

With 32 amazing bars and restaurants and 12 premium lounges and clubs – we’re going to be delivering an exceptional hospitality service for the people of Manchester and beyond. On the menu will be great food, seasoned with world class service and all with a planet friendly vibe in the heart of our vibrant community.

For more information – Co-op Live

As we gear up to opening our doors, we’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Manager. To lead and develop the exciting recruitment strategy at Co-op Live, attracting the very best food and beverage talent through various recruitment platforms and community partnerships, supporting us in creating the best live music experience in the UK. Accountable for organising and managing the recruitment process ensuring the highest calibre people are recruited and placed into the correct positions, meeting all the necessary legal requirements that allow them to work at Co-op Live. To also focus on recruiting entry level candidates who have a natural flair for our incredible hospitality industry and enjoying watching them grow in our arena.

• Develop, deliver, and lead on the recruitment strategy to onboard the very best candidates for our exciting and varied roles.
• Use our market-leading applicant tracking system that provides full automation and a first-class onboarding experience for candidates.
• To lead on and deliver increased attraction of diverse and underrepresented candidate groups.
• To develop and execute bespoke recruitment campaigns using the full range of recruitment platforms as necessary to attract the best talent.
• To attract, design and deliver careers fayres and recruitment assessment centres for large volume candidate pools across varied roles.
• To build relationships with community stakeholders to identify opportunities for upskilling, attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, improving social mobility.
• To develop data intelligence to identify trends that supports successful attraction strategies.
• To manage the use of external agencies, creating preferred supplier contracts and managing agency spend.
• To manage the recruitment team on individual and volume recruitment targets, liaising with contract partners for resource and training requirements.
• Accountable for ensuring all workers have the required legal documentation prior to commencing work – right to work documentation all to be correct and stored appropriately for audit purposes.
• Reduce staff turnover and recruitment costs by developing and delivering retention techniques.
• Liaise with Heads of department to assess recruitment needs for any current or upcoming developments.
• Accountable for working with relevant marketing colleagues to produce a recruitment marketing strategy, ahead of large campaigns, that is used as a live working document both pre and during the financial year. 

What Co-op Live will give to you

Alongside the benefit of working with an awesome team of talented people, we want to help you get the best out of your work and have a work life balance.

• Provide you with development opportunities and regular one to ones
• Key objectives for you to succeed in your role
• Your general wellbeing is at the forefront of our minds, we understand the importance of balancing work and personal commitments
• This is an office base role, it’s really important we work together to mobilise the biggest music and live entertainment arena in the UK
• Working 5 out of 7 days – this may include evenings and weekends

Salary: £40,000 – £50,000

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Employer pension scheme
• Private Health Care scheme – Vitality
• Life Assurance 4 x basic salary
• Eyecare vouchers
• WeCare Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your family 24hrs, 7 days per week when you need the service
• Company sick pay scheme
• Enhanced family friendly benefits
• Office fruit & snacks
• Team social events

Essential:

• Experience of managing successful end-to-end volume recruitment campaign.
• Experience working with community partnership groups and demonstrate positive impacts.
• Experience of recruiting for Food & Beverage positions.
• Experience driving diversity & inclusion in the recruitment process.
• Management of data, identifying trends to drive improved recruitment processes.
• Strong customer service and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong relationship building and influencing skills.
• Strong tenacity, results focused competence.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office packages.
• Good understanding of employment law and right to work document checks.
• Ability to source the right candidates for the job.

Desirable:

• Recruitment qualification is an advantage.
• Proven experience presenting to large groups.
• Experience of music & entertainment industry and/or large arena recruitment.

Closing date for applications: 22 June 2023

Our venue is for the fans, the artists, everyone! Attracting a diverse workforce which reflects our local community is what will make our venue the best music venue in the UK!

We understand that to continue positively disrupting the sports and live entertainment industry, we need a diverse team to help us do it. We also believe that inclusivity drives innovation, strengthens our people, improves our service, and raises our excellence.

We are committed to creating a great place to work amplifying voices from all different backgrounds. There is something for everyone at Co-op Live, come and get involved.

If you do require any additional support or reasonable adjustments to support your application, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure you have everything you need. We will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the required skills necessary to fulfil the role.