Overview of the role
As the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner for the Wholesale & Central Functions at Bestway Healthcare, you will play a strategic and hands-on role in shaping and delivering effective recruitment solutions. Working in close partnership with the People Partnering Team and senior business leaders, you’ll lead end-to-end talent acquisition efforts across multiple functions.
From identifying and attracting top talent to ensuring a smooth onboarding experience, you will drive recruitment strategies that align with business objectives while promoting a positive candidate journey and strengthening our employer brand.
Main Responsibility
Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Design and execute forward-thinking recruitment strategies aligned with organisational goals and workforce plans.
- Anticipate future hiring needs and proactively build talent pipelines.
End-to-End Recruitment
- Lead the full recruitment lifecycle—from role briefing and advertising through to interviews, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
- Ensure a seamless, engaging, and inclusive candidate experience throughout the process.
Stakeholder Management
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing insight into market trends, talent availability, and hiring best practices.
- Facilitate regular updates, feedback sessions, and alignment meetings with hiring managers.
Employer Branding
- Actively promote and represent the Bestway Healthcare employer brand to position the organisation as an employer of choice.
- Collaborate with internal teams to enhance candidate-facing content and messaging.
Candidate Sourcing
- Utilise diverse sourcing methods, including LinkedIn, job boards, employee referrals, and industry events.
- Develop and maintain talent pools for critical, niche, or hard-to-fill roles.
Compliance & Reporting
- Ensure all recruitment activities comply with employment legislation and internal policies.
- Track and analyse key recruitment metrics such as time-to-hire, quality of hire, and source effectiveness to inform continuous improvement.
Process Improvement
- Evaluate and refine recruitment processes and systems to enhance efficiency, reduce time-to-hire, and improve candidate satisfaction.
- Introduce tools and technology that support a data-driven, modern recruitment function.
Key knowledge and skills required for the role:
• Highly experienced in proactive attraction techniques including creation of passive and active candidate pools, headhunting, external market & competitor insights through to utilising internal engagement, EVP and employer brand opportunities to effectively promote Bestway Healthcare beyond the traditional job advert.
• Able to effectively engage with and coach stakeholders to deliver consistent hiring processes, candidate experiences and social channel presence both directly as well as through their direct reports.
• Strong MI and data analytical skills, adept at managing reporting, identifying key trends that inform and also raises awareness to risks to the business as well as providing solutions to those risks
• Excellent written and oral communication. Good IT, planning and organisational skills.
• 8 years of Talent Acquisition experience
• Budget management
The Ideal Candidate
Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
Package Description
- Competitive salaries
- Excellent training & development opportunities
- Paid Holidays
- Workplace pension scheme
- Staff Discount
- Travel Loans and more…..
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’
