About us:
We are AMS. AMS is a global total workforce solutions firm founded in 1996. We enable organisations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, reshaping, and optimising workforces. We do this through talent acquisition and contingent workforce management, internal mobility and skills development, and talent and technology advisory services. Our solutions are delivered by our 4500+ experts who live our passionate, bold, and authentic values. The ultimate aim is to help clients around the world, including 100+ blue-chip companies, create workforces that are fluid, resilient, diverse, and differentiated. We call this true workforce dexterity—and we’re here to help you achieve it. https://www.weareams.com/
The Role:
Are you looking for your next job in employer brand, do you have agency experience, then think about us, a brand and attraction agency that is part of AMS.
Our agency within AMS looks at things differently because we have a USP in that, out of the people who work here 50% have had many years’ experience working agency side and 50% have been the client – so it’s not the usual agency viewpoint. As a result you will be working alongside Employer Brand experts who really know their stuff, about how and where to be innovative. This culture allows us to service our clients as a true partner. If this sounds like the way you would like to work, read on!
What we do:
We develop and provide powerful and differentiated solutions to enable our clients to attract top talent. Our clients are big global clients across a myriad of sectors.
Our growing and high-achieving team deliver innovative marketing techniques for clients in order to build recruitment and attraction strategies throughout the candidate lifecycle. We have a team of creative experts and media specialists to make the entire candidate journey run on all cylinders for our clients. Our focus is on:
- Knowing talent and where and how to reach them – We excel at candidate research and putting ourselves in the shoes of the talent our clients want to attract.
- Bringing the right mix of traditional media and marketing, tracking it and presenting it back in a meaningful way to our clients
What you can expect to do in this role:
Your role as an Employer Brand Strategist is to grow both existing and new clients, and strengthen how we deliver employer brand and recruitment marketing capabilities to our clients.
Duties to include, but not limited to
- Create new or refine existing go-to-market consulting solution offerings
- Manage client relationships / statements of work; oversee and take accountability for delivery
- Project manage and deliver projects
- Understand and apply commercial knowledge to drive performance of program of work including understanding of wider AMS business considerations
- Drive a culture of service excellence and client focus
- Take account P&L responsibility including forecasting and sales pipeline and deliver against growth targets
What qualities and skills are required?
- Experience of project management and working agency side
- Deep subject matter expertise, thinking, approaches and methodologies, developing these in line with the market and latest innovations
- Demonstrable ability to use market intelligence and analyse market trends to provide insights both internally and to clients
- Wider understanding of the full talent lifecycle and how the different consulting specialties fit together (Tech, Ops, Assessment & Selection, Diversity & Inclusion, Strategic Workforce Planning, Research etc.)
- Strong consulting skills and mindset, working with clients to accurately diagnose and develop comprehensive, commercially viable solutions with clearly defined ROI for client and TC
- Experience of developing and delivering complex projects on time and to budget
- Experience of managing internal and client expectations and communication throughout the project lifecycle, delivering an excellent client stakeholder experience, building trust and credibility
- An effective communicator. Highly persuasive / credible, building trust quickly and effectively. Excellent influencing skills - able to use sophisticated communication, persuasion and consulting skills with senior clients/colleagues
- Experience managing a P&L with a strong understanding of internal and client financial drivers
- Experience of developing and managing cost estimates against agreed budgets and margins
Who we’re looking for:
Above all, we want to see you be a true partner to our clients with a real passion for employer branding. You’ll demonstrate a deep-level expertise in developing and delivering employer brand strategies and processes that improve outcomes for clients (such as decreased time to hire and increased quality of hire, etc). Our clients will love your ability to use your consulting skills to take client data, market intelligence and your analysis of emerging trends to provide insights that help them gain competitive advantage.
What we offer:
- Stretching, challenging work
- A vibrant, diverse and collaborative culture
- Flexible working – home working available
- A competitive reward and benefits package including a profit-share plan.
We're a fast-growing, equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
AMS is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community
Please let us know if you need an adjustment or adaptation at any stage to support you during the recruitment journey.