Santander Bank

STEM Specialist Recruiter | S3 | P&C | Milton Keynes

Country: United Kingdom

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Are you passionate about creating market-leading talent experiences? We’re building a brand-new in-house Talent Acquisition team at Santander UK, and we’re looking for passionate recruitment experts to help us internalise and elevate our hiring experience. This is your opportunity to drive change, shape our recruitment processes, and contribute to building the workforce of the future.

Here, your expertise won’t just fill roles—it will shape careers, influence business growth, this is a unique opportunity to join at a pivotal time, shaping the future of talent, driving value beyond hiring and contributing to a market leading employee experience across the organisation.

As a STEM & specialist Recruiter within the Talent Experience team at Santander UK, you will play a pivotal role in acquiring top-tier talent to meet the ever-evolving needs of our organization. Your responsibility will be to identify, attract, and hire exceptional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) professionals who will support the Bank's strategic workforce planning and help drive innovation. This role will require you to provide an end to end vacancy management service (including sourcing). You will work closely with hiring managers, strategic people partners, and other key stakeholders to ensure a seamless recruitment process that contributes to the development and career growth of our employees. The role is designed to support the competitive talent marketplace and ensure the right development support is in place for both new hires and current employees.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience in recruitment with a strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment processes – ideally with experience for recruiting STEM hires.
• Experience in developing and executing talent attraction strategies to build pipelines for current and future hiring needs, including leveraging digital platforms, networking and targeted campaigns
• Excellent communication skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage and influence candidates and stakeholders effectively
• Skilled at building and maintaining relationships with hiring managers, candidates and external partners
• Capable of working in a fast paced environment, adapting to changing priorities and solving challenges proactively.

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Experience managing multiple requisitions with competing priorities—organised, agile, and solution-oriented.
• Creative flair for building targeted attraction campaigns and managing the candidate journey end to end.
• Confidence using data and recruitment tech tools to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement.
• A passion for delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

What else you need to know:

This role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you:

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk.