Senior Recruiter - Corporate Functions
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: People
Closing date: 02 September 2026
Requisition ID: 400078329
Why join us
At Sainsbury's, people are at the heart of everything we do, and as a Senior Recruiter you'll play a key role in shaping the talent that drives our business forward.
This is an exciting opportunity to partner with some of our most influential corporate functions, with a primary focus on Finance and HR. You'll be trusted to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influence hiring decisions, and help attract exceptional talent into critical roles that make a real difference across the organisation.
You'll join a supportive, collaborative recruitment team that values fresh ideas, embraces flexibility, and is passionate about delivering an outstanding candidate experience. Whether you're helping a future Finance leader make their next career move or building talent pipelines for emerging business needs, you'll have the opportunity to make a visible impact while continuing to develop your own career.
What you'll do
As a Senior Recruiter, you'll be responsible for end-to-end recruitment across our Finance and HR business areas, partnering closely with hiring managers to identify, attract and secure the very best talent.
You'll act as a trusted advisor, bringing market insight, talent intelligence and recruitment expertise to every conversation. You'll help hiring managers navigate a competitive talent market, challenging thinking where needed and recommending innovative attraction strategies to secure diverse, high-quality candidates.
Candidate experience will be at the centre of everything you do. From first conversation through to offer acceptance, you'll ensure every candidate has a positive, engaging and inclusive experience that reflects our employer brand.
You'll also have the opportunity to lead and support recruitment projects that go beyond individual vacancies. This could include building strategic talent pipelines, delivering hiring campaigns, or helping shape new ways of working across the recruitment function. Using data, market trends and candidate feedback, you'll continuously look for opportunities to improve how we attract and hire talent.
Who you are
You're a passionate in-house recruiter who thrives on building relationships, influencing stakeholders and delivering exceptional hiring outcomes.
You'll bring experience recruiting for corporate functions and enjoy partnering with senior leaders to solve business challenges through great hiring. You love getting under the skin of a function, understanding what great talent looks like, and finding creative ways to attract it.
You're naturally proactive and commercially minded, using market insight, recruitment data and candidate feedback to inform your approach. You're equally comfortable managing multiple vacancies, leading recruitment projects, and coaching others by sharing your expertise and best practices.
Most importantly, you'll be someone who genuinely cares about candidate experience, diversity and inclusion, and creating great outcomes for both candidates and hiring managers.
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end in-house recruitment across professional or corporate functions.
- Previous experience supporting a corporate business area, with direct recruitment experience within Finance and/or HR functions highly desirable.
- Demonstrable experience building strong partnerships with hiring managers and stakeholders to influence hiring decisions and deliver successful outcomes.
- Proven success using direct sourcing techniques, including LinkedIn Recruiter and other market mapping tools, to identify and engage high-quality talent.
- Experience managing multiple recruitment campaigns, projects or business-critical hiring initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of recruitment data, market intelligence and talent insights, using these to drive decision-making and improve hiring outcomes.
- A track record of delivering an exceptional candidate experience while balancing pace, quality and stakeholder expectations.
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" We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply)."
