Temporary Resource Lead

International Logistics Group
GB - Northamptonshire - Northampton
January 14, 2025
Administration

Temporary Resource Lead

Location: Brackmills Industrial Estate, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4, UK

Salary: Circa £35,000 per annum, depending on experience

Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week (9:00 AM - 6:00 PM or 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

About us:

We’re an award-winning, market-leading 3PL specialising in high-quality order fulfilment and delivery services. ILG customers are premium brands, many in the beauty, fashion and wellbeing sectors. ILG is a people business - we invest in training and development, recognising and rewarding our people’s achievements and creating opportunities for them to progress within our business. So, if you want to develop an exciting career, learn from a friendly team and realise your full potential in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you.

About the Role:

We’re on the lookout for a Temporary Resource Lead to join us on a permanent basis and take charge of our temporary staffing strategy and agency relationships. This is your chance to drive efficiency, ensure our teams are always fully staffed, and play a vital role in the smooth running of our operations.

You’ll report directly to the Recruitment Manager and work closely with internal teams and external agencies to tackle last-minute staffing needs, monitor performance, and ensure we meet operational targets. From onboarding new temps to handling supplier performance and recruitment projects, you’ll be the go-to expert making sure our business runs smoothly.

If you thrive in a high-energy environment, love solving problems, and are passionate about resource management, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Be Doing:
• Managing Agency Relationships: Build strong partnerships with staffing agencies to ensure performance meets our operational needs, while also identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Coordinating Staffing Needs: Collaborate with operational teams to meet staffing requirements, ensuring shifts are covered and temp staff are onboarded/offboarded seamlessly.
• Tracking Performance: Keep a close eye on staffing metrics (attendance, fill rates, etc.), resolve issues quickly, and ensure that payroll and invoicing are on time.
• Collaborating & Communicating: Be the main point of contact for any staffing-related queries, keeping everyone—from internal teams to external agencies—aligned and informed.
• Ensuring Compliance & Best Practice: Make sure we’re always compliant with UK employment law and company policies, while driving diversity and inclusion in our staffing approach.
• Recruitment Projects & Early Careers: Lead recruitment for casual/seasonal workers and early career roles (apprentices, graduates, etc.), while identifying passive talent for key positions.

What We’re Looking For:
• Experience: Proven track record in staffing coordination, resource management, or agency management, ideally in a logistics or fast-paced environment.
• Organisational Skills: Exceptional at managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving setting with a problem-solving mindset.
• Proactive & Resilient: You stay calm under pressure and can handle last-minute staffing changes with ease.
• Tech-Savvy: Comfortable using workforce management tools and Microsoft Office (specifically Excel) to track metrics, report on performance, and drive data-driven decisions.
• Knowledgeable: Strong understanding of UK employment law and best practices in recruitment.
• Excellent Communicator: Have the ability to build relationships, negotiate effectively, and communicate clearly with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Travel Flexibility: Willing to travel to other ILG sites as needed.

Benefits:
• Discretionary company bonus scheme
• Following successful probation period opportunity for hybrid working in line with ILG policy up to 50/50 remote / office working
• Pension, Life Assurance, Healthshield Cash Plan and Discount Perks
• 22 days’ holiday (plus Bank Holidays) increasing to 25 days after 2 complete holiday years, with the option to buy/sell holiday
• Birthday leave
• Free on-site parking, with electric car charging at certain locations
• Range of employee awards
• Regular social events
• Employee assistance programme to promote mental health wellbeing
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Please be aware we will be considering applications as we receive them and arranging interviews accordingly. Depending on the volume of applications we receive we may close this advert ahead of the advertised closing date.

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