Job title: Junior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Working location: Kendal (hybrid)

Working Hours: Monday- Friday, 8 am- 4 pm

Salary: up to £32,000 per annum, depending on experience

About us

Join one of Europe’s fastest-growing nutrition success stories.

Kendal Nutricare creates world-class nutrition for every stage of life — from Kendamil infant and toddler formula to Kendalife adult nutrition. We’re a family-owned, purpose-driven business with big global ambitions.

In 2025, we were ranked the UK’s fastest-growing food and drink company, with Kendamil now one of the fastest-growing baby brands in the world, the No. 1 Organic formula in both the UK and the USA, and available in 40+ countries (and counting).

As the only British infant formula manufacturer, we’re proud to produce our award-winning products here in the UK using British full-cream milk, with no palm oil or unnecessary additives — trusted by families worldwide.

We’re on an exciting path – join us!

The role

We are looking for a motivated and proactive Junior Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our expanding team. This is a hands-on recruitment role, ideally suited to someone with experience in talent acquisition or recruitment, either within an in-house environment or a recruitment agency.

Reporting to the Global Talent Acquisition Partner, you will support the end-to-end recruitment process, partnering closely with hiring managers and candidates to deliver an exceptional hiring experience. You will play a key role in attracting, sourcing, assessing, and securing top talent across a variety of business functions, helping the organisation meet its current and future hiring needs.

What you’ll be doing

• Assist the Global Talent Acquisition Partner with end-to-end recruitment activities for a variety of positions across the business.
• Work with hiring managers and the Global Talent Acquisition Partner to understand hiring needs and support effective recruitment strategies.
• Draft, review, and advertise job vacancies across appropriate channels.
• Proactively source candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, networking, referrals, and talent mapping activities.
• Screen applications and conduct initial candidate interviews.
• Coordinate interviews and provide a seamless recruitment experience for candidates and hiring teams.
• Maintain regular communication with candidates throughout the recruitment process.
• Support offer management, salary benchmarking, and onboarding activities.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for future hiring needs.
• Track recruitment metrics and provide regular updates to the Global Talent Acquisition Partner and stakeholders.
• Ensure recruitment activities are carried out in line with right-to-work, fair recruitment and equality requirements, and company policies.
• Support employer branding initiatives and promote the organisation as an employer of choice.
• Attend careers fairs, networking events, and recruitment campaigns where required.

What you’ll need

• Proven, hands-on recruitment or talent acquisition experience (in-house or agency), covering the full recruitment lifecycle from sourcing through to offer.
• Experience supporting multiple vacancies simultaneously.
• Experience working to recruitment performance measures such as time-to-hire and cost-per-hire.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems (ATS) and recruitment platforms.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Desirable

• Experience recruiting within manufacturing, FMCG, engineering, technical, or commercial environments.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Knowledge of recruitment-related legislation (such as right to work and equality in hiring) and best recruitment practices.
• Experience supporting employer branding initiatives

We offer to all our employees

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• A pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance at 2 x basic salary*
• Free parking*
• Subsidised breakfast
• Free gym membership*
• Health Cash Plan
• Bereavement leave
• Company events
• Health & wellbeing programme