Recruitment & Governance Lead

Role

The Recruitment & Governance Lead is an experienced senior internal recruiter responsible for delivering permanent recruitment for UK roles whilst coordinating recruitment activity across Europe. The role also provides expert governance, control, and strategic oversight of a diverse population of agency workers and contractors.

Office hours are 08:00-16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break, and 08:00-13:00 on Friday. Flex time start of 07:00-11:00 is available when there is no business requirement. Work from home can be requested up to two days per week if there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Main Responsibilities Recruitment

• Deliver end to end recruitment for UK based roles, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, offers, and onboarding administration.
• Coordinate and consolidate regional recruitment data and insights across Europe, partnering with local HR to ensure accurate and timely understanding of recruitment activity.
• Ensure all job vacancies follow the internal approval process and communicate outcomes to relevant departments.
• Review employment legislation changes to ensure governance around recruitment processes.
• Evaluate new job descriptions to appoint a job grade per Honda's job grading structure and manage the job description library across Europe.
• Provide expert guidance on UK recruitment practices and market conditions, driving data and analytics to provide insights into turnover through exit interviews and market pay rates for contractors or industry specialism.
• Monitor, analyse, and report on recruitment and workforce metrics, including time to hire, cost per hire, demographic data, and contractor populations.
• Develop dashboards and reporting to support strategic decision making and continuous improvement.
• Support EU Pay Transparency requirements during recruitment offers for permanent and non permanent roles.
• Lead the tender process for recruitment agency contract renewal.
• Own and oversee the probation review process, ensuring objectives are set and outcomes completed within defined timeframes.

Governance

• Provide governance oversight for a large pool of agency and contractors, including usage controls, contractual compliance, onboarding, and extension of contracts.
• Lead corporate governance controls across recruitment and workforce engagement.
• Lead internal and external audits, ensuring processes align with corporate governance frameworks and evidence is audit ready.
• Identify governance or control gaps and drive continuous improvement to processes, documentation, and compliance consistency.
• Provide oversight of diversity and inclusion metrics within recruitment, ensuring alignment with internal objectives and regulatory expectations.

Qualifications, skills and experience: Required and Desirable Required

• Significant internal recruitment experience.
• Strong experience in recruitment delivery and governance.
• Highly competent in structured interviewing, recruitment administration, and process control.
• Experience working with recruitment statistics and metrics, including time to hire and pipeline reporting.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to maintain audit ready documentation.
• Confident stakeholder engagement to positively challenge.
• A data driven mindset and demonstrable experience interpreting data and making recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.

Desirable

• Previous experience in managing external audit processes or corporate governance requirements.
• Knowledge of IR35 and contingent labour legislation, with experience implementing compliant governance frameworks.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety governance.
• Experience with job evaluation frameworks.
• Experience of using SAP or similar systems.
• Experience working in pan European or multi country environments.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual. At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.