Recruitment & Governance Lead

Honda Motor Europe Ltd

. Deliver end to end recruitment, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, offers, and onboarding administration for UK based roles .

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeBracknell • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deliver end to end recruitment, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, offers, and onboarding administration for UK based roles
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, communicating outcomes to relevant departments to enable recruitment activity to commence
Review employment legislation changes to ensure governance around recruitment processes
Evaluate new job descriptions to appoint a job grade, as per Honda’s job grading structure, and manage the job description library across Europe
Provide expert guidance on UK recruitment practices and market conditions to drive 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 both 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
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Knowledge of IR35 and contingent labour legislation, with experience implementing compliant governance frameworks (desirable)
Knowledge of Health & Safety governance (desirable)
Experience with job evaluation frameworks (desirable)
Experience of using SAP or similar systems (desirable)
Experience working in pan European or multi country environments (desirable)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexibility for when you work
Ability to work from home 2 days per week

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Hard Skills & Tools

recruitment deliverystructured interviewingrecruitment administrationprocess controlrecruitment statisticstime to hirepipeline reportingjob evaluation frameworksdata analysiscompliance governance

Soft Skills

attention to detailstakeholder engagementdata driven mindsetcommunicationleadershipgovernance oversightcontinuous improvementanalytical thinkingproblem solvingcollaboration