Recruiter

Location:  Zabrze - fully on site

Role: Recruiter

📣A bit about the role

We are looking for a Recruiter to join our People Team at Sam’s Kitchen at a very exciting time in our journey.

You will be joining the team as we set up our new greenfield site and be heavily involved in the creation of the recruitment processes and recruitment of over 200 operational roles year 1 which will be your main focus and goal.

Supported by the UK Operations team who have already set up a similar site in the UK you will have the best opportunity to grow in the role and build something new

We are growing quickly and have ambitious plans over the next 10 years. This is definitely a role for someone that is comfortable (and thrives) in a fast-paced environment.

In this role you will join the wider People Team and along with a Senior Recruiter will play an instrumental part of the recruiting function at Sam’s Kitchen, recruiting for all operational roles at the site.

This role will report to our Senior Recruiter at the site. This role would have the expectation to be on site 5 days per week.

 

A bit more detail

Your responsibilities will cover 4 key areas:

1. Candidate Experience and Assessment

You’ll be the first point of contact for candidates, shaping their impression of Butternut. It’s your job to:

• Provide feedback at every stage of the process, creating a positive and transparent candidate experience so all candidates leave with a smile whether they are successful or not.
• Screen CVs and applications to identify top talent.
• Conduct engaging and insightful screening calls, assessing candidates against the role requirements and our values.
• Book and coordinate interviews, ensuring smooth scheduling for candidates and hiring managers.
• Act as a champion for fairness, diversity, and inclusion throughout the hiring process.
• Completing pre-employment and right to work checks, and managing the onboarding of new squad members through our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and internal IT systems

      2. Hiring Manager experience

As a High Volume Recruiter, you’ll be a strategic partner to our hiring managers and key stakeholders. Building trust and strong relationships will be at the heart of your role. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to:

• Understand their requirements and align recruitment strategies with their business goals.
• Deliver regular updates on open positions, keeping communication clear and expectations managed.
• Offer support such as interview training, business partnering, and providing daily/weekly updates to ensure a seamless hiring process.
• Manage competing priorities with confidence, knowing when to push back or adapt to deliver the best outcomes.

      3. Squad stability

At Butternut Box, we know how important it is to stay ahead. You’ll contribute to squad stability by:

• Using churn data and insights to anticipate backfills and ensure recruitment plans are always one step ahead.
• Partnering with stakeholders to proactively pipeline talent for high-demand or seasonal roles.
• Supporting the ongoing growth of our team by maintaining a seamless flow of candidates.
  4. Active part of the people team

Recruitment isn’t just about hiring – it’s about being part of the bigger picture. In this role, you’ll:

• Advocate for internal progression, supporting squad members in growing their careers with us.
• Help foster a culture of inclusion and belonging by ensuring fairness and transparency in everything you do.
• Collaborate with the wider People Team to drive initiatives that make Butternut an even better place to work.
• Get involved in non-recruitment activities, such as organising engagement events.

 🔎 A bit about you

We are looking for a recruiter to work on hiring for our operation at Sam’s Kitchen, in this high pace role you will attract and hire top talent to build our operations team. You will own the recruiting funnel from attraction, interviewing, offering and onboarding. You will be passionate about improving recruitment processes and championing the candidate experience.

You are obsessed with the Butternut brand and will enjoy building relationships with talented people, telling them about Butternut and what it’s like to work here.

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and dealing with changing priorities
• Able to manage multiple priorities and support hiring managers across different business areas
• ATS experience
• Pro-active, entrepreneurial ‘can-do’ attitude
• Experience working in a startup or scaleup (and you loved it!) would be beneficial.
• Ability to build trusting relationships quickly with new hiring managers & wider stakeholders
• Analytical and investigative nature, always #strivingforbetter
• Passion for delivering an outstanding candidate experience that includes surprise and delights along the way
• Passionate about Diversity and Inclusion and how People teams can have a big impact and influence
• Ideally a good Level of English (B2, C1 or C2)
• You love dogs and cats, naturally. (You like people too…)

🐶 Background

Butternut Box was founded in 2016 and has seen outstanding growth and significant investment during its rapid evolution. A certified B-Corp, Butternut Box is committed to doing better for the planet, people and dogs. In 2023, the business secured £280m of investment from General Atlantic and L Catterton. This significant investment has allowed the business to rapidly develop its international expansion plans. These plans centre around European expansion with Czech Republic next market to launch. Beyond that, there are a number of markets that would be attractive considerations including: Austria, Nordics, Italy and France.

Butternut Box fully acquired PsiBufet, a Polish Direct to Consumer dog food brand in 2023. This business provides a foothold from which to establish a new manufacturing plant to serve these markets. As it stands, the business currently serves c.295,000 dogs with 200,000 in the UK, 30,000 in Poland, 20,000 in Benelux and 15,000 in Ireland. To achieve the growth demands will require the UK factory, ‘Rudie’s Kitchen’, to deliver increased output whilst a new Polish operation is commissioned and brought online.

The new site is in Zabrze. This new site will be 37,000 M2 (compared to the original UK site at 18,000 M2) and will eventually have 8 lines with the capacity to produce 1,200T per week.

Work is required to ready the building for food manufacturing, and this is underway. Once this is completed, equipment will be installed to allow a fulfilment operation to be moved from an established site. It isn’t anticipated that many of the existing team will move so a new team will need to be recruited and trained to allow first orders to be processed by Summer 2025. Further equipment is being installed and commissioned in readiness for the first production to commence by the beginning of July 2025. Again, a production team will need to be recruited and trained to make this possible. It is envisaged that much of this training will utilise the knowledge and experience gained at Rudie’s.

Our Values & ways of working

A business with people at the very core.  The company has great employee retention and prides itself on giving everyone the chance to stretch themselves in a supportive and inclusive environment.

The business’ values are: Dedicated and Determined; Open and Honest; Genuine Care; Strive for Better and For the Love of Dogs.

Recruitment process 

•  Screen/interview 
• Video interview 
• Face to face interview

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