Recruitment Manager

London (Zone 1) – Hybrid Working

2–3 days per week in the office

£500 per day (via Umbrella)

Contract

We are seeking an experienced Recruitment Manager to lead a busy organisation through a period of high-volume and complex recruitment activity. This hands-on role requires someone who can operate both strategically and operationally, ensuring recruitment processes run efficiently while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment across high-volume vacancies.
• Lead recruitment activity for complex, specialist, and senior-level roles.
• Work closely with hiring managers to define role requirements and recruitment strategies.
• Oversee agency relationships and ensure effective use of external suppliers.
• Drive efficient recruitment processes, ensuring roles are filled in a timely manner.
• Monitor recruitment pipelines and provide updates on progress and key hiring metrics.
• Ensure best practice in candidate experience, compliance, and selection processes.
• Support workforce planning and prioritisation of critical hires.
• Identify underperformance and take proactive steps to elevate team performance quickly.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Recruitment Manager or Senior Talent Lead.
• Strong experience managing high-volume recruitment environments.
• Ability to manage complex or specialist hiring campaigns.
• Excellent stakeholder management with senior leaders and hiring managers.
• Experience improving or streamlining recruitment processes.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment.

Sector & Recruitment Performance Experience

Public sector experience is highly relevant, particularly for candidates who are familiar with:

• Working within strict budget constraints
• Data-driven performance cultures and metrics reporting
• Target-focused, delivery-led environments

Experience in optimising recruitment performance is essential, including:

• Managing service catalogues and service activity metrics
• Increasing the number of offers made
• Enhancing LinkedIn sourcing and candidate search activity
• Boosting interview volumes
• Driving overall team output and consistently achieving hiring targets

The Hiring Manager is looking for a leader who will tackle underperformance decisively and quickly elevate team performance.

Working Arrangement

• Hybrid working – 2–3 days per week in a London Zone 1 office
• £500 per day via umbrella
• Immediate or short-notice availability preferred