Recruiting Associate Manager

Job Description

Recuiting Associate Manager

Career Level: 8

Location: London

This Recruitment Lead role is responsible for leading a team of recruiters across multiple business areas, delivering high-quality recruitment services that meet hiring demand and business objectives. The role focuses on driving recruitment strategy, optimising delivery, developing team capability, and building strong stakeholder partnerships to ensure a best-in-class candidate and hiring manager experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Delivery:

• Develop and execute recruitment and sourcing strategies to meet hiring demand.
  
• Ensure recruitment processes are consistently followed and continuously improved.
  
• Manage team capacity, workload and hiring of new recruiters where required.
  
• Monitor key recruitment metrics, including time-to-hire, quality, diversity, agency spend and hiring targets.
  
• Deliver accurate reporting and recruitment insights to stakeholders.
  
• Drive process improvements, simplification and adoption of best practices.
  
• Support diversity hiring initiatives and oversee vendor relationships.
  
• Maintain accurate recruitment data and candidate management systems.
  

People Leadership:

• Set clear objectives, provide regular feedback and support team development.
  
• Coach, mentor and train recruiters to build capability and performance.
  
• Manage workloads, encourage collaboration and maintain team engagement.
  
• Develop strong stakeholder and candidate management skills across the team.
  

Stakeholder Management:

• Build trusted partnerships with business leaders, HR, Reward, TSC and Recruitment teams.
  
• Act as the primary recruitment contact across assigned business areas.
  
• Provide regular updates on recruitment performance, pipelines, risks and market insights.
  
• Promote recruitment initiatives and strengthen collaboration with UK and global teams.
  
• Support the Recruitment Manager in delivering the wider recruitment strategy.
  

Strategic Focus:

• Lead recruitment projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
  
• Drive adoption of new recruitment tools, technology and reporting solutions.
  
• Partner with Talent Supply Chain and business leaders on workforce planning.
  
• Shape recruitment strategies aligned to business priorities and market conditions.
  
• Monitor labour market trends and competitor activity to inform hiring strategies.
  
• Support demand planning, candidate management and global recruitment initiatives, including acting as the key contact for the Ireland EH team.
  

Qualification

• Experience leading recruitment teams and managing recruitment operations.
  
• Strong knowledge of recruitment methodologies, sourcing strategies and KPIs.
  
• Proven ability to influence and build relationships with senior stakeholders.
  
• Experience managing recruitment across multiple business areas or geographies.
  
• Strong coaching, mentoring and people leadership skills.
  
• Excellent communication, planning and analytical skills.
  
• Experience using recruitment data to drive performance and continuous improvement.
  
• Commercial awareness, negotiation skills and understanding of employer branding.
  
• Passion for recruitment, collaboration and delivering exceptional hiring outcomes.
  

Deadline for applications: 17th July 2026

Locations

London

Additional Information

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