Recruitment Specialist

Your tasks

This is an opportunity for an experienced Recruitment Specialist to take ownership of varied, business-critical hiring while contributing to the evolution of a growing in-house talent function.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will manage end-to-end recruitment across technology, data, finance, commercial and other specialist corporate roles. You will build credible hiring partnerships, proactively source hard-to-find talent and ensure candidates receive a professional, well-managed experience throughout the process. Alongside vacancy delivery, you will have the autonomy to influence how recruitment operates. Key priorities will include:

• Directly sourcing and headhunting specialist candidates
• Advising and constructively challenging hiring managers
• Managing multiple concurrent vacancies and maintaining momentum
• Improving recruitment processes, governance and compliance
• Strengthening hiring-manager capability through guidance and training
• Supporting the selection and implementation of a new applicant tracking system
• Improving efficiency and reducing avoidable agency reliance

Requirements

You will be a mid-to-senior-level talent acquisition professional with demonstrable technical recruitment experience and strong direct-sourcing capability. In-house experience would be advantageous, although technically focused agency recruiters seeking broader ownership and stakeholder involvement are encouraged to apply.

Other

The Opportunity Shape specialist hiring, strengthen recruitment capability and help deliver meaningful change.Contract: Permanent, fulltime Salary:£40,000 - £45,000 per annum + annual bonus Location: Sale, Greater Manchester (2/3 days onsite per week) Interview process: 3 stages (1 virtual screening, 2 in-person)

You will be self-sufficient, organised and comfortable working autonomously with busy senior stakeholders. The position is based in Greater Manchester and follows a hybrid working model, with regular office presence important for relationship building and collaboration.

What's next?

If you want to combine hands-on specialist recruitment with genuine scope to improve systems, processes and hiring capability, we would be pleased to hear from you and invite you to apply.