Job DescriptionRecuiting Associate ManagerCareer 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
LocationsLondon
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