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.