Talent Acquisition Lead

Talent Acquisition Lead (IT / Technology)

Location: South Manchester / Cheshire (Hybrid working a following 3-month qualifying period) (3 Days office / 2 Days WFH)

Hours: 9am – 5.30pm Mon – Fri

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

This is a strategic and hands-on in-house recruitment role focused on scaling technology hiring across the UK and international markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify recruitment bottlenecks and analyse KPI data to improve hiring performance
• Design and implement scalable recruitment processes
• Develop proactive sourcing strategies and talent mapping approaches
• Partner with leadership on workforce planning and forecasting
• Provide market insight on salary trends, competitor activity and talent availability
• Translate recruitment metrics into commercial insight
• Manage full recruitment lifecycle for niche technology roles
• Headhunt specialist talent using LinkedIn Recruiter and market mapping
• Mentor and support members of the Talent Acquisition team

Requirements:

• Extensive in-house experience recruiting niche technology roles
• Experience improving recruitment strategy within a scaling organisation
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making
• Commercial awareness and ability to balance speed, cost and quality
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

Benefits:

• Career progression and accredited training
• Professional certification support
• Hybrid working (qualifying period)
• Private healthcare (qualifying period)
• Life assurance
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Pension contribution
• Profit share scheme
• Wellbeing support including 24/7 GP access
• Professional subscriptions paid