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Senior Recruitment Manager
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Lead Recruitment Manager to start asap
Salary is up to £45k plus great benefits – salary increase of £500 after 6 months probation
Permanent Full Time
Based out of any of our clients North East Offices Peterlee, Gateshead, Spennymoor or Durham – own transport needed for visits out to employers/stakeholders/North East Recruitment Manager team – free parking on site
You would also be expected to travel to the following offices to support business needs: Durham, Gateshead, Spennymoor & Peterlee.
Our client are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. They are a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services.
Benefits include:
- 25 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays
- Holiday transfer – up to 5 days each year
- Flexible holiday scheme – purchase or sell up to 5 days of holiday each year
- Childcare vouchers – up to £220 per 4 week period
- Free eye tests (and VDU glasses if required)
- Free Life Insurance benefit (up to £10,000)
- Personal development scheme
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Professional qualification sponsorship scheme
- Flexi-time – as agreed with Line Manager
- Life Assurance Cover of Four Times your Salary
- Critical Illness Cover
- Hospital Cash Plan
Have you got great sales skills and a passion for recruitment? Do you have management experience including supervision of an individuals/teams delivery and/or output?
The Lead Recruitment Manager reports to the Head of Delivery Support and plays a crucial role in managing strategic partnerships with key sector bodies. Your focus is on local growth sectors within the contract or region they operate in. In addition to overseeing employer engagement strategy, the Lead Recruitment Manager works closely with large regional employers to secure bulk vacancies. They collaborate with sector bodies, our clients Curriculum Team, and employers to develop Sector Routeways that align with employer and sector needs. These routeways are coordinated to take place over the course of a month.
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Building and maintaining excellent local relationships is a priority for the Lead Recruitment Manager. This ensures you can understand and influence local employment initiatives, seamlessly integrating our services with existing offerings.
As the Lead Recruitment Manager will, in addition to these duties, you will be expected to manage your own large employer accounts and will have personal targets to achieve linked these accounts, this will include pre- screening candidates and managing the whole recruitment process in support with Operations Teams.
Just Some Of Your Day-to-day Responsibilities Will Include
Employer Engagement Strategy- you will be responsible for the creation, implementation, and continuous development of an employer engagement strategy for their area of responsibility.
People motivation, coaching and development- you ensure the smooth running and productive dynamics of the team by acting as a lynchpin between all key roles involved in the customer journey towards sustained employment.
Business Development Activity- you will be responsible for identifying employment growth opportunities both short-term and longer-term, devising, running and attending appropriate events to promote our services and proactively supporting the development of new skills and/or work initiatives to ensure our participants can access such opportunities.
Account Management- you will be responsible for managing large employer accounts across both Reed and our supply chain acting as their single point of contact. Co-ordinating multi-location campaigns ensure there is both a consistent and joined up approach to delivery on the employers’ needs.
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Performance Management- you will be responsible for tracking and managing the effectiveness of employer engagement activity across the region. Working collaboratively with Operations Managers they will support, coach and guide Recruitment Managers to effectively find, promote and fill vacancies.
We need you to have:
Essential Attainments:
- Experience of working in sales focused roles within a business-to-business sales environment, recruitment, welfare-to-work or similar sector.
- Experience of sales management including the supervision of an individuals'/teams’ delivery and/or output.
- Experience of people management including supporting, mentoring and coaching and developing an individual.
- Experience of the administration or delivery of recruitment or assessment processes.
- A personal track record of working towards and achieving targets (minimum 2 years’ experience).
- A minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma.
- GCSE English Language at a minimum of a Grade B (or equivalent Level 2 qualification). OR achievement of a Level 2 in Literacy Assessment at interview stage.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-function service delivery team.
- Demonstrable proficiency in IT and a good grasp of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint specifically.
To apply for the role of Senior / Lead Recruitment Manager North East please email your cv to
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