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