Recruitment Manager

This is a pivotal new role responsible for building and leading the recruitment function across the NWF Group. You will be tasked with designing and embedding efficient recruitment processes, enhancing hiring manager capability, implementing consistent metrics and reporting, and fully leveraging our ATS (Hireful) to drive performance, consistency, and candidate experience based at Wardle on an FTC for 12 months reporting into the Group HR Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruitment Process Development & Delivery: Design and implement a consistent, scalable recruitment process across all business divisions. Partner with HR and business leaders to align recruitment strategy with workforce planning needs. Establish best-practice sourcing, screening, selection, and offer procedures tailored to different business units and role levels.
• Hiring Manager Enablement: Develop and deliver training and toolkits to upskill hiring managers on recruitment best practices, inclusive hiring, and legal compliance. Serve as a trusted advisor to managers throughout the recruitment lifecycle. Promote consistent use of structured interviews and evaluation methods.
• ATS (Hireful) Optimisation: Act as the Group lead for the ATS (Hireful), ensuring optimal configuration and adoption across divisions. Provide training, support, and guidance on the use of Hireful to internal stakeholders. Work with the ATS provider and internal IT to troubleshoot issues and implement new features or workflows.
• Data, Reporting & Insights: Develop a Group-wide recruitment dashboard, providing regular reports and insights on key KPIs (e.g., time-to-hire, source effectiveness, diversity, cost per hire). Use data to drive continuous improvement and advise the business on hiring trends and bottlenecks.
• Employer Brand & Candidate Experience: Ensure a consistently high-quality candidate experience across all touchpoints. Support the development of NWF Group’s employer brand and external recruitment communications in collaboration with Marketing.
• Project & Change Management: Lead change management initiatives related to recruitment transformation. Engage key stakeholders throughout the Group to ensure alignment and buy-in. Evaluate and iterate the recruitment function as the business evolves.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven experience setting up or transforming an in-house recruitment function, ideally within a multi-division organisation.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment processes and talent acquisition strategies.
• Experience training and enabling hiring managers at various levels.
• Solid experience with ATS platforms (Hireful experience is highly desirable).
• Analytical mindset with ability to build and present recruitment dashboards and reports.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, coaching and influencing abilities.
• Experience working in a matrix or decentralised environment is a plus.

NWF Group is a specialist distributor of fuel, food and feed across the UK, operating through its three main divisions: Fuels, Food, and Agriculture. With a heritage dating back over 140 years, we are a growing business driven by innovation, operational excellence, and our people. As we continue to expand, we're investing in building a modern, agile HR and recruitment capability to support our future.