Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Manager in Canary Wharf

We’re looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Manager to lead the Talent function across the Bleep 360 Group. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who can combine strategic thinking with excellent recruitment delivery. You’ll lead a team of recruiters across our regional offices, shape our recruitment strategy, build high-quality talent pipelines and work closely with senior leaders to ensure we attract and appoint the right people to support the Group’s continued growth. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact on how we attract, recruit and retain talent across multiple businesses, while helping to develop our wider people strategy.

What you'll be doing

• Leading Talent & Recruitment
  • Lead and develop our Talent team, setting priorities, managing capacity and ensuring recruiters have clear accountability for performance and outcomes.
  • Oversee the full recruitment lifecycle, from attraction and sourcing through to interview, offer, onboarding and start date.
  • Ensure recruitment activity consistently meets our high standards for safer recruitment, safeguarding, CQC and Ofsted compliance.
  • Personally lead sensitive, specialist and senior-level appointments across the Group.
  • Build proactive talent pipelines through direct sourcing, headhunting and engagement with both active and passive candidates.
  • Lead recruitment campaigns and talent cohorts, coordinating candidates, stakeholders, timelines and onboarding requirements.
  • Use recruitment data, market insight and workforce trends to shape proactive resourcing strategies.
• Talent Attraction & Employer Brand
  • Develop innovative recruitment campaigns in partnership with hiring managers and our Marketing team.
  • Help strengthen our employer brand and recruitment marketing activity.
  • Build relationships with universities, colleges and education providers to develop early-career and emerging talent pipelines.
  • Lead national recruitment events and campaigns, representing the Group externally.
  • Manage recruitment advertising and agency spend, ensuring strong ROI and value for money.
• Stakeholder & Workforce Planning
  • Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders, providing expert recruitment advice and market insight.
  • Partner with business leaders on talent management, career development, internal mobility and succession planning.
  • Provide workforce insights even when there isn't an immediate vacancy, helping the business anticipate future talent requirements.
  • Work closely with HR and other Group functions to use onboarding, probation and exit feedback to identify opportunities to improve engagement and retention.
• Data, Performance & Continuous Improvement
  • Monitor recruitment and retention KPIs and use data to drive performance and decision-making.
  • Prepare and present recruitment MI, cost analysis and market trends to senior leadership.
  • Manage recruitment budgets across agencies, job boards and marketing activity.
  • Continuously review recruitment processes and candidate experience, balancing speed, quality and compliance.
  • Champion inclusive recruitment practices and ensure our attraction and selection processes are accessible and free from unnecessary bias.

What we're looking for

• You'll be an experienced recruitment or talent professional who is ready to take ownership of a Group-wide Talent function. You’ll also have:
• Proven experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Management or a senior recruitment leadership role.
• Strong experience managing the full recruitment lifecycle across multiple business areas and role types.
• Experience recruiting within regulated environments, with a strong understanding of safer recruitment, safeguarding, CQC and/or Ofsted requirements.
• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing a recruitment team, ideally across multiple locations.
• Strong sourcing and headhunting capability, including engaging passive candidates and building long-term talent pipelines.
• Experience delivering recruitment campaigns, projects and talent cohorts.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the confidence to influence senior leaders and hiring managers.
• Experience of workforce planning and translating future business requirements into proactive recruitment strategies.
• Strong commercial awareness, including agency management, supplier negotiation and recruitment budget management.
• The ability to interpret recruitment data, KPIs and market trends and turn them into practical recommendations.
• Experience using ATS platforms, LinkedIn and other recruitment technology.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• A genuine commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion throughout the recruitment process.
• The flexibility to travel regularly to regional offices and national recruitment events.

Why this role?

This isn't simply a role managing vacancies. You'll have the opportunity to shape the Talent function across an entire Group, influence how we attract and retain people, develop a high-performing recruitment team and work directly with senior leaders to support our future growth. You'll be joining a growing organisation where recruitment is recognised as a strategic function and where you'll have the opportunity to make a visible difference across multiple businesses. If you're a commercially minded recruitment leader who loves building great teams, developing talent strategies and making recruitment better, we'd love to hear from you.

Location: London Head Office

Travel: Regular travel to regional offices and national recruitment events

Reporting to: Director of Group Operations

The final job title will reflect the seniority of the successful candidate and their experience.