Talent Acquisition Manager

Find brilliant people. Build exceptional teams. Shape Arcade’s future.

Arcade is looking for a hands‑on Talent Acquisition Manager to help us find and hire brilliant people across our restaurants, food brands and central support functions.

Arcade operates high‑volume hospitality venues in prime London locations, bringing together exciting food concepts created in partnership with talented chefs. We move quickly, think creatively and give our people the opportunity to make a genuine impact.

The role

You’ll manage recruitment from the initial hiring brief through to offer acceptance and onboarding handover. Working closely with hiring managers across the business, you’ll balance high‑volume operational recruitment with management and support‑function vacancies.

This is a delivery‑focused role for someone who enjoys taking ownership, building relationships and finding great candidates not simply processing applications.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Managing a variety of vacancies (from entry level to senior management) across our sites and support office teams
• Briefing roles and creating engaging, inclusive job adverts
• Proactively sourcing candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, networking and creative channels
• Screening candidates and conducting initial interviews
• Coordinating interviews, trials and structured assessments
• Advising hiring managers and supporting fair, evidence‑based decisions
• Managing offers within agreed hourly rates, salary bands and budgets
• Building pipelines for recurring and business‑critical roles
• Maintaining accurate recruitment data and providing clear progress updates
• Delivering a positive candidate experience at every stage
• Supporting our employer brand, inclusive hiring practices and recruitment projects

About you:

• Have 5+ years of experience recruiting across operational, management and head office functions (essential)
• Bring high volume (end‑to‑end) recruitment experience within hospitality and restaurant environments (essential)
• Have had people management (advantageous)
• Are confident proactively sourcing and engaging candidates for hard to fill positions
• Can manage competing priorities and multiple live vacancies
• Build credible, collaborative relationships with hiring managers
• Use data and market insight to guide recruitment decisions
• Care about creating an excellent candidate experience
• Are proactive, curious and comfortable working in a lean, agile environment
• Enjoy rolling up your sleeves and getting things done

At Arcade, recruitment is about more than filling vacancies. It’s about enabling the business, supporting our managers and bringing in people who will thrive as we continue to grow.

If you’re commercially minded, people‑focused and excited by the pace of hospitality recruitment, we’d love to hear from you.