Senior Recruitment Consultant in Manchester

We are seeking an experienced Senior Delivery Recruiter with a deep track record supporting Defence and Government programmes and clients. This role requires someone with an established network of security cleared candidates across IT and a proven ability to source, engage, and deliver talent into complex, high compliance environments. You will play a critical role supporting our clients by providing exceptional delivery capability, partnering closely with stakeholders, and ensuring we consistently secure the specialist skills our clients depend on.

As a Senior Recruiter, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Ability to demonstrate capabilities in the full end to end recruitment lifecycle.
• Data integrity, quality and managing all recruitment activity via our internal CRM system.
• Analyse data to improve outcomes and have data led conversations.
• Candidate attraction and sourcing via search and match technology.
• Consistent delivery of quality CVs within SLAs, aiming for efficiency ratio of 3:2:1.
• Offer and on-boarding management independently with no supervision required, managing, and closing complicated candidate objections and demonstrate substantial capability of managing offers, rates, and skills negotiation with hiring managers.
• Prepare for and attend client meetings, playing a contribution in setting them up for success and debriefings learnings following meetings.
• Begin to lead internal meetings with peers, team members and account teams in relation to new roles, recruitment strategy and progress reviews.
• Create positive relationships with candidates, asks, listens, and builds connections to gain market insight, information, leads and referrals.
• Acts as mentor for Trainee Recruiters and Recruiters.
• Show an in-depth understanding of client’s business, culture, key skills, and wider business information, using this information to identify roles in other areas.
• Acting as Delivery POC for client/Account Teams, chasing CV and interview feedback.
• Ability to challenge and educate clients based on market insights and conditions on rejected candidates where required.
• Understand and keep up to date with market trends, information, key movers, and projects to ensure high level conversations with candidates and to drive their own market knowledge.
• Take market information to your network via social media to drive inbound candidate engagement and networking opportunities.

Skills/qualifications needed:

• Confident in head hunting rather than sole reliance on application generation.
• Client relationship building and stakeholder management experience.
• Awareness of personal brand and impact across the business.
• Demonstrable success in engaging/placing passive candidates.
• Skilled in using sourcing tools.
• Skilled in attracting and placing candidates.
• Experience working to targets, deadlines and/or service agreements.
• Background in Specialist Recruitment within Tech.
• Knowledge and network connections to the Intelligence Community desirable.

At ManpowerGroup, we believe that success is built on a foundation of accountability and commitment to our standards at every level. These standards are not just guidelines; they are integral to our culture and are embraced by everyone, from entry-level employees to senior leadership. To be successful, each of us must be accountable for delivering on these standards. They are designed to support performance, development, and career progression, ensuring that we all have a clear understanding of what success looks like at each level of our organisation.

We all lead ourselves and others - our teams, our clients, and our stakeholders. By living our standards, we create a cohesive and supportive environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

Clarity: Takes time to understand and share our organisation's vision and strategy with others, holds themself and others accountable to deliver on our common goals, mindfully gives honest and regular feedback and openly receives it so we can all learn and deliver our best.

Care: Leads themself and others with care, respecting people as people first and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in their environment so people feel heard and valued, listens to understand and then communicates purposefully and consistently, intentionally develops themself and inspires, coaches and empowers the development of others.

Grow: Openly contributes thoughts, asks questions and challenges appropriately so that we make better, courageous and timely decisions, collaborates with others to identify current ideas, trends and perspectives (internally and externally) to continuously improve and transform what we do, builds on our successes and actively learns from mistakes and missed opportunities to progress toward our ambition.