Talent Strategy & Resourcing Manager in Devon

Job Type: Permanent – Full-time or Part-time (minimum 30 hours per week). We offer a competitive salary package aligned with current market rates for this role. The final offer will reflect your skills, experience, and qualifications, alongside our commitment to internal equity.

Location: This is a hybrid role where you’ll be based from home with some travel for meetings. Candidates must be based in the South East or South West of England.

The role involves leading and delivering high-quality recruitment and talent work across a diverse client base. This is a fast‑paced, hands‑on role where you’ll balance leading a small team with delivering recruitment yourself. You’ll stay close to the detail, working on complex and often senior hires, while ensuring everything we do is structured, effective and delivers real impact for clients.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead a small team of Resourcing and Talent Specialists, providing coaching, support and clear expectations.
• Own end-to-end recruitment delivery across multiple clients, ensuring campaigns are well run, efficient and deliver strong outcomes.
• Lead complex and senior hiring, including C‑suite roles, providing confidence and quality at critical points.
• Manage team capacity and workload, ensuring delivery is balanced, sustainable and commercially effective.
• Contribute to commercial performance—through billable delivery, proposals and new opportunities.
• Design practical talent and workforce plans, helping clients move to more proactive hiring approaches.
• Review and improve clients’ recruitment processes to make them simpler, fairer and more effective.
• Embed inclusive hiring practices and strong candidate experience.
• Own and optimise the use of our ATS (Pinpoint), ensuring it is used effectively across the team.
• Work closely with colleagues across Fitzgerald to deliver a seamless, high‑quality client experience.

About you:

• Strong experience delivering end-to-end recruitment, either in‑house or within a consultancy environment.
• Experience working on complex or senior hires, ideally including executive-level roles.
• Confidence in advising on recruitment strategy and improving hiring processes.
• Good understanding of workforce planning and longer-term talent strategy.
• Knowledge of employment law, right to work and global mobility in recruitment context.
• Experience creating and facilitating assessment approaches.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
• A structured, organised approach, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

You’ll be someone who:

• Has strong commercial awareness—understanding how recruitment supports wider business performance.
• Takes ownership and follows things through.
• Cares about quality and getting the detail right.
• Is comfortable working in a fast‑paced, evolving environment.

You’ll need to be UK-based, hold a driving licence, and be happy to travel in line with our hybrid working approach.

The Perks:

• Competitive salary of circa £60,000 – £65,000 per annum.
• 25 days’ annual leave to start, rising to 27 after one year and 29 after two years, plus bank holidays.
• Career development and support for professional qualifications.
• Monthly homeworking allowance and all equipment provided.
• Flexible working patterns to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Life assurance at four times basic salary.
• Pension scheme options (including salary sacrifice) and 4% employer pension contributions, with a minimum of 4% employee contributions.
• Shopping discounts platform, flu vaccinations, and technology and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, including EAP and health cash plan.
• Enhanced family leave.
• A growing, progressive business with people at its heart.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.