Recruiter (12 month FTC) in Brighton

Department: People

Based in: Brighton HQ

Working arrangement: Full time, 12 month fixed-term contract - hybrid

MPB is the world's largest platform for used photo and video kit. We exist to make buying, selling and trading cameras and lenses simple, sustainable and trustworthy - and we're still growing across the UK, US and Europe.

Behind every great hire that's helped us get here, is a recruiter who has genuine visibility and impact at MPB. That's the role we're filling now.

What you'll actually be doing:

• You'll own hiring across a mix of teams - from first brief to first day - and you'll do it with the kind of intent that makes candidates feel genuinely excited about MPB before they've even met the team.
• Building sourcing strategies that go well beyond a job post.
• Using AI to move faster and smarter, without losing the human touch that makes recruitment worth doing.
• Championing, building and upholding a market-leading candidate experience in a challenging market.
• You will have real ownership, real autonomy, and work that stretches you - hiring at the frontier of emerging skill sets in a business that moves fast enough to make it matter, partnering with inspiring leaders who are driving innovation in their teams.
• Being the person hiring managers turn to when they're not sure what they need - helping them figure it out.
• Having honest conversations, giving useful feedback, and keeping the process moving.
• Bringing data into the room as a way of telling a story - about pipeline health, about what's working, about what to do differently next time.
• Flexing to help across our EU and US markets when things get busy.

Day to day, you will be:

• Partnering with industry leaders across Customer, Product, Technology, Data, Operations, Finance, People and Marketing.
• Building and owning proactive sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals and community networks.
• Running structured screenings and interviews across video and in person.
• Partnering with hiring managers from intake to offer - shaping briefs, setting expectations, and coaching them on great interview practice and timely feedback.
• Using AI-assisted tools to innovate, and optimise where we spend our most valuable time.
• Managing the offer process end-to-end, including keeping in touch with candidates through their notice periods.
• Tracking pipeline health, time-to-hire and source effectiveness through the ATS, and turning that data into useful conversations and insights.
• Acting as an active ambassador for MPB's employer brand - through every candidate interaction, your LinkedIn presence, and the occasional community event.
• Supporting hiring across EU and US markets during peak periods.
• Managing high-volume candidate pipelines for repeat roles.
• Sourcing and engaging in-demand, passive talent for specialist technical roles.

Who you are:

• You're a recruiter who enjoys more than just filling roles.
• You have opinions about what good looks like.
• You're comfortable in a room with senior stakeholders, and confident enough to push back if the brief isn't working.
• You earn trust quickly - with hiring managers, with candidates, with the team around you.
• You're curious about where recruitment is heading.
• You experiment with new tools, follow what's changing in the market, and bring ideas rather than just capacity.
• As a team, we are organised without being rigid, we're ambitious without being difficult, and we hold ourselves to the same high bar we hold everybody else to.
• Experience level matters less to us than mindset. If you've got the instincts, we'll back you.

Skills & experience:

• Confident sourcing talent proactively - through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, or building pipelines before a role even opens.
• Able to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels: setting expectations early, having honest conversations, keeping hiring managers engaged throughout.
• Experienced managing multiple live roles across different teams simultaneously, without quality or candidate experience slipping.
• Uses data to stay on top of pipeline health and progress, and can translate that into a clear update for a hiring manager or the wider team.
• Organised and deadline-aware - proactive about flagging risks early and managing your own workload.
• Curious about how AI and modern tooling can make recruitment sharper and faster, and open to experimenting with new approaches.
• Some exposure to hiring across the EU or US is a plus.
• Familiarity with an ATS - we use Teamtailor, but don't worry if you've not used it before - any ATS exposure will be beneficial.

No perfect candidate exists. If most of this resonates and you're excited by the rest, that's enough. We'd love to hear from you.