Recruiter - Retail (9 month FTC) in Manchester

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits

Location: Manchester Store Support Centre and Home, Manchester, M4 3AL

Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment

Business area: People

Closing date: 07 July 2026

Requisition ID: 400067048

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work–life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a start, we work as business partners and specialists. Whether that’s making sure nearly 150,000 colleagues are paid on time, or shaping a strategy that helps us attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their potential. This is a fast-moving business, and our policies and rewards evolve with it. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives, so there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours matters.

As a Recruiter in the retail management hiring team, you will play a key role in delivering end-to-end recruitment across multiple store locations, partnering closely with stakeholders to attract and secure high-quality leadership talent. Working collaboratively and cross-functionally within a team of Recruiters to support the delivery of a high-performing in-house recruitment operation, you will provide a brilliant candidate experience. In a fast-paced, high-volume environment, you will manage hiring activity, drive engagement with store leadership candidates, and ensure a consistent, efficient and positive recruitment journey from attraction through to offer.

What you'll do

As a Recruiter at Sainsbury's within the Group HR division, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of a high-performing in-house recruitment operation and providing a stellar candidate experience. Your responsibilities will include:

• Establishing and nurturing relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders
• Managing complaints and complex queries
• Supporting recruitment campaigns
• Sourcing future talent needs
• Overseeing administrative processes
• Maintaining recruitment systems' accuracy
• Driving continuous improvement within the recruitment team
• Providing recruitment insights
• Managing recruitment content on internal sites
• Contributing to coaching and learning solutions for HR teams

All while embodying a customer-led service approach and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

Who you are

As a Recruiter for Sainsbury's, you are a dedicated and customer-focused professional with a deep understanding of recruitment challenges in a fast-paced, complex environment. With your experience in sourcing for a wide range of roles, analytical mindset, and strong stakeholder management skills, you play a key role in delivering a high-performing recruitment operation and ensuring a brilliant candidate experience. Your ability to simplify complex information, present recruitment insights effectively, and drive continuous improvement reflects your commitment to delivering an efficient, professional, and candidate-focused recruitment service.

Key qualifications include:

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end recruitment across a range of role types, including both high-volume and specialist or leadership hiring
• Demonstrable ability to partner with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand hiring requirements and provide recruitment guidance, including influencing hiring decisions
• Evidence of sourcing and building candidate pipelines using a variety of methods, including online platforms and direct sourcing approaches
• Ability to analyse recruitment data and produce insights (e.g. MI, trends, or reporting) to support workforce planning and decision making
• Proven capability to manage recruitment processes and systems accurately, including vacancy management, candidate communication, and maintaining data integrity

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working.

When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

• Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year.
• Pensions scheme and life cover.
• Performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.
• Annual holiday allowance and the option to buy up to an additional week's holiday.
• Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before payday), and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).