Early Careers & Campus Recruiter

AMS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

AMS is seeking a Recruiter focused on early careers and campus recruitment in Manchester. In this permanent role, you will manage client relationships, ensure high-quality recruitment delivery, and uphold compliance standards while contributing to a vibrant and inclusive work culture.

Benefits

Full training and support

Flexible working

Competitive reward and benefits package

Responsibilities

• Support client hiring managers with campus recruitment.
• Ensure recruitment service delivery aligns with SLAs.
• Manage relationships with client stakeholders.
• Monitor recruitment metrics and coach coordinators.

Skills

High volume end-to-end recruitment delivery

Campus marketing and attraction strategies

Using recruitment technology

Compliance and legislation awareness

Job description

About Us

Job Title: Recruiter - Early Careers & Campus

Career Level: 2

Location: UK, Manchester client site x 3 days per week

Working hours/shifts: Full Time, 37.5 hours/week

Employment Type: Permanent (Start date 18th August)

Join our World of Talent.

Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionising how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.

Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.

https://www.weareams.com/

The Role

You will support client hiring managers with filling their campus/early careers hiring demand. You will be responsible for ensuring all quality thresholds and SLA/KPIs are met. The role includes planning and executing campus recruitment activities, managing stakeholder relationships, and delivering excellent recruitment services to the client in line with agreed service levels, acting as the custodian of candidate quality and the hiring manager experience, working in conjunction with onsite and offshore campus colleagues.

You will work closely with the Manager (CSM), Senior Manager (SM), offshore Team Leads (TL), senior recruiters & coordinators to ensure high-quality recruitment services and a smooth recruitment process.

Key Accountabilities

What you'll be doing:

Client Stakeholder Relationships

• Create and maintain trusted partner relationships with hiring managers/client stakeholders.
• Maintain execution of the end-to-end delivery of campus recruitment services to them, providing counsel, advising through insight and SME knowledge on the recruitment process and ensuring that timelines are correctly identified and met
• Support discussion on attraction strategies, working with TL, CSM/SM and Head of Early Careers to correctly identify approach based on market and hiring demands
• To partner with TL, CSM / SM in creating strong partnerships with all internal and external stakeholders, attending regular calls, to building an understanding of the process and satisfaction in the service

Internal Stakeholder Relationships

• Monitor funnel metrics in partnership with the admin team to ensure bottlenecks are identified and addressed ahead of time
• Collaborate effectively with relevant teams, such as the Philippines / Poland CoE teams, to ensure a smooth client and candidate experience
• Coach and mentor Coordinators on best practice approaches and client culture, supporting them in achieving success in their roles
• Key contact for all reporting needs of CSM/SM, including governance, data requests

Recruitment Delivery

• Ensure the recruitment service is delivered in line with contractual obligations and client service level agreements.
• Lead vacancy consultation discussions in partnership with the TL/CSM/SM to agree on the recruitment plans with hiring managers and document outcomes of the intake meeting
• Collaborate with the campus recruitment team to ensure the delivery of high-quality candidate shortlists through to the Assessment Centre
• Deliver excellent candidate experience in conjunction with the onsite coordinators and the Philippines team; manage candidate satisfaction with the recruitment experience, from assessment centre to start date
• Support the hiring manager(s) with hiring decisions and guide them in determining an appropriate offer; lead the calibrations session and offer process to close the candidate
• Anticipate potential stakeholder issues within own area of expertise, taking action to address, and using judgment to escalate appropriately

Technology and Compliance

• Ensure that all changes to a candidate's status and requisition updates are tracked in real time in all relevant systems, and offline trackers (client and AMS)
• Support account contractual management by identifying and flagging scope creep
• Ensure compliance with legislation affecting an area of work (e.g., age discrimination, employment risks for contractors, OFCCP, data management techniques, or similar local legislative requirements)
• Identify, track and put controls on compliance risks in line with the overall AMS Risk Management Framework. Identify, Escalate, Mitigate/Resolve, and document issues in real time

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate:

Must haves

• Experience of high volume end-to-end recruitment delivery with preferred expertise in early careers and campus
• Understanding of campus marketing and attraction strategies and delivery (e.g., events, networking, social media and university relations)
• Experience of using recruitment technology
• An awareness and basic understanding of the need for compliance and legislation

Nice to have

• Experience of working within a highly complex or matrixed organisation
• Experience of working with remote teams
• Experience of using databases
• Demonstrate interest in learning about the broader market and industry to be able to build a network and provide great market insights to the client and different workstreams
• Understanding of legislation affecting an area of work (e.g., age discrimination, employment risks for contractors, OFCCP)

Other

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It's our world but you can do it your way.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [e-mail] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long-term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on the minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.