Interim Strategic Recruitment Leader | Hybrid Wakefield

Page Personnel; Wakefield; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

Job summary

Page Personnel is partnering with a well-established organisation in Wakefield to appoint a Recruitment Manager. You will lead a recruitment team, collaborate with Directors and senior stakeholders, and oversee end-to-end recruitment and onboarding across the organisation in a fast-paced, values-driven environment.

The role focuses on shaping attraction and retention strategies, ensuring compliant practices, and leveraging data to drive workforce planning and strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading recruitment and talent acquisition within a large or complex organisation.
• Proven experience managing, coaching and developing recruitment teams.
• Experience recruiting at Executive, Director and Senior Leadership level.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively.
• Experience developing attraction, onboarding and retention strategies.
• Strong understanding of recruitment legislation, compliance and best practice.
• Experience managing recruitment budgets, systems and process improvements.
• Data-driven approach with the ability to utilise recruitment metrics to influence business decisions.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and leadership skills.
• Experience within not for profit or regulated environments would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop an established recruitment team.
• Deliver a high-quality, customer-focused recruitment service across the organisation.
• Identify future workforce requirements with Directors, Executives and senior stakeholders.
• Develop attraction and retention strategies and oversee onboarding for key leadership roles.
• Influence organisational decisions through recruitment data, workforce insights and market intelligence.
• Drive continual improvement across recruitment processes and candidate experience.

Skills

Recruitment leadership

Team management

Executive recruitment

Stakeholder management

Attraction & onboarding

Legislation & compliance

Budgets & processes

Data-driven metrics

Communication & leadership

Job description

Page Personnel is partnering with a well-established organisation in Wakefield to appoint a Recruitment Manager. You will lead a recruitment team, collaborate with Directors and senior stakeholders, and oversee end-to-end recruitment and onboarding across the organisation in a fast-paced, values-driven environment.

The role focuses on shaping attraction and retention strategies, ensuring compliant practices, and leveraging data to drive workforce planning and strategic decisions.