Recruitment Manager, Europe - Early Careers

Brunswick Group; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global advisory firm in London is seeking a Recruitment Manager for Europe to lead early careers and apprentice hiring initiatives. This role involves managing the end-to-end recruitment process while promoting inclusive practices and ensuring alignment with employer branding. The ideal candidate has proven experience in recruitment management, strong organizational skills, and excellent stakeholder engagement capabilities.

Benefits

Financial future support

Health and wellness benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment across various levels.
• Strong record in early careers and apprentice recruitment.
• Experience in diversity hiring initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment with responsibility for attraction strategy.
• Manage Early Careers recruitment cycles.
• Champion inclusive talent attraction practices.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment management

Early careers recruitment

Stakeholder management

Sourcing skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Tools

Greenhouse

Microsoft Office

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

Recruitment Manager, Europe - Early Careers

London, England, United Kingdom

Joining as a member of our Europe Recruitment team and collaborating with our local People team, you will play a key role in shaping how we attract, engage, and hire the best talent for London and across our European network.

You will deliver search and selection activity from administrative to senior and specialist hires and oversee and deliver key early career programmes including the Spring and Autumn Executive Cohort recruitment cycles, Summer Internship Programme, the Taylor Bennett Foundation partnership, and the development of our apprentice programme.

Being a trusted adviser to our hiring managers, providing market insights, driving hiring, and interviewing efficiency, you will promote talent attraction and recruitment activities that reflect Brunswick’s values and employer brand.

Overview

We value agile thinking, team collaboration, and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced, people-focused advisory environment.

Day to day elements of the role could include:

Search and Selection

• Lead end-to-end recruitment with responsibility for attraction strategy, candidate sourcing, interview assessment, and offer management.
• Prioritise internal mobility by actively seeking suitable internal candidates.
• Conduct direct external recruitment activity, managing the sourcing process from initial outreach or advertising to offer stage.
• Engage external agencies or head-hunters only when strategically agreed or where direct search has not delivered a suitable outcome in the agreed time frame.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, develop selection criteria, and create high-quality job descriptions.
• Proactively build talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs across the business.
• Manage relationships with external search partners, ensuring value for money and a consistent candidate experience.

Early Careers and Apprentice Hiring

• Lead recruitment for the Spring and Autumn Executive Cohort hiring cycles, including advertising, candidate sourcing, assessment centre design and delivery, and offer management.
• Manage the Summer Internship Programme recruitment process, from planning and advertising to assessment and onboarding.
• Oversee the Taylor Bennett Foundation partnership recruitment activity, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and diversity goals.
• Help develop Brunswick’s apprentice programme in line with business needs, ensuring continuous improvement in process, data accuracy, and the timely issuing of offers.

Inclusive Hiring and Employer Branding

• Champion inclusive talent attraction practices, ensuring that content, materials, and selection criteria attract diverse candidates and remove unnecessary barriers to entry.
• Promote Brunswick’s employer brand through multiple recruitment marketing social media, networking, and candidate engagement activities.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a key point of contact for London and European hiring managers, providing advice, market insights, and updates on recruitment progress.
• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers to anticipate future hiring needs and develop proactive recruitment strategies.
• Provide guidance and oversight to the Recruitment Co-ordinator to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency in recruitment administration and candidate experience.
• Regularly update stakeholders on hiring metrics, progress, and challenges.

Process, Systems, and Compliance

• Use Greenhouse to manage all recruitment activity, ensuring accurate and timely data entry for reporting purposes.
• Ensure all recruitment activity complies with local right-to-work requirements, GDPR regulations, and Brunswick’s internal policies, supporting a seamless and professional candidate experience.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment for a broad range of roles, from administrative up to mid -level senior and specialist positions in a fast-paced, client service led business.
• Strong record in early careers and apprentice recruitment, including assessment centre delivery and design.
• Demonstrated success using LinkedIn Recruiter, excellent sourcing skills, including the ability to identify and engage passive candidates in niche talent pools.
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusive recruitment practices and experience in diversity hiring initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work confidently with a range of stakeholders across multiple European locations.
• Exceptional organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage and balance multiple priorities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel, and familiarity with recruitment systems such as Greenhouse.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills; confidence writing content for job adverts, internal audiences, and talent attraction campaigns for platforms such as Glassdoor, LinkedIn

Why Join Us

Whether you are joining a client facing a team, a core services team, or starting out on your professional career journey, joining Brunswick unlocks a range of employee benefits to support your financial future, health and wellness, family and community and continuous professional development.

Applications will close 5pm Friday 19 September

About Brunswick

Brunswick is a global advisory firm. We help companies tackle high-stakes issues, navigate complex stakeholder relationships, and deliver high-impact outcomes.

Our clients value our ability to anticipate, shape, and respond to the key players and forces in the financial and investment arena, regulatory and geopolitical universe, NGO community, workforce and beyond. They rely on us for deep experience, fresh perspectives and original thinking. So, in Brunswick you will find an exceptional range of experience and talent with a rich mix of backgrounds. From the beginning, we have prioritized attracting, developing, and retaining the best professionals in the industry, united by a culture of inclusivity, excellence, and intellectual curiosity.

Founded in 1987 in London, the firm has organically grown to 27 offices in 18 countries across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. We operate as a “one-firm firm” with no individual profit centers. This allows us to assemble fully integrated, bespoke teams for each client, able to draw on the full resources of Brunswick anywhere in the world.

Brunswick is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.