Recruitment Team Leader

L&Q; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic Recruitment Team Leader to spearhead innovative recruitment strategies and lead a high-performing team. This role involves optimizing hiring processes, engaging with stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with recruitment legislation. With a focus on building a diverse workforce, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the employer brand and enhancing the overall recruitment experience. Join a community that values professional development, work-life balance, and social responsibility, making a significant impact in the lives of individuals and communities alike.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave

Excellent Pension Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Recognition Bonus Scheme

Family-Friendly Policies

Diverse Networking Groups

Volunteer Time

Learning & Development

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and delivering recruitment strategies in complex environments.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate teams to achieve business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver efficient recruitment services.
• Design and implement strategies for talent acquisition aligned with corporate objectives.

Skills

Recruitment Strategy & Delivery

Team Leadership & Motivation

Stakeholder Management

Process & Project Management

Technical & Analytical Skills

Legislative Knowledge

Education

CIPD qualification or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

ATS platforms

Job description

Title: Recruitment Team Leader

Contracts: 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Hours: Full-Time, 35 hours per week

Persona: Agile (20-40% in office and 3-4 days working from home)

Office Location: Stratford, London or Trafford, Greater Manchester

Salary: £47,135 to £52,008 per annum (Inside London) depending on experience
£41,168 to £45,800 per annum (Outside London) depending on experience

Role Profile - Recruitment Team Leader.pdf

Closing date for completed applications: 6th May 2025 at 11:59 pm

Interviews will be conducted in the week commencing 12th May 2025

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated

Join our Recruitment Team at L&Q!

At L&Q, we believe that effective recruitment is the cornerstone of building high-performing teams. As a Recruitment Team Leader, you will lead a team of Recruitment Advisors and Coordinators to deliver a progressive, customer-focused recruitment and resourcing service. You’ll play a key role in shaping recruitment strategies, supporting talent planning, and enhancing L&Q’s employer brand.

• Do you thrive on leading recruitment operations, managing people, and optimizing hiring strategies in a dynamic, high-volume setting?
• Are you able to build trusted relationships across teams and suppliers while delivering consistent, high-quality communication?

If this sounds like you, we’d love for you to bring your leadership and recruitment expertise to L&Q!

Your Impact In The Role

• Team Leadership & Performance: Lead, support, and motivate a team of Recruitment Advisors and Coordinators, ensuring delivery of an efficient and customer-focused end-to-end recruitment service.
• Strategic Talent Acquisition: Design and implement attraction strategies that align with L&Q’s corporate objectives, workforce planning, and succession needs, in partnership with HR Business Partners and senior leaders.
• Process Improvement & Innovation: Lead on reviewing and streamlining recruitment processes, mapping improvements, and driving continuous development through proactive analysis and feedback.
• External Engagement & Supplier Management: Manage relationships with third-party suppliers and recruitment partners, ensuring compliance and effectiveness. Contribute to the creation of PSLs and vendor terms.
• Data & Insights: Use data and reporting tools to evaluate recruitment performance and drive improvements in sourcing, diversity initiatives, and brand awareness.
• Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure adherence to all relevant legislation, procurement practices, and internal policies, including IR35, data protection, DBS, and reference procedures.

What You'll Bring

To excel in this role, you'll need:

• Recruitment Strategy & Delivery: Demonstrable experience designing and delivering end-to-end recruitment and attraction strategies in a complex, fast-paced organisation.
• Team Leadership & Motivation: Proven ability to lead, coach, and inspire a recruitment team to deliver excellent outcomes aligned to business goals.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with experience engaging and advising senior stakeholders on workforce planning and resourcing needs.
• Process & Project Management: Strong organisational skills, capable of leading multiple recruitment initiatives, reviewing service performance, and managing project delivery.
• Technical & Analytical Skills: High level of IT literacy, including MS Office, ATS platforms, and data analysis for recruitment reporting and evaluation.
• Legislative Knowledge: In-depth understanding of relevant recruitment legislation, best practice, and compliance.
• Professional Development: CIPD qualification or equivalent is desirable.

Ready to lead impactful recruitment strategies and a high-performing team that drives talent excellence across the organisation? We’d love to hear from you—apply now!

Why Work for L&Q?

L&Q is not just a workplace; it's a community. Recognized as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women and certified as a Great Place to Work, we offer an environment where everyone can thrive.

The successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits, which includes:

• Generous Annual Leave: Starting at 28 days and increasing to 31 days after 3 years of continuous service.
• Excellent Pension Scheme: Double contribution up to 6%.
• Health Cash Plan: Claim money towards different types of medical services, and access other health and wellbeing offers
• Life Assurance: Generous non-contributory coverage.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Support when you need it.
• Recognition Bonus Scheme: Spot awards for outstanding contributions.
• Family-Friendly Policies: Designed to help you balance work and family life
• Diverse Networking Groups: Join groups like Ability, Kaleidoscope, Inspire & Spectrum.
• Volunteer Time: Up to 21 hours per year to volunteer with the charity of your choice.
• Learning & Development: Commitment to your professional growth.

As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.

Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.

At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q. More information about L&Q’s values can be found on our website and a copy of our behavioural framework can be provided on request.

Our Commitments

At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.

We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and recognise the changing demands and circumstances in life. Please let us know during the recruitment process if you’re interested in part time working or job sharing. In addition, should your circumstances change once you have joined L&Q, you can also request flexible working arrangements, e.g. a change to working hours - if it’s feasible then we’ll make it happen.

We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.

We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.