Senior Recruiter (FTC Maternity Cover)

Brands2Life; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Brands2Life is seeking a Senior Recruiter for aFixed Term maternity cover role in a busy in-house team. The position is hybrid from London office, 3–4 days a week, 6 months, ASAP start.

You will partner with hiring managers and the People & Recruitment team to fill roles across PR, Digital & Social Media, Marketing and operations. You will own the candidate journey from briefs to offers, conduct initial screenings, schedule interviews, and coordinate onboarding.

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy recruitment role, ideally in-house within PR/Digital/Marketing.
• Strong understanding of recruitment best practices and basics of employment law including right to work and IR35.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter for proactive sourcing and talent engagement.

Responsibilities

• Partner with People & Recruitment team and hiring managers to understand resourcing needs.
• Take detailed job briefs and clarify recruitment process for each role.
• Create and post standout job advertisements.
• Proactively source candidates through headhunting, networking and applications.
• Manage full candidate journey: screening, interviews, onboarding support, and feedback.

Skills

LinkedIn Recruiter

Stakeholder management

Organised / multitasking

Communication skills

Tools

ATS systems

Job description

Senior Recruiter (FTC Maternity Cover)

Location: Hybrid - 3 to 4 days per week from our London office

Contract: Fixed Term (6 months)

Start Date: ASAP

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Recruiter to join our busy and successful in-house Recruitment team at Brands2Life. This is a fixed-term maternity cover role, starting ASAP for six months.

Brands2Life is one of the UK’s leading integrated communications agencies, with over 190 talented professionals across London, New York, and San Francisco. Our Recruitment team plays a pivotal role in attracting and hiring the best talent to support our continued growth and success.

This is a fast-paced, hands-on role where you’ll partner closely with hiring managers and the People & Recruitment team to deliver exceptional recruitment experiences across a variety of disciplines from PR, Digital & Social Media, Marketing and business operations.

Key responsibilities of this role will include:

• Partnering with the People & Recruitment team and hiring managers to understand resourcing needs.
• Taking detailed job briefs and ensuring clarity on the recruitment process for each role.
• Creating and posting standout job advertisements.
• Proactively sourcing candidates through headhunting, networking, and managing applications.
• Managing the full candidate journey, including:
• Carrying out initial screening calls to assess suitability and provide an engaging first impression of Brands2Life.
• Scheduling and preparing hiring managers and candidates for interviews.
• Welcoming candidates to the office and ensuring any task setups or technical requirements are in place.
• Gathering and delivering detailed feedback.
• Managing expectations around roles, salary, and benefits.
• Communicating outcomes and offers.
• Working with the People and wider Operations teams to ensure smooth onboarding for new joiners.
• Maintaining accurate records in our recruitment database.
• Supporting the People & Recruitment team to manage freelancer bookings and administration, including sourcing talent, issuing contracts, conducting IR35 assessments, and coordinating with the Finance team to ensure compliance and smooth processing.
• Occasionally partnering with our preferred supplier list (PSL) recruitment agencies and liaising with external partners such as LinkedIn Account Management teams and YunoJuno to support hiring needs.

What we’re looking for:

• Previous experience in a busy recruitment role – ideally within an in-house team in a similar industry (PR, Digital, Social Media, Marketing).
• Strong understanding of recruitment best practices and basics of employment law (including right to work and IR35).
• Experienced user of LinkedIn Recruiter for proactive sourcing and talent engagement.
• A confident communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.
• Someone who is highly organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• A warm, personable approach – you’ll often be the first point of contact for candidates, so building positive relationships is key.
• Collaborative and adaptable, with a solutions-focused mindset.

Why join us?

Brands2Life was recently named PRWeek’s Large Consultancy of the Year, a recognition that reflects the strength of our work, our people, and the impact we deliver for clients. You’ll work alongside passionate, supportive colleagues in a role where you will directly shape the future of our talent and help us attract the best people in the industry.

As of December 2023, Brands2Life has been part of the Paritee agency platform, a new kind of network that combines the best of large agency thinking and entrepreneurial excellence. Paritee has a vision to create a new breed of agency network and model for collaboration, one that brings together National Champion agencies in each key market and enables them to co-operate for mutual benefit and to provide clients with world-class services and advice, based on deep sector insight.

Brands2Life is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds. We believe a diverse and inclusive workforce enhances our ability to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or citizenship status.

If your application for employment is unsuccessful, Brands2life will hold your data on file for 3 years after the end of the relevant recruitment process. If you agree to allow Brands2life to keep your personal data on file, we will hold your data on file for a further 2 years for consideration for future employment opportunities. At the end of that period [or once you withdraw your consent], your data is deleted or destroyed. If you do not want your information stored, please let us know and we can make the necessary changes.