Talent Acquisition Insights Manager

Primark; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Primark is seeking a Talent Acquisition Data and Insights Manager to lead the recruitment data strategy across the business. You’ll own system tooling, data quality, and analytics to drive smarter hiring decisions.

You’ll collaborate with technology, HR and Employer Brand teams, build scalable dashboards, forecast demand, and measure AI-enabled recruitment outcomes in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in talent acquisition or recruitment operations.
• Experience with recruitment systems and data across lifecycle.
• Proven ability to develop reporting and dashboards.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional data workstreams.
• Project and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the subject matter expert for recruitment systems (e.g. SmartRecruiters), partnering with technology and process teams to optimise workflows, enhance usability, and support automation and AI capabilities.
• Establish and maintain robust data structures within ATS and related tools, ensuring consistency, quality, and effective use of recruitment data for reporting and analytics.
• Develop and manage scalable dashboards and reporting with data and product teams, providing visibility into key recruitment metrics and measuring the impact of AI and automation on hiring outcomes.
• Analyse external talent market data and collaborate with Employer Brand and other teams to deliver insights on talent availability, competitor activity, and geographic opportunities.
• Assess recruiter workload, requisition distribution, and hiring output to evaluate capacity and productivity, and build forecasting models to support hiring demand.
• Monitor sourcing channels and careers site performance (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed), analysing usage, candidate behaviour, and conversion rates to optimise channel effectiveness and improve the candidate experience.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Data analytics

Recruitment dashboards

ATS systems

Stakeholder management

Automation & AI

Tools

ATS systems

Sourcing platforms

Analytics dashboards

Job description

Primark is seeking a Talent Acquisition Data and Insights Manager to lead the recruitment data strategy across the business. You’ll own system tooling, data quality, and analytics to drive smarter hiring decisions.

You’ll collaborate with technology, HR and Employer Brand teams, build scalable dashboards, forecast demand, and measure AI-enabled recruitment outcomes in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.