Hybrid Recruitment Growth Leader — Build & Scale Ops

speakit; Ohio; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Competitive salary + incentives

Job summary

speakit is seeking a dynamic Recruitment Manager to join our growing recruitment business. This hands-on leadership role combines business development, recruitment delivery, and people management to shape the operation from the ground up.

You will identify clients, hire and train a recruitment team, build long-term relationships, and work closely with senior management on pricing, positioning, and growth strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Recruitment Manager, ideally in an agency environment.
• Background in generic / multi-specialty recruitment.
• Strong business development experience within recruitment.
• Ability to build processes and structure from scratch.
• Comfortable working hands-on while also leading a team.

Responsibilities

• Identify, approach, and secure new clients
• Hire, onboard, and train a recruitment team
• Build long-term client relationships and act as a trusted recruitment partner
• Work closely with senior management to define pricing, positioning, and growth strategy
• Personally manage key roles and clients, especially in the early stages
• Design and implement recruitment processes, KPIs, and best practices
• Coach recruiters on sourcing, interviewing, and client management
• Create a collaborative, accountable, and results-driven team culture

Skills

Recruitment management

Business development

People leadership

Agency experience

Sourcing & interviewing

Job description

On behalf of our client, a well-established and growing recruitment business, we are looking for a dynamic, hands-on recruitment manager to join their team. This is a hands-on leadership role combining business development, recruitment delivery, and people management.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build a recruitment operation from the ground up, shape its direction, and play a central role in the company’s future growth.

If you feel that this sounds like you, check below, apply and lets us call you.

Responsibilities

In this recruitment manager role, you will have to:

• Identify, approach, and secure new clients
• Hire, onboard, and train a recruitment team
• Build long-term client relationships and act as a trusted recruitment partner
• Work closely with senior management to define pricing, positioning, and growth strategy
• Personally manage key roles and clients, especially in the early stages
• Design and implement recruitment processes, KPIs, and best practices
• Coach recruiters on sourcing, interviewing, and client management
• Create a collaborative, accountable, and results-driven team culture

To become the recruitment manager we are looking for you must have:

• Proven experience as a Recruitment Manager, ideally in an agency environment
• Background in generic / multi-specialty recruitment
• Strong business development experience within recruitment
• Ability to build processes and structure from scratch
• Comfortable working hands-on while also leading a team

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience scaling a recruitment division
• Existing client network

If you succeed in this recruitment manager role, then you will have:

• Opportunity to build and lead a new business line
• High level of autonomy and influence on company strategy
• Competitive salary + performance-based incentives
• Clear career progression aligned with the growth of the division
• Supportive leadership and entrepreneurial environment
• Hybrid working model