Recruitment Team Leader

Location: Hybrid/Rochdale - 3 office days a week About Us Marston Holdings is a market-leading provider of technology-enabled services, supporting local authorities, central government, utilities and private sector organisations across the UK.

We're looking for an experienced Recruitment Team Leader to lead our recruitment team and drive the delivery of high-quality hiring across a diverse range of frontline, operational and specialist roles. This is an excellent opportunity for a recruitment professional who combines strong leadership skills with a passion for delivering great recruitment outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

The Role Reporting to the Head of Recruitment, you will lead a team of recruiters responsible for delivering high-volume recruitment across frontline and operational teams. Alongside this, you'll support the recruitment of specialist and professional positions across the wider business.

You'll work closely with hiring managers to understand workforce requirements, develop attraction strategies and ensure the team delivers an outstanding candidate and hiring manager experience. You'll also play a key role in driving continuous improvement through the use of recruitment technology, data and innovative sourcing approaches.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of recruiters to deliver high-quality recruitment outcomes.
• Drive high-volume recruitment activity across frontline, operational and customer-facing roles.
• Support recruitment across specialist and professional disciplines where required.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and provide recruitment expertise.
• Develop effective attraction and sourcing strategies to build talent pipelines and reduce agency dependency.
• Monitor recruitment performance and ensure delivery against agreed KPIs and service levels.
• Analyse recruitment data to identify trends, improve performance and support business decision-making.
• Champion the use of recruitment technology, automation and AI tools to improve efficiency and candidate attraction.
• Manage agency relationships and support recruitment governance and compliance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across recruitment processes and ways of working.

Who We're Looking For We're looking for an experienced recruitment leader with a proven track record of delivering high-volume, frontline and operational recruitment within a fast-paced environment. You'll be passionate about developing people, building strong stakeholder relationships and using data, technology and innovation to improve recruitment performance. Experience recruiting self-employed workers would be highly advantageous.

About You

• Proven experience leading, coaching or mentoring recruiters.
• Strong background in high-volume, frontline and operational recruitment.
• Experience recruiting self-employed workers is highly desirable.
• Exceptional direct sourcing and talent attraction skills, with experience building talent pipelines and proactively identifying hard-to-find candidates through a variety of sourcing channels.
• Experience supporting specialist, professional or management-level recruitment.
• Experience using applicant tracking platforms, ideally Talos360.
• Knowledge of recruitment technology, automation and AI tools that improve sourcing, attraction and hiring efficiency.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends and present meaningful insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to prioritise and deliver results in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment best practice, compliance and inclusive hiring principles.
• Excellent communication, leadership and relationship-building skills.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Hybrid working.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Healthcare cash plan.
• Pension scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Employee discounts and wellbeing benefits.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Career development opportunities within a growing organisation.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make recruitment decisions based on skills, experience and potential.

If you're an experienced recruitment leader who thrives in high-volume environments, enjoys developing teams and is passionate about using data and technology to drive results, we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date: Friday 30th October 2026 We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

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