Recruitment Manager

Position: Recruitment Manager

Employment: Full Time | Monday to Friday | 40 hours per week 

Creation Group is a full service event company and founded around four key service offerings – Creative, Production, Live and Asset & Inventory Management which enable us to offer our clients a turn key solution to deliver stand out brand experiences.

We are looking for a Recruitment Manager to help drive and scale our talent acquisition function. We are seeking a strategic personality to join our ever growing team. The perfect candidate will bring a hands-on approach to recruitment delivery by building strong partnerships with hiring managers, industry candidate networks whilst ensuring an outstanding candidate experience. 

You will ultimately be responsible for managing the end to end recruitment process across the business, overseeing hiring pipelines, and ensuring recruitment activity supports the business growth. You will be highly organised and a commercially aware recruiter who thrives under pressure and fast paced environments whilst enjoying balancing strategy with operational delivery. 

The ideal candidate will have experience working closely with stakeholders, leading recruitment teams within a dynamic environment and managing full-lifecycle recruitment across multiple disciplines, such as; administrative roles, sales, fabrication, warehouse, creative and technical design. 

This is a unique opportunity to shape recruitment strategy, influence hiring decisions, and contribute directly to the continued growth of Creation Group across multiple offices throughout the UK. 

 What you will be responsible for 

• Recruitment Delivery

• Manage end-to-end recruitment processes across multiple roles and departments

• Oversee candidate pipelines and sourcing strategies inclusive of utilising headhunting platforms for targeted sourcing

• Support hiring managers in defining role requirements and candidate profiles

• Hiring Process Management

• Create and coordinate structured interview processes and ensure consistent hiring practices

• Manage interview scheduling, candidate progression and feedback collection

• Oversee offers preparation and negotiation in partnership with hiring managers and the HR team

• Team Leadership

• Manage, mentor and support recruiters or recruitment administrators

• Provide guidance on sourcing strategies and candidate engagement based on knowledge and current market condition

• Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring priorities and timelines

• Provide guidance on market conditions, candidate availability and hiring expectations

• Ensure alignment between recruitment activity and workforce planning

• Recruitment Reporting

• Monitor and report on key recruitment metrics including time-to-hire, pipeline conversion and cost-per-hire

• Identify process improvements based on relevant hiring data and trends

• Update and manage monthly and yearly recruitment advertising budgets closely with the Finance team

• Freelance Pipeline

• Build a pipeline and manage relationships with specialist freelance talent across departments

• Manage freelance terms and NDAs are issued and tracked across departments

• Ensure freelance usage aligns with the current budgets and project needs

• Compliance 

• Ensure recruitment processes comply with company policies and current legislation

• Maintain accurate recruitment documentation and records

What we are looking for

• Proven experience managing end-to-end permanent recruitment across multiple roles and departments, ideally within the brand experience or events industry 

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with hiring managers and senior leadership teams

• Overseeing recruitment talent pipelines, industry candidate networks, sourcing strategy and hiring metrics to ensure hiring objectives are hit

• A proactive, commercially aware and data driven mindset with the ability to improve recruitment processes and delivery of a strong candidate experience 

What we offer

• Annual bonus scheme based on Company and personal performance

• Pension contributions

• 28 days (including Bank Holidays) that will increase by 1 day per annum up to a maximum of 38 days

• Enhanced Parental, Family and Special Leave 

• IT equipment/ancillaries as required

• Skills, training and progression opportunities

A bit about Creation

We are an industry leading full service Brand Experience group that produces and executes an exciting portfolio of projects with a range of flagship clients. Since 2012 we have been disrupters of the experiential marketing and live event industry, managing client projects from concept through to delivery.  

We focus on creative, solution-led, high quality outputs and through integrity, passion and a one team mentality we are trusted by our clients to create and deliver the impossible.  We dedicate ourselves to fostering a collaborative environment where our employees are continuously striving for excellence, innovation and professional growth, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to contribute, thrive and make a meaningful impact. 

This approach has set us apart from agencies in our field, leading to record breaking growth and recognition as one of the fastest growing companies both in the UK and Europe (Financial Times – FT 1000, Sunday Times Top 100, FEBE) for the last three consecutive years. We are also Silver-accredited by Ecovadis which recognises companies for their sustainability practices and their commitment to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies.

As we look to the future, we continue to expand, notably into global markets with the right leaders and teams at the forefront. 

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to diversity and inclusion. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected status.