Talent Acquisition Manager

The Role Our client, an established tier one national construction company is looking to appoint an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and coordinate recruitment across their London and Northern Home Counties business. This is a stakeholder-focused role, responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process across both direct hires and agency-led recruitment. Reporting the the Head of People, the successful candidate will work closely with hiring managers and directors across the business, as well as external recruitment agencies, to ensure the company attracts and secures the right talent to support its continued growth. Together with experience of working in an internal role with a construction or real estate business, you will have initially come from construction recruitment background, You will be confident managing multiple stakeholders, implementing effective recruitment procedures and ensuring a consistent, efficient and commercially focused approach to hiring. Key Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process across the business, covering both direct hires and agency-supported appointments.
• Work closely with internal hiring managers and senior stakeholders to understand recruitment requirements, workforce needs and hiring priorities.
• Develop and implement effective recruitment processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency and a positive candidate experience.
• Manage relationships with external recruitment agencies, ensuring they are briefed effectively and delivering against agreed requirements.
• Coordinate agency engagement, candidate submissions, interviews, feedback and offers.
• Support and encourage direct recruitment wherever appropriate, helping to reduce agency dependency and recruitment costs.
• Advise hiring managers on market conditions, candidate availability, salary expectations and recruitment strategies.
• Establish clear recruitment procedures, reporting mechanisms and performance measures.
• Monitor recruitment activity, identify bottlenecks and ensure vacancies progress efficiently through the hiring process.
• Build strong relationships across the business to ensure recruitment remains aligned with operational and commercial objectives.
• Ensure recruitment activity supports the company's wider workforce planning and resourcing requirements.
• Maintain oversight of candidate pipelines, recruitment progress and key hiring metrics. Candidate Requirements
• A background in recruitment consultancy or agency recruitment is essential together with experience in an internal role ideally with a construction or property company.
• Experience managing recruitment processes involving both internal stakeholders and external recruitment agencies.
• Demonstrable experience of working with hiring managers to define requirements and deliver successful appointments.
• A strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment processes, from initial brief through to offer and onboarding.
• Experience coordinating multiple vacancies and managing competing stakeholder priorities.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and influencing skills.
• A commercially minded approach, with an understanding of recruitment costs, agency performance and time-to-hire.
• The ability to introduce structure, improve processes and drive accountability across recruitment activity.
• Experience within the construction, engineering or wider built environment sectors is required. The Opportunity This is an excellent opportunity for a talent acquisition manager looking to create and lead an internal recruitment team, taking ownership of recruitment processes and agency relationships within an established construction business. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the recruitment function, strengthen internal hiring capability and ensure the business has access to the talent it needs to deliver its projects and strategic objectives. You will be required to work the majority of the time from their Northern Home Counties office with the occasional visit to their London office together with visiting sites as and when required. Working from home is allowed when appropriate perhaps one day a week. To apply: Candidates must have a strong recruitment consultancy background in construction, experience of working in an in-house role, excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to manage recruitment effectively across both direct and agency-led hiring.