HR Manager - Talent Acquisition

HR Manager - Talent Acquisition

Salary: up to £45,000 per annum

Location: 1 Angel Square, Manchester/hybrid (2 days on-site per week)

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: 23:59pm, Thursday 16 July 2026

Overview of the HR Manager - Talent Acquisition role

Sellick Partnership is exclusively recruiting for an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to join our client based in Manchester on permanent basis. This role is offered on a hybrid basis.

The Talent Acquisition Manager will be responsible for the development of the recruitment strategy, taking a lead role in delivering improvements and designing, delivering and evaluating new recruitment initiatives. In addition, the Talent Acquisition Manager will be responsible for talent performance metrics and reporting, candidate sourcing, and pipeline management.

Key responsibilities of the HR Manager - Talent Acquisition will include

• Drawing on knowledge from team members regarding safer recruitment requirements to ensure child safeguarding practices are incorporated robustly into recruitment activity
• Auditing current ways of working, and collaborating with the operational HR team
• Design and develop new initiatives to maximise success and performance, whilst providing the most positive and engaging candidate experience
• Leading on the "Way of Being Co-op" within the recruitment marketing, ensuring our commitment to co-operative values is clear to all prospective candidates
• Collaborating with the Marketing and PR Team to ensure a modern, accessible, and inclusive candidate journey with social media presence
• Establishing and managing key attraction contracts including LinkedIn, TES, Teaching Vacancies and others
• Representing the trust at external forums such as recruitment days to build understanding of the organisation's brand and offering
• Ensuring that standards are maintained by local recruitment administrators through upskilling, audits and compliance checks
• Providing market insight on salary trends, talent availability and competitor activity
• Identifying recruitment challenges and analysing the possible causes
• Forecasting future workforce needs and building future hiring plans
• Advising hiring managers on role design, hiring timelines and attraction strategies
• Introducing new sourcing strategies, pipeline approaches and talent mapping methodologies to reduce reliance on reactive hiring
• Using recruitment metrics and data to identify gaps and trends in attraction strategy
• Leading initiatives to improve efficiency, quality of hire and candidate and stakeholder experience
• Developing and implementing inclusive talent attraction initiatives to ensure a diverse candidate pool, using targeted outreach, employer branding, and inclusive advertising practices

Required experience/qualifications of the HR Manager - Talent Acquisition will include

• CIPD Level 5 qualified or equivalent, or qualified by experience
• Experience of working in a similar role
• Experience within a public sector organisation would be beneficial
• Experience of creating and developing workforce and recruitment strategies

The Talent Acquisition Manager will need to have excellent communication skills and effectively be able to communicate to stakeholders of all levels. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have an impeccable eye for detail and accuracy to ensure all workload is carried out effectively and efficiently. They will also need to able to prioritise their workload and be efficient and effective to meet unpredictable deadlines and deal with conflicting demands, whilst working in a high-pressured environment.

Benefits available alongside the HR Manager - Talent Acquisition position include (but aren't limited to):

• Competitive annual leave entitlement
• Defined benefit pension schemes, including the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Co-op colleague membership, including 30% off selected Co-op branded products and 10% off branded products in Co-op Group food stores
• Employee Assistance Programme for colleagues and members of their household
• Wellbeing support, including mental health resources, Health Assured support, Wisdom Health and Wellbeing App and Mental Health First Aiders
• Occupational sick pay and family-friendly policies
• Free annual flu vaccination and free eye care tests
• Cycle to Work scheme and Nuffield Health gym membership discounts
• Professional development, induction, coaching and career progression opportunities

How to apply for the HR Manager - Talent Acquisition position

If you believe you have the required experience and qualifications outlined above for the HR Manager - Talent Acquisition opportunity, please apply within. Alternatively, if you would like a confidential chat about the role or organisation, please contact Charlotte Broomfield at Sellick Partnership to find out more.

Closing date: 23:59pm, Thursday 16 July 2026

Synonyms: Talent Acquisition Manager, Talent Manager, Talent Attraction Manager, People Manager, People and Talent Manager, Resourcing Manager, Resourcing Business Partner

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.