Talent Acquisition Manager

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

Contract: Permanent

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

Sellick Partnership is exclusively recruiting for an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to join our client based in Manchester on a 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.

• 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 Linked In, 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

• CIPD Level 5 qualified or equivalent, or qualified by experience
• Experience of working in a similar role
• Experience with in 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 be 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.

• 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
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