The opportunity;

Our client within the food manufacturing industry is seeking an experienced Recruitment & Onboarding Manager to lead and embed a best-in-class talent acquisition framework across their UK business.

This is a senior, high-impact role within the People Leadership Team, responsible for delivering an efficient, commercially driven recruitment and onboarding strategy across multiple UK manufacturing sites. You’ll lead a small specialist team, partner closely with senior leaders, and play a key role in ensuring our client attracts, hires and onboards the right talent to support a fast-paced, seasonal FMCG environment.



Key responsibilities:

Recruitment, Attraction & Onboarding*Lead a scalable recruitment strategy aligned to business needs, seasonal demand and workforce planning across multiple sites.
*Deliver high-volume hiring campaigns, building strong talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
*Strengthen employer brand through targeted attraction campaigns, digital channels and community partnerships.
*Embed consistent, compliant and competency-based selection processes, aligned to behaviours.
*Design and deliver an effective end-to-end onboarding experience, tracking impact through retention and engagement metrics.

Process, Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement*Continuously improve recruitment and onboarding processes, optimising technology and data to drive performance (e.g. time to hire, cost per hire, offer acceptance).
*Lead, coach and develop a high-performing recruitment team, role-modelling best practice and company values.
*Partner with senior leaders and HR teams as a trusted advisor, providing insight and reporting on hiring strategy and workforce challenges.

About you;

You’re an experienced recruitment leader who thrives in FMCG or high-volume operational environments. You combine commercial thinking with a hands-on approach and enjoy building scalable solutions in complex, multi-site organisations.

You’re confident influencing senior stakeholders, comfortable with data, and passionate about delivering a strong candidate and hiring manager experience.

Experience & skills

Essential;
*Significant recruitment leadership experience in high-volume environments (e.g. FMCG, logistics, manufacturing)
*Proven delivery of large-scale and strategic recruitment campaigns
*Strong knowledge of recruitment compliance and UK employment law
*Experience designing effective onboarding programmes
*Track record of leading and developing teams
*Data-led approach with strong analytical capability

Desirable*Food manufacturing experience
*ATS implementation experience
*CIPD (or equivalent) qualification
*Multi-site experience

Nigel Wright HR;

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