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Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

The Direct Recruiter is responsible for proactively sourcing permanent candidates externally for approved roles, as well as managing all applicants from our direct advertising to ensure that the business have a suitable number of high-quality candidates for each position under management.

As our Direct Recruiters own all elements of a candidate relationship, they are responsible for managing the candidate through the recruitment process including sourcing, briefing, shortlisting, CV feedback, interview preparation and offer management.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the single point of contact in providing an end to end recruitment service to identified business areas
  • Responsible for the full recruitment lifecycle form an audit, information, and accountability purposes.
  • Regularly engage with line managers to understand client group’s needs
  • Recruitment Process Management utilizing our ATS
  • Ensuring appropriate levels of signoff prior to commencing job search
  • Proactively source candidates via multi-media advertising, referrals, internal and external networking, database, candidate portal to effectively contribute to the target for direct recruitment
  • Build and maintain RS candidate database by building up “talentpools” using the CRM
  • Continue to develop innovative methods to attract top talent
  • Participate in role briefings to enable a more efficient search
  • Screen CVs in line with the line manager & business requirements and arrange interviews as appropriate
  • Process and Procedure compliance: Managing the offer process – including providing up-to-date salary/rate and market information and comparison data from recent hires in the business area
  • Liaise with the relevant function to hand over candidates for on boarding and monitor progress to start date
  • Ensure thorough and complete tracking history of every applicant progress, contact and feedback
  • Project work and reporting, as given by the business and Account Manager, on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
  • Ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets.
  • Ensuring the ATS are always accurate and up to date.
  • Ensure compliance with all Client policies (including approval systems, compensation policies, e-mail policies etc.)
  • Keep abreast of market trends and legislative developments


Local Requirements

  • Service and delivery focused with very professional attitude essential.
  • Excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills essential.
  • Prioritising effectively is an essential skill.
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines is an essential skill.
  • Experience of working in a client/ customer care environment highly desirable.
  • Excellent team player. Must also be people orientated.
  • Able to work autonomously.
  • Organised and methodical with a strong attention to detail.
  • Interest in business issues and motivated to add commercial value.
  • Able to provide an effective, professional, and timely response to the client and candidates.
  • Highly responsive with excellent ability to absorb information quickly.
  • Confident with the ability to work well in a demanding environment


Benefits:

  • A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
  • A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
  • Private medical insurance
  • A fantastic training and development programme
  • Volunteer time off
  • The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
  • Employee wellbeing through various programmes
  • You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP


As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.

This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

Robert Walters - Global Talent Solutions

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Contract Type: Permanent

Specialism: Human Resources

Focus: Recruitment

Industry: Human Resources and Personnel

Salary: Competitive Package

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Associate

Language: English - Professional working

Location: Manchester

Job Reference: 7556

Date posted: 25 November 2025

Consultant: Nic Farmer