Recruitment Co-ordinator

Sewell Wallis is partnering with a large South Yorkshire manufacturing business based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in their search for a Recruitment Co-ordinator.

This is a new role within a proactive, friendly and busy HR team. A key member of the HR team, responsible for leading and coordinating SMP’s end-to-end recruitment and talent activity, supporting the organisation’s ambition to double headcount over the next 2–3 years. Deliver an organised, efficient and positive recruitment experience for candidates and hiring managers through clear communication, accurate records and timely coordination. Strengthen long-term talent capability by improving job descriptions, agency partnerships, succession planning, attraction campaigns and recruitment events.

What will you be doing?

• Develop and deliver a recruitment and talent strategy aligned with business growth plans, including a clear roadmap to support the planned doubling of headcount over the next 2–3 years.
• Lead recruitment activity across all functions, delivering timely, high-quality appointments that meet operational and strategic workforce needs.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to create, review and maintain clear, accurate and fit-for-purpose job descriptions.
• Work with hiring managers to strengthen workforce planning, interview quality, candidate assessment and hiring decisions.
• Support with digitalising the recruitment and on-boarding process
• Work with occupational health to ensure that pre-offer medicals are co-ordinated & offers issued in a timely manner
• Ensure that references & background checks are obtained before candidate start dates
• Coordinate interviews across multiple diaries and locations, ensuring candidates and hiring teams receive clear details and timely updates on next steps.
• Complete authority-to-recruit documentation and post approved vacancies on appropriate internal and external channels.
• Support candidate screening, assessment administration and pre-employment checks, maintaining confidentiality and complying with data-protection requirements.
• Establish, review and manage an effective preferred supplier list (PSL), ensuring agency partners are commercially appropriate and aligned with business requirements.
• Build sustainable talent pipelines through direct sourcing, community engagement, education partnerships, referrals and external recruitment channels.
• Work with HR to create and monitor the people budget against forecast.

What skills do we need?

• CIPD qualification, degree-level education or equivalent relevant experience in HR or recruitment coordination.
• Significant recruitment experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• A proven record of delivering high-volume and specialist recruitment campaigns that support business growth.
• Experience of creating job descriptions, managing agency relationships and implementing effective preferred supplier arrangements.
• Experience of succession planning, talent mapping and developing pipelines for critical roles.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to partner effectively across HR, operations and leadership teams.
• Excellent organisation and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple vacancies, campaigns and competing priorities.
• Confidence using recruitment systems, reporting tools and data to monitor performance, generate insight and support decisions.

What’s on offer?

• Excellent package including a market-leading salary and a generous bonus package paid quarterly
• Flexible start and finish times
• Pension matched up to 8%

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To apply, please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry. We offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance, from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. We are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions

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