Internal Recruiter in Leeds, West Yorkshire

Internal Recruiter
Leeds - predominantly onsite initially, moving to hybrid working
Up to £55,000 DOE + Bonus (typically around £6,000 annually)
Permanent & Full Time

A fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing business where recruitment is a genuine priority and you can make a real impact from day one!

SF Partners are exclusively partnering with an ambitious, growing SME in Leeds to recruit an experienced Recruiter. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who genuinely enjoys the fast-paced, hands-on side of recruitment, thrives on managing multiple vacancies and has the confidence to take ownership of recruitment across a busy and evolving business. With significant growth underway, recruitment is a huge focus for the organisation.

The immediate priority is to bring structure, consistency and quality to the recruitment process, ensuring the business is attracting, assessing and ultimately hiring the right people. Reporting directly to the Head of HR, you'll have the opportunity to really take ownership of the recruitment function, working closely with hiring managers across the business.

What is the longer term opportunity?
Whilst the immediate focus is very much on hands-on, operational recruitment delivery, there is a genuine opportunity for this role to evolve into a broader, more strategic Talent Acquisition position as the business continues to grow. Longer term, you'll have the opportunity to develop a more proactive and forward thinking approach to recruitment, supporting workforce planning, building talent pipelines for future requirements and enhancing the overall candidate experience. You'll also play a key role in developing the organisation's employer brand and attraction strategy, managing recruitment agency relationships and the preferred supplier list (PSL), and identifying opportunities to improve recruitment processes, systems and reporting.

What will you be doing?
- Managing a high volume of vacancies simultaneously, taking ownership of the recruitment process from initial brief through to offer and onboarding.
- Proactively sourcing candidates through job boards, LinkedIn, direct approaches and other recruitment channels.
- Writing engaging job adverts and developing clear, accurate job descriptions.
- Working closely with hiring managers to understand their requirements, challenge expectations where appropriate and establish what a successful hire really looks like.
- Conducting initial candidate screening calls, assessing suitability, experience, motivations and cultural fit.
- Coordinating recruitment activity, managing candidate pipelines and ensuring processes move at pace.
- Supporting hiring managers with recruitment decisions, providing honest advice and ensuring quality isn't compromised by urgency.
- Completing reference checks and supporting pre-employment and onboarding processes.
- Building strong relationships across the business and becoming a trusted point of contact for all things recruitment.
- Introducing greater structure, consistency and accountability to recruitment processes.

What are we looking for?
Personality, confidence and hands-on recruitment experience are absolutely key! We're open-minded on background. You could be an experienced internal recruiter, a Talent Acquisition Specialist or someone coming from a fast-paced recruitment agency environment who is keen to move in-house. What matters most is that you can demonstrate:
- Significant hands-on recruitment experience, ideally managing high volumes of vacancies
- A proven ability to independently manage recruitment processes from start to finish
- Strong candidate sourcing and attraction skills, including experience recruiting for challenging or hard-to-fill positions.
- The confidence to work directly with senior stakeholders and hiring managers, asking the right questions and constructively challenging where needed.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to adapt your approach to different personalities.
- A proactive, resilient and organised approach, with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
- Sound judgement when assessing candidates, with a genuine focus on quality of hire rather than simply filling vacancies.
- A professional, commercially minded approach and the ability to operate comfortably within a structured, corporate working environment
- Experience recruiting within technical, engineering or specialist environments would be beneficial, although this is certainly not essential

If you're an experienced recruiter who likes the sound of the above and wants the opportunity to build something longer term, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact Zoey Bellenger at SF Partners for a confidential conversation.