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About the Role
As a Recruitment Manager specializing in Tech, you will partner directly with senior management across our Tech, Data, AI, and Product teams to hire exceptional talent. Your role is crucial in shaping the future of the agency by combining the curiosity of a headhunter with the commercial mindset of a business partner in a fast-moving, challenger environment. You will innovate and inspire the hiring experience, drive technical talent pipelines, and optimize the high-volume freelance recruitment process. You will also raise the profile of the Recruitment team, ensuring it is viewed as a trusted, credible, and consultative partner.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for Technology, Data, AI, Product, and Digital hires across the VCCP Group.
- Proactively direct-source exceptional technical talent using multiple channels, building diverse talent "benches".
- Streamline the high-volume freelance recruitment process and reduce external agency dependency.
- Coordinate and conduct interviewing, from initial screens to deep dives with Hiring Managers.
- Partner with senior stakeholders on long-term hiring strategy, workforce planning, and talent attraction.
- Advise internal teams by monitoring the London job market, competitor movements, and recruitment methodologies.
- Track salary benchmarking for technical market rates and monitor service delivery for measurable targets.
- Evaluate and manage the Tech PSL, ensuring external partners understand VCCP and qualify high-calibre talent.
- Drive and safeguard a best-in-class candidate experience with consistent, constructive, and timely feedback.
- Champion structured interviewing and diversity best practices throughout the assessment pipeline.
- Develop networks with external tech communities to build long-term DE&I attraction strategies.
- Utilise Greenhouse and recruitment data to inform hiring decisions and optimise workflows.
- Explore and pilot AI tools to improve recruitment effectiveness while maintaining a human-centred candidate experience.
- Partner with the wider People Team on employer brand, early careers, and talent initiatives.
Requirements
- Proven track record in running full-cycle tech recruitment pipelines at pace, either from a recruitment agency or in-house role within advertising/marketing.
- Confident in speaking the language of engineering and systems.
- Comfortable evaluating how a candidate’s experience aligns with our tech stack.
- Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with the ability to project credibility and build rapport with senior leadership.
- Advanced user of LinkedIn Recruiter and Applicant Tracking Systems (Greenhouse experience is highly desirable).
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Low ego, high ownership, and a distinct bias for action.
- Appetite for constantly improving processes and pushing the boundaries of traditional recruitment.
- Embrace AI-enabled ways of working.
- Working knowledge of G Suite (Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, Slides).
- Experience in the London job market is highly desirable.
- A passion for Recruitment and the advertising industry.
- A proactive and challenger mindset.
- Resilience to keep going in a fast-paced environment.
- Strives for excellence.
- Can-do attitude.
- Approachable and personable.
- Builds rapport and is able to quickly establish excellent working relationships.
- Team player.
- Must complete a Criminal Records Declaration regarding any unspent convictions as part of the onboarding process.
- May require a basic DBS check, Adverse Finance and ID check for roles in finance, HR, Legal, IT or senior management.
Skills
- Tech Recruitment
- Direct Sourcing
- Freelance Recruitment
- Interviewing
- Stakeholder Management
- Market Research
- Salary Benchmarking
- Vendor Management
- Candidate Experience
- DE&I Best Practices
- Data Analysis
- AI Tools in Recruitment
- Employer Branding
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- Greenhouse
- G Suite
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- VCCP is the global challenger network for challenger brands, with over 1,500 people across 13 offices in North America, EMEA, and APAC.
- We challenge convention to create value for the world’s most ambitious organisations.
- Our founding belief is It Only Works If It All Works, integrating specialists from strategy, AI, data, media, digital, experience, branding, creativity, production, PR, CX, CRM, employee engagement, and beyond.
- Founded on principles of simplicity, collaboration, and un-preciousness.
- Clients include Virgin Media O2, Barclays, Cadbury, Compare the Market, Domino’s, White Claw, easyJet, Primark, and Co-op.
- VCCP has topped the AAR’s annual new business ranking in 13 of the last 14 years and holds multiple Agency of the Year titles.
- We share an ambition to challenge ourselves, our clients, and the industry for the better.
Equal Opportunity
- VCCP believes that DE&I is about creating a strong culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive and be their authentic self.
- VCCP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or ethnicity.
- If you require any adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know via joinus@vccp.com.