Recruitment Coordinator - #2180066

Recruitment Coordinator

Manchester

Hybrid Working (3 days in the office)

Fixed Term Contract

What Does the Recruitment Coordinator Role Involve?

As a Recruitment Coordinator, you'll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring a smooth and positive experience for candidates, hiring managers and internal teams. You'll manage recruitment administration, coordinate interviews and onboarding activities, maintain accurate records and help ensure recruitment processes meet client requirements, compliance standards and agreed service levels across a range of RPO and MSP accounts.

What You'll Be Doing

• Coordinating recruitment activity across multiple vacancies, business units and client accounts.
• Managing interview scheduling, assessment centres and virtual or panel interviews.
• Maintaining accurate candidate and vacancy records across recruitment systems and ensuring all stages progress within agreed timelines.
• Acting as a key point of contact for candidates, providing timely updates and responding to queries throughout the recruitment process.
• Preparing recruitment documentation, including interview packs, offer letters and onboarding communications.
• Building strong working relationships with recruiters, hiring managers, HR teams, suppliers and client stakeholders.
• Supporting recruitment administration across contingent workforce, permanent and fixed-term hiring.
• Managing requisitions, approval workflows and candidate submissions where required, while coordinating supplier communications.
• Supporting onboarding and offboarding activities, including pre-employment screening, right-to-work checks, referencing and background verification.
• Tracking onboarding progress, liaising with screening providers and helping resolve delays to ensure candidates are ready to start on time.
• Maintaining accurate records, supporting recruitment reporting and ensuring compliance with client policies, employment legislation and data protection requirements.
• Identifying opportunities to improve recruitment processes, candidate experience and operational efficiency.
• Supporting recruiters with sourcing, candidate engagement and recruitment campaigns where required.

About You

We're looking for an organised and proactive recruitment professional who enjoys coordinating multiple activities, building relationships and ensuring everything runs smoothly. You'll have a strong eye for detail, a customer-focused approach and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining high standards of service.

You'll ideally have:

• Experience in recruitment coordination, recruitment administration or a similar support role.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple vacancies and deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accurate records and documentation.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with confidence dealing with candidates, hiring managers and other stakeholders.
• A customer-focused approach and a commitment to delivering a positive candidate experience.
• Good problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and resolve issues or escalate them when needed.
• Experience using recruitment systems, such as Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and Vendor Management Systems (VMS), alongside Microsoft Office applications.
• An understanding of recruitment processes, compliance requirements and pre-employment checks.
• The ability to work collaboratively with different teams and adapt to changing client requirements.
• A proactive mindset, with an interest in improving processes and supporting effective recruitment delivery.

Benefits We Offer

• Learning & Development – Ongoing training, mentoring and coaching to support your career growth.
• Recognition & Rewards – Group bonus scheme, service awards and colleague recognition programmes.
• Flexible Working – Hybrid working and flexible arrangements to help you balance work and life.
• Health & Financial Benefits – Pension, health and dental plans, cycle-to-work scheme and holiday buy/sell options.
• Family Support – Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
• Social & CSR Activities – Opportunities to get involved in social events, fundraising and community initiatives.
• Wellbeing Support – Employee wellbeing and mental health support through Telus for you and your family.

About Us

With over 40 years of experience, Sanderson provides recruitment, consulting and workforce solutions across a range of industries. Driven by partnership, collaboration and inclusion, we help organisations attract, retain and develop exceptional talent.

At Sanderson, our values underpin everything we do: Collaboration, Bravery, Simplicity, Commitment and Reliability. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.