Job title - Recruitment Manager
Location - near Watford, Herts (hybrid working)
Salary - Excellent salary + benefits
At IGD, we're proud to be a Great Place to Work, where our people are empowered to grow, inspired to lead and ready to make a difference. At the heart of that experience is how we attract, welcome, and support new colleagues to join us.
That's where you come in.
We're looking for a Recruitment Manager who will bring energy, care, and expertise to the full recruitment journey. This is from finding and attracting brilliant talent, to creating exceptional candidate experiences, ensuring new colleagues feel inspired and ready from day one. This is a hands-on role where you'll lead every part of the process, shaping the way we recruit, and the way people experience IGD.
What you'll do
* Champion candidate experiences ensuring every person who interacts with IGD feels respected, valued, and inspired, whether they join us or not.
* Attract and engage top talent bringing creativity and fresh ideas to sourcing, campaigns, and outreach, so we continue to build diverse, brilliant teams.
* Manage the end-to-end process from writing compelling job ads, sourcing and screening, running interviews, through to offers and onboarding.
* Deliver exceptional onboarding creating a welcoming, seamless start that reflects our culture and sets new joiners up for success.
* Design and coordinate onboarding materials and programmes ensuring every new colleague has the right information, connections, and inspiration to thrive.
* Use data and insight analysing trends and outcomes to influence our recruitment approach, strengthen decision-making, and continuously improve.
* Shape and deliver a progressive recruitment strategy that evolves with our business needs and keeps IGD at the forefront of attracting great talent.
* Represent IGD's brand role-modelling our behaviours in every interaction: we're hungry for better, we say what needs to be said, we solve it together, and we make it happen.
* Partner with leaders providing expert advice, building trust, and ensuring every hire strengthens our culture and capability.
What we're looking for
* Hands-on recruitment experience across the full hiring cycle.
* A natural ability to build trust and put people at ease.
* Creativity and resilience in finding and attracting the best talent.
* Proven experience in delivering brilliant candidate care and onboarding.
* Experience creating onboarding programmes and materials.
* Confidence in advising and influencing managers.
* Ability to use data and insights to inform decisions and influence outcomes.
* Energy, positivity, and commitment to our values and behaviours.
* Advanced Linkedin Recruiter experience.
* Experience recruiting across a number of functions in a business.
The rewards
We offer a range of benefits, including a market leading pension, a bonus scheme, the ability to buy and sell annual leave plus a generous medical insurance package. You will have a great work-life balance, where you are empowered & trusted to manage your time.
The location
We are operating a hybrid approach to working with a mix of home and office-based working. We are based in a very accessible location within the M25, just 20 miles from central London
Our behaviours
We're hungry for better
We solve it together
We make it happen
We say what needs to be said
More about our people
We're looking for inspiring professionals; talented people who seek personal and career growth and are ambitious to develop their potential and unlock opportunities for society, for our clients and themselves.
We seek and attract the very best people and create an environment that supports and includes them. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their contribution. We welcome applications from diverse candidates. Please discuss any adjustments that you may require throughout the selection and assessment process.
More about IGD
We are a strategic insight foresight and learning organisation. Here to unite the industry and benefit society. We invest all our profit into Social Impact.
We foster collaboration through a broad range of forums, bringing together businesses, policymakers, and thought leaders. By providing evidence-based insights, credible research, and strategic foresight, we help organisations make informed decisions that benefit their operations and contribute to the collective good of society.