Recruitment Manager
hace 3 días
London
The Bread Factory is London’s leading Artisan Bakery, known for award-winning breads, pastries, and cakes, supplying top-quality products across e-commerce, grocery, food services, and retailers such as our GAIL’s Bakeries nationwide. We’re on a mission to feed people better — and to become on of the top 5 bakeries in the world. That ambition starts with our people. From expert bakers to manufacturing specialists and support teams, we believe exceptional talent is the key ingredient in everything we do. The Role As Recruitment Manager you will own and deliver the end-to-end recruitment strategy for our bakery and manufacturing operations. You’ll be responsible for attracting and hiring the very best bakers and best-in-class manufacturing talent across technical, engineering, quality, supply chain, and operational support functions. This role is both strategic and hands-on. You’ll build long-term talent pipelines to support growth, innovation, and our evolving ambition to be a more sustainable business — ensuring we have the right skills today and for the future. Every day is different at The Bread Factory, but here are some of the things you will be doing: Recruitment Strategy & Workforce Planning • Own and deliver the recruitment strategy for bakery manufacturing, covering bakers, production, engineering, technical, and manufacturing support roles, • Partner with business and operational leaders to understand current and future capability needs, • Anticipate future skills required to support innovation, automation, and sustainable manufacturing Sourcing & Attraction • Proactively source and attract skilled bakers and best-in-class manufacturing talent using creative, targeted sourcing approaches, • Build robust talent pipelines across core and hard-to-fill manufacturing and support roles, • Strengthen our employer brand as a destination for purpose-led, sustainable manufacturing careers End-to-End Recruitment Delivery • Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role briefing through to offer and onboarding, • Deliver a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience that reflects our purpose, values, and ambition, • Use data and insight to track recruitment effectiveness and inform continuous improvement Sustainability & Future Focus • Embed our sustainability ambition into recruitment strategy and attraction messaging, • Partner with leaders to identify and attract future-focused skills that support sustainable baking and manufacturing practices, • Support initiatives that promote long-term workforce sustainability, capability building, and talent development Stakeholder Partnership • Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing market insight and coaching on best practice, • Collaborate with key stakeholders to align recruitment with wider business and culture initiatives Our team tells us you will be a great addition if you have: Experience & Skills • Proven experience in talent acquisition, ideally within manufacturing, food production, or FMCG, • Experience recruiting across both operational and support functions, • Strong sourcing capability and a track record of building talent pipelines, • Ability to think strategically while remaining hands-on and delivery focused, • Lead and coach a team to deliver overall Talent strategy Personal Attributes • Passion for purpose-led recruitment and building future-ready teams, • Strong commercial and stakeholder management skills, • Curious mindset with an interest in sustainability, innovation, and continuous improvement, • A natural connector who enjoys being close to the business Why Join Us? • Shape the people strategy behind an ambitious, world-class bakery business, • Make a tangible impact on how we grow, innovate, and operate sustainably, • Help bring our mission to life: to feed people better
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