Location: Wakefield (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week (No weekends)
Salary: £38,000 - £48,000 per annum (DOE)

Are you an experienced recruitment leader who’s passionate about creating an exceptional candidate journey and shaping high‑performing recruitment practices? At Minster Law, we’re looking for a proactive, people‑focused Recruitment Manager to lead our internal recruitment function and help us attract exceptional talent into the business.

About the Role

As our Recruitment Manager, you’ll drive the delivery of an efficient, engaging, and high‑quality recruitment service for both internal stakeholders and candidates. You’ll lead a talented team, ensuring operational excellence while continuously seeking new ways to innovate, improve, and enhance how we attract and hire brilliant people.

You’ll also act as a key partner to our external providers, including our ATS provider (TeamTailor) and agency partners. You'll also work closely with our Senior HR Operations Manager to implement strategic People initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Translate the People strategy into clear recruitment initiatives and ensure they are effectively embedded.

• Drive continuous improvement in recruitment processes, sourcing methods, and candidate engagement.

• Strengthen our employer brand by partnering with Marketing to engage both active and passive candidates.

• Oversee end‑to‑end recruitment delivery, championing a high‑quality and positive candidate experience.

Team Leadership

• Lead and support a team including, Recruitment and Talent Lead, Recruiters, and a Recruitment Administrator.

• Drive performance, coaching, development, and engagement across the team.

Data, Insights & Governance

• Use people data to inform decisions, track recruitment performance (e.g., time‑to‑hire, cost‑per‑hire), and identify risks or bottlenecks.

• Collaborate with the HR Data & MI Analyst to ensure reporting is accurate, insightful, and supports continuous improvement.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• Proven experience delivering end‑to‑end recruitment in a fast‑paced environment, ideally in‑house.

• Experience leading and developing a high‑performing recruitment team.

• Strong knowledge of recruitment strategy, sourcing techniques, and candidate experience best practice.

• Excellent data analysis capabilities, including confident use of Excel (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables).

• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of employment legislation relevant to recruitment and onboarding.

• A collaborative, solution‑focused, highly organised approach—and a genuine passion for delivering outstanding recruitment outcomes.

If you're driven and excited by the opportunity to shape and elevate recruitment within a growing business, we’d love to hear from you.

What Minster Law Will Offer You

• 35‑hour working week (no weekends)

• 25 days annual leave plus the opportunity to take 12 “time for me” days

• Option to purchase up to 5 additional holiday days

• Colleague and business performance‑related bonus

• Matched pension contributions

• Health cash plan

• Life assurance

• Income protection

• Agile working opportunities

• A fantastic, energetic team and a supportive environment to grow your career

Equal Opportunities

Minster Law is committed to equality and diversity and being a workplace that creates a sense of belonging for everyone.

We’re an equal opportunity and disability confident employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, neurodiversity, or disability status.

You can read more about our commitment to equality and diversity on the Minster Law website.