Recruitment Manager

VCCP is the global challenger network for challenger brands. With more than 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. That’s why we bring specialists from every discipline - strategy, AI, data, media, digital, experience, branding, creativity, production, PR, CX, CRM, employee engagement and beyond - into one fully integrated challenger network.

We were founded on the principles of simplicity, collaboration and un-preciousness, and we’ve grown by staying true to them. Today, our clients include some of the world’s most recognisable and progressive brands, such as 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. Across every company and every capability, we share the same ambition: to challenge ourselves, challenge our clients and challenge the industry for the better.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Our role as the Recruitment team is to attract excellent, diverse talent and provide a best-in-class candidate experience from first approach through to life as a VCCP’er.

As a Recruitment Manager with a specialism in Tech, you’ll partner directly with senior management across our Tech, Data, AI, and Product teams to hire exceptional talent that will help shape the future of the agency. We’re looking for someone who combines the curiosity of a headhunter with the commercial mindset of a business partner, thriving in a fast-moving, challenger environment. You will bring the sort of innovation and inspiration to the hiring experience that continues to make us stand out as a world-class network.

While your core focus will be driving technical talent pipelines, you’ll also work closely with the Head of Recruitment and Recruitment Partner on strategic hires outside of the tech space. VCCP utilises a high volume of freelancers across the group; a critical part of your role will be driving initiatives to streamline this freelance process and reduce our overall spend with external agencies.

The Recruitment team works in tandem with the People team day-to-day, but we don’t sit tucked away in a corner - we actively hot-desk around VCCP to embed ourselves with our Hiring Managers and wider teams. You will be a driving force in continuing to raise the profile of the Recruitment team within the Group, ensuring we are looked upon as a trusted, credible, and highly consultative partner for all hires, at all levels.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

End-to-End Delivery & Talent Sourcing

• Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Lead end-to-end recruitment across the VCCP Group for Technology, Data, AI, Product, and Digital hires.
• Direct Sourcing: Proactively direct-source exceptional technical talent using multiple channels, building diverse talent “benches” before immediate vacancies even arise.
• Freelance Optimisation: Act as a driving force to streamline the high-volume freelance recruitment process, tracking and reducing external agency dependency across the group.
• Interview Delivery: Coordinate and conduct hands-on interviewing - from initial first-stage screens, to face-to-face deep dives alongside Hiring Managers.

Stakeholder Partnership & Market Advisory

• Strategic Partnering: Partner with senior stakeholders on long-term hiring strategy, workforce planning, and talent attraction.
• Market Insights: Keep your finger on the pulse of the London job market, competitor movements, and latest recruitment methodologies to advise internal teams.
• Commercial Monitoring: Track salary benchmarking for technical market rates (ensuring utmost discretion with sensitive data) and monitor our overall service to enable measurable targets that demonstrate the team’s commercial impact
• Vendor Management: Evaluate and manage our Tech PSL, ensuring external partners understand VCCP and are qualifying high-calibre talent appropriately.

Candidate Experience & DE&I

• Experience Champion: Continue to drive and safeguard our best-in-class candidate experience, ensuring consistent, constructive, and timely feedback for every applicant.
• Inclusive Hiring: Champion structured interviewing and diversity best practices throughout the entire assessment pipeline
• Community Engagement: Develop networks with external tech communities to build long-term DE&I attraction strategies, representing VCCP by occasionally speaking at public industry events.

Systems, Data & AI Innovation

• Data-Driven Sourcing: Utilise Greenhouse and recruitment data to inform hiring decisions, optimise workflows, and deliver structured pipeline reporting to leadership.
• AI Integration: Actively explore and pilot how emerging AI tools can improve recruitment effectiveness while strictly maintaining a human-centred candidate experience.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with the wider People Team on broader employer brand, early careers, and talent initiatives.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Recruitment: A proven track record either from working in a recruitment agency or inhouse in advertising/marketing; running full-cycle tech recruitment pipelines at pace.
• Technical Literacy: Confident speaking the language of engineering and systems; comfortable evaluating how a candidate’s experience (e.g., Backend, Frontend, UX, AI specialists, Java, Python, or Deltek) aligns with our tech stack.
• Stakeholder Impact: Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with the ability to project credibility, build fast rapport, and deliver results alongside senior leadership.
• Systems Thinking: Advanced user of LinkedIn Recruiter and Applicant Tracking Systems (Greenhouse experience is highly desirable).
• Meticulous Execution: Highly organised with excellent attention to detail - from clean data reporting and file sorting to ensuring interviews are flawlessly formatted.
• The Challenger Mindset: Low ego, high ownership, and a distinct bias for action. You have an appetite for constantly improving processes, pushing the boundaries of traditional recruitment, and embracing AI-enabled ways of working.
• Working knowledge of G Suite (Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Experience in the London job market is highly desirable.

ATTITUDE: 

• 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

VCCP DE&I STATEMENT

We believe that DE&I is about creating a strong culture of inclusion within our agency, 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.

CRIMINAL RECORDS INFORMATION

As part of our onboarding process, you will be required to complete a Criminal Records Declaration regarding any unspent convictions. For roles in finance, HR, Legal, IT or senior management, we may be required to verify your declaration with a basic DBS check, as well as an Adverse Finance and ID check.