Recruitment and Skills Manager (Remote)

  • BDS (Northern) Limited
  • City, Leeds
  • Mar 18, 2026
Full time HR / Recruitment

Job Description

BDS have a fantastic opportunity for a Recruitment and Skills Manager to work for a national public sector organisation.

This is a remote role with occasional travel to the head office in West Yorkshire

Salary 60K 65K

Contract: 6 month fixed term with a view to becoming permanent after a satisfactory term.

The role

The role holder will lead in delivering a proactive and high-quality service to to attract, assess, and select top talent, ensuring alignment with the organization s values, diversity goals, and workforce plans.

The role will design, maintain, continuously improve and deliver solutions which underpin forward thinking and robust talent acquisition and talent pools.

Furthermore, the role will lead the design and delivery of compliance, apprenticeship and qualification interventions which support colleagues to have a first class colleague experience.

The role holder will be expected to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders as well as external partners, manage budgets, resources, and reporting related to capability interventions.

You will coach and mentor team members to build capabilities which align to business need, capability gaps and future requirements whilst promoting a positive and inclusive workplace culture

Key Responsibilities

  • Offer comprehensive consultation services to stakeholders at all levels around performance, compliance, capability, change, and development.
  • Lead the delivery of organizational assessments to identify areas where the organization requires development that supports business goals and workforce planning.
  • Contribute to the early careers and workforce strategies
  • Lead the development and implementation of interventions, including qualifications, to enhance colleague skills, knowledge, and competence that contribute to their technical ability.
  • Ensure data and insight for tracking skills, qualifications, and compliance is used effectively
  • Lead the full recruitment lifecycle from role scoping and advertising to offer management and onboarding of all colleagues, managers, and leaders.
  • Monitor recruiter and facilitator effectiveness and delegate performance metrics.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement and help the team to maintain standards of excellence and best practice.
  • Analyse data and create reports to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.

Criteria:

  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing
  • Knowledge and experience of application of assessment and psychometric tools
  • Organisational development, employee experience and engagement
  • People development including skills and capability mapping and frameworks
  • Understanding of employer brand, EVP and candidate NPS
  • Knowledge of resourcing, candidate experience and selection tools
  • Evidence based practice and data analysis including identifying patterns and trends
  • Enhancement of onboarding and career strategies
  • Understanding of employee lifecycle and touchpoints
  • Project plan development
  • Future focused with courage to challenge
  • Decisive thinker and collaborative
  • CIPD Level 5 or equivalent proven experience in HR, L&D, OD or Talent roles

Please apply now for immediate consideration or call Vickie for a confidential introduction