Recruitment Business Partner
Location: London
Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 per year
We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and confident Recruitment Business Partner to join our growing team. This is a highly visible, customer-facing role where you will deliver tailored recruitment solutions and play a key role in shaping talent strategies for your clients.
As a trusted advisor, you will act as the ‘go to’ contact for all recruitment activity, building strong relationships with stakeholders and driving a high-quality, end-to-end recruitment service. You will be fully embedded within your customer base, proactively influencing hiring decisions and ensuring an exceptional experience for both candidates and hiring managers.
The Role
As a Recruitment Business Partner, you will partner closely with stakeholders to guide recruitment strategy, improve processes, and deliver against hiring needs. You will provide insight-driven recommendations, support workforce planning, and take ownership of recruitment delivery from brief through to onboarding.
Your ability to understand customer needs, market dynamics, and recruitment best practice will enable you to add real value while continuously improving service outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day recruitment activity, coordinating closely with multi-disciplinary support and delivery teams.
- Deliver a robust, end-to-end recruitment process while analysing data to continuously improve outcomes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing market insight and guidance on attraction strategies.
- Lead role briefing sessions, shaping sourcing and selection approaches to secure the best talent.
- Monitor onboarding activity to ensure a positive experience for candidates and hiring teams.
- Deliver against SLAs and KPIs, maintaining high standards of service at all times.
- Maximise direct sourcing activity to reduce reliance on third-party agencies.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and key customer stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to enhance services, improve processes, and expand account scope.
- Produce insightful reports and updates to support decision-making and demonstrate value.
About You
- Proven experience in a fast-paced recruitment environment (in-house, RPO, or MSP).
- Strong track record of managing complex recruitment requirements and stakeholder relationships.
- Ability to analyse recruitment data and translate insights into effective hiring strategies.
- Experience improving recruitment processes and driving continuous service enhancements.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong understanding of market trends, sourcing strategies, and recruitment best practice.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities and demand peaks.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary and bonus scheme, you will also benefit from:
- Hybrid working
- Company pension scheme
- Flexible benefits package (including holiday buy/sell, gym discounts, cycle to work scheme, health cash plan, and employee discounts)
- Regular social events and community initiatives
- Ongoing personal development and clear career progression opportunities
About Us
Established 40 years ago, we offer industry expertise in recruitment, solutions, consulting and executive search. The cornerstone of our business is our partnership approach. It’s what brings together our four divisions, and what sets us apart.
We’re all about human interactions and lasting relationships. We’re flexible, agile and creative. We’re collaborative – working together to understand and support each other – and our clients.
Sanderson Solutions provides RPO, MSP, Executive Search, Agency Recruitment and Project services across a wide range of industry sectors, including Financial Services, Technology, Retail and Consumer, Government and Defence, Professional Services and many more. We help our clients to hire the high-quality people who develop quickly, care more and stay longer!
We really care about building inclusive and diverse teams and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. Our success at Sanderson is based on our people who bring with them a range of ideas and experiences. What unites us is the spirit of partnership, working together to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
