via Indeed · 2 October 2026 ·4 days ago

Candidate Manager

Compass Talent
Manchester Full-time
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Candidate Manager \| Manchester \| Hybrid initially \| Competitive salary

Build and manage the workforce behind our temporary recruitment clients. Compass Talent is building a specialist temporary recruitment and workforce division across travel, hospitality and leisure.

We're looking for a highly organised Candidate Manager who can help us build and manage a reliable temporary workforce. This role is fundamentally different from permanent recruitment.

We're not simply looking for candidates. We're looking for people who are: Available. Compliant. Reliable. Suitable. Engaged.

The opportunity

You'll help build candidate communities across our specialist sectors and maintain them so that when a client needs staff, we can respond quickly.

What you'll be responsible for

  • Sourcing temporary workers

  • Advertising temporary vacancies

  • Screening candidates

  • Conducting candidate calls

  • Checking availability

  • Building candidate pools

  • Managing candidate databases

  • Maintaining candidate engagement

  • Supporting onboarding

  • Coordinating right\-to\-work and compliance processes

  • Confirming workers for shifts

  • Monitoring attendance

  • Managing cancellations and replacements

  • Communicating shift information

  • Reactivating existing workers

  • Supporting temporary recruitment consultants

  • Maintaining accurate CRM records
Speed matters typically a client will contact us at 10:00am and need 15 people tomorrow.

Your job is to help us answer "Who do we have available?" You should enjoy working at pace and solving problems.

What we're looking for

You might have experience in:

  • Temporary recruitment

  • Hospitality recruitment

  • Workforce staffing management

  • Candidate resourcing

  • High\-volume recruitment

  • Travel
Recruitment experience is useful, but isn't essential. We're looking for someone who is:
  • Highly organised

  • Fast and responsive

  • Confident on the phone

  • Comfortable speaking to large numbers of candidates

  • Detail\-focused

  • Calm under pressure

  • Proactive

  • Good at building relationships

  • Comfortable working with targets
What you'll get
  • Competitive salary and uncapped commission

  • Specialist recruitment environment

  • Training and development

  • Hybrid working

  • Manchester based team

  • Career progression

  • Opportunity to progress
The career path

You'll learn how to build and manage a workforce before progressing into client management and commercials behind recruitment.

Pay: £32,000\.00\-£80,000\.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Manchester, Greater Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person

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