Recruitment Manager/Senior Manager

Job Description The Bread Factory is London’s leading Artisan Bakery, known for award-winning breads, pastries, and cakes, supplying top-quality products across e-commerce, grocery, food services, and retailers such as our GAIL’s Bakeries nationwide. We’re on a mission to feed people better — and to become on of the top 5 bakeries in the world. From expert bakers to manufacturing specialists and support teams, we believe exceptional talent is the key ingredient in everything we do. As Recruitment Manager you will own and deliver the end-to-end recruitment strategy for our bakery and manufacturing operations. You’ll be responsible for attracting and hiring the very best bakers and best-in-class manufacturing talent across technical, engineering, quality, supply chain, and operational support functions. You’ll build long-term talent pipelines to support growth, innovation, and our evolving ambition to be a more sustainable business — ensuring we have the right skills today and for the future. Recruitment Strategy & Workforce Planning Own and deliver the recruitment strategy for bakery manufacturing, covering bakers, production, engineering, technical, and manufacturing support roles Proactively source and attract skilled bakers and best-in-class manufacturing talent using creative, targeted sourcing approaches Build robust talent pipelines across core and hard-to-fill manufacturing and support roles Strengthen our employer brand as a destination for purpose-led, sustainable manufacturing careers End-to-End Recruitment Delivery Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role briefing through to offer and onboarding Deliver a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience that reflects our purpose, values, and ambition Use data and insight to track recruitment effectiveness and inform continuous improvement Embed our sustainability ambition into recruitment strategy and attraction messaging Support initiatives that promote long-term workforce sustainability, capability building, and talent development Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing market insight and coaching on best practice Collaborate with key stakeholders to align recruitment with wider business and culture initiatives Proven experience in talent acquisition, ideally within manufacturing, food production, or FMCG Strong sourcing capability and a track record of building talent pipelines Lead and coach a team to deliver overall Talent strategy Passion for purpose-led recruitment and building future-ready teams Strong commercial and stakeholder management skills Shape the people strategy behind an ambitious, world-class bakery business Help bring our mission to life: to feed people better