Internal Recruiter

Business: emap

Base Location: Croydon, London

Employment Type: Part-time, Permanent/Hybrid (3 Days office)

Salary: £Competitive DOE + Benefits

The Internal Recruiter is responsible for managing the Company s end-to-end recruitment function, attracting, assessing, and hiring high-quality talent aligned with business objectives and organisational culture. The role leads and delivers a direct hire strategy to reduce overall recruitment spend and minimise reliance on external agencies, while enhancing and reinforcing the Group Employer Brand.

Partnering closely with hiring managers across the business, the Internal Recruiter ensures all recruitment and selection activities are delivered in line with best practice, company policy, and relevant employment legislation. The role provides expert guidance on workforce planning, sourcing strategies, candidate assessment, and market insights to support effective hiring decisions and improve quality of hire.

This position is driven to inspire and influence future talent to join the Metropolis Group through creative, engaging, and cost-effective attraction approaches. With a strong customer-focused mindset, the Internal Recruiter delivers a high level of service to both internal stakeholders and external candidates, ensuring a positive and professional recruitment experience.

Overall, the role is accountable for maintaining an efficient, effective, and cost-conscious recruitment process that strengthens talent pipelines, supports organisational growth, and positions the Metropolis Group as a stand-out employer within the job market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with hiring managers and senior leadership to understand resourcing needs, manage vacancy approvals, and deliver recruitment campaigns aligned to individual role requirements and agreed timescales.
• Manage full-cycle recruitment across sales, editorial, marketing, events, digital, and support functions sourcing, screening, interviewing support, offer management, and onboarding coordination.
• Drive a direct hire strategy by proactively sourcing candidates via LinkedIn, social media, internal websites, job boards, referrals, and talent pipelines.
• Expert in proactive sourcing, leveraging headhunting strategies to identify, engage, and attract top-tier candidates for critical roles across multiple departments.
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines, engaging passive and speculative candidates and promoting cross-divisional internal mobility and redeployment opportunities.
• Enhance and promote the Group employer brand by ensuring all job descriptions and adverts are inclusive, non-discriminatory, on-brand, and aligned with best practice.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve the user experience and content of the Careers website and wider recruitment marketing activity.
• Ensure a fair, consistent, legally compliant, and GDPR-aligned recruitment process across the organisation; provide training and coaching to hiring managers on interviewing and selection best practice.
• Monitor, analyse, and report on recruitment metrics (including time-to-fill and cost savings) to the Group Recruitment Manager and Group HR Manager on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Regularly review recruitment processes to drive continuous improvement, including gathering feedback from new joiners and leavers.
• Work collaboratively with Senior HR Advisers and adhere to all Company policies, including Anti-Bribery and Corruption, undertaking additional duties as required.

Skills and experience:

• Clear and demonstrable achievements in the recruitment industry in a commercial environment, preferably in a media and B2B marketplace
• Evidence of success in building and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to prioritise and manage a high-volume workload
• Clear and demonstrable experience and understanding of managing on-line and social media led recruitment campaigns
• Good knowledge of all recruitment advertising methods
• Experience of developing and nurturing candidate relationships, advocating and promoting the company and brands
• An interest or knowledge in the media sector is preferable but not essential
• Strong influencing skills
• Good knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with the ability to report performance and metrics
• Strong knowledge of GDPR regulations and IR35 legislation, ensuring compliance throughout the recruitment and employment process.
• Proven experience of delivering cost effective and professional recruitment campaigns in a fast-paced commercial environment

Personal Specifications:

• An interest or knowledge in the media sector is preferable but not essential; however, the ideal candidate will have the drive and curiosity to quickly learn about how the industry works.
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to influence, encourage and persuade.
• Organisational awareness with the ability to operate with confidence and credibility across all levels and functions of the Company.
• Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills is essential, with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, and to demonstrate an effective and cost-conscious approach to addressing issues.
• Pro-active, organised, enthusiastic and hardworking
• Resourceful and purposeful, with initiative, drive and a strong desire to deliver exceptional results.
• A team player both internally and externally.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, resourcefulness, and creativity.

What we offer

Learning & Development:

At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.

Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organisational objectives.

To support our employees career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy.

Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together, we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.

25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days

One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day

Health plan

Life assurance

Private virtual GP access

Seasonal flu jabs available at the office

Continuous learning & development opportunities

In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects

Cycle-to-work scheme

Discounted gym memberships

Retail discount vouchers

Rail season ticket loans

Pension scheme

One paid volunteer day per year

Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations

Work from home during August

Income protection and more

Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

How to apply: Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.