Recruitment UK Senior Manager-Operations

About Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria, a major Tech player in Europe with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognised for its consulting, digital services and solutions. It helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. The Group provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. In 2025, the Group generated revenues of €5.6 billion.

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Operational Delivery

Overall day to day delivery of the services ensuring KPI’s are consistently delivered across multiple business units

Monitoring the delivery of recruitment services in accordance with the contract, ensuring seamless delivery. Overseeing other service units (Compliance)

Ensuring the team is fully briefed on the contractual recruitment delivery process to include in-scope activities, KPIs, mandatory recruitment activity stages and team responsibilities

Managing operational relationship with core leadership team

Act as an escalation point for delivery lead to work towards any client / business exceptions

Work with the delivery lead to ensure there is an informed view of the forward demand and delivery readiness in terms of capability/capacity

Liaise closely with wider internal stakeholders to maintain effective relationships & achieve organizational objectives

Risk Management of the service

To consolidate the operational plan for assigned process streams and “cross service” supporting activities to give a consolidated plan for delivery of the service

To deliver the service to that plan, proactively monitoring delivery and instigating corrective monitoring should the measures indicate deviation from the plan

To report the operational service across the stakeholders

To liaison for availability of the operational platforms required for service delivery

Continuous Improvement & Lessons learnt

Partnering in Change Management

Analyzing and communicating recruitment trends, results and insights (business unit, client and external market) to drive future recruitment activity, improve compliance and reduce risk

People Management

Recruiting, inducting and training new team members where and when required

Ensuring effective performance optimization of all team members, ensuring all KPIs are set and appropriate development plans are devised and mentoring is provided as required

Career planning and management for team members

Advise and mentor team members

Develop training plan at the team and individual level

To motivate, lead and develop the team and encourage communication

Commercial Delivery of the Service

Manage the operational service to the service levels defined in the contract and any subsequent work packages and change controls in conjunction with SSI’s commercial team

Project specific commercial targets & forecast planning

Total Experience Expected: 10-16 years

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