Managing Consultant – Tech Recruitment | Manchester

Location: Manchester (Hybrid) | Salary: Competitive Basic + Team Performance Bonus + Equity Options

Lead a Team. Own a Market. Shape the Future of Tech Recruitment in Manchester.

This is a serious leadership opportunity for an experienced billing manager ready to take full ownership of a growing tech recruitment operation in Manchester, with the full backing of an established, fast-scaling international business behind them.

At Fruition Group, we work with some of the most exciting technology and advanced engineering businesses across the UK, Ireland, EU and USA. We're now looking for the right person to lead our Manchester Tech function, drive revenue growth, and build a team that sets the standard in the market.

You'll be based in our Manchester office alongside our Advanced Engineering team, working in close collaboration with our Leeds tech team and our specialist tech consultancy, Enablis. The infrastructure, the client base, and the cross-business support are already in place. This is your chance to lead it.

The Opportunity

You'll own the billing performance, revenue growth and margin delivery of Fruition's Manchester Tech recruitment operations across both contract and permanent markets. You'll lead and develop a team of consultants, embed scalable processes, build sustainable pipelines, and help define how Fruition wins in Manchester.

Day to day, you'll work side by side with the Advanced Engineering team sharing your office, maintaining close alignment with the Leeds tech team, and collaborating with Enablis to identify consultancy and statement of work opportunities that complement your team's activity. This is a genuinely connected, cross-functional role with real commercial breadth.

What You'll Be Doing

• Owning the billing, margin and revenue performance of the Manchester Tech function across contract and permanent markets
• Leading, mentoring and managing a mixed team of recruitment consultants, setting clear targets and holding people accountable while coaching them to grow
• Working closely with the Leeds tech team to identify cross-selling opportunities and share market intelligence
• Collaborating with Enablis to identify statements of work and consultancy opportunities that complement your team's recruitment activity
• Sharing office space and collaborating day to day with Fruition's Advanced Engineering team in Manchester
• Building and growing relationships with key clients in the UK and EU tech sector
• Identifying scalable markets and new opportunities within tech to support the team's growth
• Recruiting, onboarding and integrating new team members as the Manchester function scales
• Developing and embedding best practices across the full recruitment lifecycle
• Working with Fruition's BD and sales teams to win new clients and expand existing accounts
• Monitoring key metrics including pipeline health, conversion rates, margin and consultant performance, and course-correcting proactively
• Championing CRM, ATS and performance dashboards to support efficient scaling and visibility
• Feeding local market insights on rates, demand trends and competitor activity into Fruition's broader strategy
• Fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture aligned with Fruition's values

What We're Looking For

Essential

• 2 or more years' experience managing a recruitment team, ideally within tech, engineering or digital sectors
• A demonstrable track record of exceeding billing and margin targets across contract and permanent markets
• Experience scaling or growing a recruitment team in a high-growth environment
• Strong commercial acumen and business development experience; able to win mandates and manage senior client relationships
• Deep understanding of contract and permanent recruitment dynamics including rates, compliance and renewals
• An excellent communicator, coach and stakeholder influencer
• Data-driven and comfortable using dashboards and metrics to guide decisions

Desirable

• Prior experience in a recruitment or staffing scale-up environment
• Experience in tech or engineering recruitment verticals
• An existing network across UK or EU tech
• Familiarity with Fruition's sectors or working methodologies

What's In It For You

• Competitive base salary with team performance bonus and equity options
• Lucrative commission with no thresholds and no caps
• The chance to lead and shape Fruition's tech recruitment presence in Manchester
• Close collaboration with the Leeds tech team and Enablis consultancy
• Shared office environment with Fruition's Advanced Engineering team
• Clear, structured career progression with genuine influence over the business
• In-house L&D and external training courses
• Bi-annual winners' trips to European destinations (previous trips include Marbella, Barcelona & Amsterdam)
• Quarterly lunch clubs for top achievers
• Quarterly team socials
• Flexible hybrid working
• Friday early finish
• Childcare vouchers
• Access to Fruition's brand, market insights, systems and support infrastructure

Ready to Lead?

If you're an experienced billing manager or senior consultant ready to step into a true leadership role, with the platform and support of a fast-growing international business, we'd love to hear from you.

Get in touch for a confidential conversation: lois.gooding@fruitiongroup.com

Fruition Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation or age.