About Olive Jar
Olive Jar Digital supports complex public-sector programmes by bringing together specialist digital capability and high-performing teams.
As our work continues to grow, we're looking for a Talent Manager who can build digital talent networks, understand our clients' future capability needs and use market knowledge to help Olive Jar make better resourcing and commercial decisions.
The Role
As Talent Manager, you'll take ownership of talent across contractor, permanent and fixed-term opportunities, supporting both live client requirements and future workforce needs.
The role is built around five areas:
1. Find exceptional talent
Identify, engage and secure high-quality digital talent across contractor, permanent & fixed-term roles.
You'll manage the recruitment lifecycle from initial sourcing and outreach through interviews, offers, onboarding and placement, ensuring candidates receive a professional and positive experience throughout.
You'll:
Source and headhunt candidates across specialist digital disciplines
Manage multiple roles and candidate pipelines simultaneously
Ensure momentum across each stage of the recruitment process
Maintain accurate candidate and recruitment information within our CRM/ATS
Balance speed of recruitment with candidate quality and client requirements
2. Build specialist talent communities
Develop and maintain strong talent pipelines, taking ownership of defined areas of digital capabilities, building strong networks and developing the knowledge to become a trusted specialist.
You'll:
Develop networks around priority digital skills and capabilities
Nurture relationships with candidates beyond individual vacancies
Map talent against potential future client and programme requirements
Develop specialist knowledge that can support colleagues, clients and bid teams
3. Partner with delivery
Work closely with our delivery teams and clients to understand what talent they need today and what they are likely to need next.
Rather than simply responding to vacancies, you'll help anticipate requirements and develop pipelines before demand arises.
You'll:
Build strong relationships with delivery leads, clients and hiring managers
Understand role requirements and the capabilities needed within project teams
Maintain visibility of upcoming workforce requirements
Advise stakeholders on candidate availability and recruitment considerations
Ensure Olive Jar consistently puts forward high-quality people who meet client needs
4. Advise with market insight
You'll understand what's happening across the digital talent market and turn that knowledge into useful advice for the wider business.
You'll:
Monitor candidate availability, skills demand and market rates
Identify emerging recruitment risks and opportunities
Share relevant market intelligence with delivery and senior colleagues
Keep rate information current and support the development of our rate cards
Apply commercial judgement when balancing candidate quality, market rates and client requirements
5. Deliver commercially
Talent is fundamental to how Olive Jar delivers for our clients. You'll understand the commercial implications of recruitment decisions as well as candidate quality.
You'll:
Work within agreed rate cards and commercial parameters
Apply commercial judgement when balancing candidate quality, market rates and client requirements
Support recruitment activity against agreed hiring deadlines
Maintain accurate pipeline information to support workforce and commercial planning
What We're Looking For
Experience in recruitment, talent acquisition or workforce delivery
Experience recruiting across contractor and permanent markets
Strong sourcing, headhunting and candidate-engagement skills
Confidence building relationships with clients, candidates and internal stakeholders
Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple recruitment streams
Commercial awareness of market rates and resourcing decisions
Excellent attention to detail and understanding of recruitment and onboarding processes
It would be great if you also have
Experience recruiting into public-sector organisations, consultancies or government programmes
Knowledge of contractor markets, IR35 and contingent workforce models
Experience recruiting specialist digital or technology roles
Experience using recruitment systems and candidate databases
Experience contributing recruitment or market insight to bids, proposals or workforce planning
What We Offer
Salary £50k pa DOE
Employee benefits including access to healthcare plan, electric car scheme and free gym membership from a vast selection of Gym near work and home or both!
Performance-based incentives
Hybrid working
The opportunity to support impactful public-sector programmes
A collaborative and supportive team
The opportunity to develop specialist talent-market expertise
Clear progression opportunities as Olive Jar grows
Skills Required
- Experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, or workforce delivery
- Experience recruiting across contractor and permanent markets
- Strong sourcing, headhunting, and candidate-engagement skills
- Confidence building relationships with clients, candidates, and internal stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple recruitment streams in an organized manner
- Commercial awareness of market rates and resourcing decisions
- Excellent attention to detail and understanding of recruitment and onboarding processes
- Experience recruiting into public-sector organisations, consultancies, or government programmes
- Knowledge of contractor markets, IR35, and contingent workforce models
- Experience recruiting specialist digital or technology roles
- Experience using recruitment systems and candidate databases
- Experience contributing recruitment or market insight to bids, proposals, or workforce planning
What We Do
Olive Jar Digital has extensive experience in building highly secure, resilient, highly available and scalable websites. We focus on user experience and only build what the end user needs and understands. We deliver our projects using the Agile methodology, in particular Scrum and Kanban. This enables us to deliver on time, on budget and focus on priorities that could shift at any moment. The consultants we engage are either people that we have worked with over the years, have been recommended based on their performance, or have been interviewed and tested by us first. With Olive Jar you get a professional, honest service where we look to build a relationship with you and support you over the years to come. We believe that in order to track the quality of performance effectively, our delivery team, the end client, and our account management team need to buy into a Continual Service Feedback and Improvement ethos. The resources we can provide include: • Full Agile Teams • Delivery Managers • Business Analysts • Technical Architects • Scrum Masters • User Experience Designers • Visual Designer • User Researchers • Developers / Developers in Test • Testers Specialties: IT Consultancy, Software Support, Software Development, Website Design, Agile Delivery, Continuous Delivery
