Recruitment Manager

Yard Sale Pizza

Yard Sale Pizza is a growing and successful independent hospitality business currently with 16 locations based across London and plenty more on the way! We’re now looking for a Recruitment Manager to join our People Team!

This role is all about driving a brilliant recruitment experience from start to finish, especially as we grow, so we’re looking for someone who is proactive, people-focused and takes real pride in the quality of their work. You’ll be a supportive presence for our shops and wider team, showing up both in person and virtually and you’ll play a huge part in creating an amazing hiring journey for every single candidate!

We’re looking for someone who brings great energy, puts in the hard work and never cuts corners on quality. Someone who builds relationships with ease, communicates with confidence, keeps standards sky-high and helps us find the kind of people who make Yard Sale Pizza what it is and who will help shape our newest shops from day one!

What will I be doing?

• Supporting the full recruitment cycle across all shop and management roles with a particular focus on staffing new site openings and ensuring each new shop launches with a brilliant team in place!
• Building strong talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, headhunting, outreach and networking.
• Conducting thorough screening of candidates, including telephone, virtual and face-to-face interviews, to ensure only the best progress through the process!
• Assisting shop managers with interviewing, shortlisting and selecting the best candidates.
• Liaising with managers to schedule interviews and ensure smooth coordination across teams.
• Conducting right-to-work and other pre-employment checks to ensure compliance.
• Supporting onboarding to help new hires settle in quickly and confidently, especially crucial during new shop launches!
• Keeping recruitment data tidy and up to date and assisting with hiring reports.
• Ensuring every candidate receives the best possible hiring experience, so good that they’ll want to refer all their friends!
• Checking in regularly with shop teams to understand their staffing needs and challenges and staying ahead of resourcing demands as we prepare for new openings.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has previous experience as a Recruitment Manager, ideally in hospitality!
• Is a great communicator whether on the phone, over email or face-to-face.
• Is organised, dependable and great at juggling multiple pipelines at once, especially when working at pace during new shop opening periods.
• Works well at pace but never lets quality drop.
• Is passionate about culture-first hiring and choosing people who make teams stronger.
• Has experience with recruitment platforms, scheduling tools and ATS systems (bonus points if you’ve used Harri!)
• Works brilliantly with others, someone who shops genuinely enjoy collaborating with.
• Brings a great vibe to the team! Someone who is approachable, supportive and positive!

This is a hybrid role, a mixture of working from home as well as attending meetings which may take place in the London-based shops, we expect regular presence in the shops to get to know our people and live the YSP values! We’re offering a competitive salary based on a 45-hour contract with 28 days holiday and Christmas closure!

Benefits include cycle to work scheme, tech scheme, company pension, access to our Wellbeing Hub through Hospitality Action. Free pizza across all of our locations during your working hours and brilliant discounts for family and friends in all restaurants and online merchandise.

If you want to help build brilliant teams and be part of our fast growing, pizza-loving company then we can’t wait to hear from you!

How to apply:

Send your CV and a cover letter telling us why you’d be the perfect fit to lucy@yardsalepizza.com