Internal Recruiter

One Year. One Big Opportunity. One Incredible Career Move.

Looking for a role where you can make real impact, build your profile, and fuel your career in recruitment?

Whether you're an experienced recruiter or a rising star ready to show the world what you're made of-this is your moment!

Internal Recruiter - 12 Months Maternity Cover
Location: Hybrid (Winnersh RG41 5TP + Remote) | Travel: 2-3 days/month
Salary: £23,000 to £28,000 per annum + Benefits + Huge Learning Potential

Join Advantage Smollan's powerhouse recruitment team on a 12-month maternity leave cover that’s anything but just a stopgap. You’ll be front and centre in sourcing and engaging top talent for some of the UK’s biggest and most exciting FMCG and field marketing clients-think high-volume, high-energy, and high-visibility.

This is your chance to own a portfolio, drive candidate experience, and bring talent into roles that shape the way brands show up in stores and streets across the UK.

What You’ll Do

• Take the reins on fast-paced, high-impact hiring projects across sales, field, and operational roles
• Find brilliant people and connect them to careers that build the future of UK retail and FMCG
• Create standout candidate experiences that are seamless, smart, and human
• Innovate processes, shape employer branding, and keep our ATS singing
• Partner with hiring managers, bring them insights, and deliver results that matter
• Travel to our HQ and key client sites around 2-3 times a month for relationship-building and strategy sessions

What You Bring

• A passion for people, pace, and possibility
• Experience in recruitment (agency, in-house, or RPO - we’re open) OR the tenacity and drive to step up and learn fast
• Great communication skills and a flair for engagement
• Strong organisational instincts with a creative streak for problem-solving
• A high-energy approach, with the confidence to hit the ground running
• A “let’s do this” attitude-you're not just covering a role, you're making it your own

Why This Role? Why Now?

• Step into impact - Own a live portfolio with room to shape, improve, and impress
• Grow your career - Learn fast, get noticed, and build a springboard to your next exciting move
• Big names, real work - Be part of projects that put you at the heart of UK consumer brand experiences
• Supportive culture - We work hard, laugh harder, and always have each other’s backs
• Hybrid with flexibility - Work from home with monthly in-person collaboration
• 24 days holiday increasing to 29 annually (+8 bank holidays)
• Benefits: Medicash, enhanced pension scheme, enhanced paternity leave, enhanced maternity leave, adoption leave, cycle to work scheme, EV buying scheme

This isn’t just a fixed-term contract. It’s a chance to make your mark, unlock your potential, and set your next career move on fire. Ready to grab it? Apply now and let’s build something brilliant-together!

Early applications are strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to pause or close this vacancy prior to the listed closing date.

Advantage Smollan is a global provider of outsourced sales and marketing solutions for the world’s most successful brand owners and retailers. Leveraging its global structure, the company consistently creates and delivers industry-leading commerce solutions, enabling its customers to sell and market more effectively.

Founded in 2015, Advantage Smollan is the result of a strategic international partnership between Advantage Solutions (based in the US and listed on Nasdaq) and Global Smollan Holdings (based in South Africa). It comprises a closely integrated network of market-leading portfolio companies based predominantly in the UK and Europe.

The staff at Advantage Smollan contribute to and benefit from a highly collegiate, supportive and diverse culture.  The company places people at the centre of everything it does, creating an extraordinary experience for its staff, customers and other business partners.

For more information on Advantage Smollan, please visit www.advantagesmollan.com. For more information on Advantage Solutions and Smollan, please visit www.advantagesolutions.net and www.smollan.com, respectively.

We are committed to ensuring we have an open, safe and accepting workplace that enables all our colleagues to be themselves and thrive at work. Whilst we wouldn’t claim to be perfect, we are constantly improving how we support and promote diversity within our business and our communities.

So If you want to join a company that will accept you for being you, then look no further and apply today.