Learning & Development Manager / Future Head of People

Learning & Development Manager (Future Head of People)

Location: Maidstone Head Office (with travel to other offices as required)

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 + Six-Monthly Performance Bonus

🚀 Help Shape the Future of a Growing Recruitment Business

Are you an experienced Learning & Development professional with a background in recruitment who wants to make a genuine impact on a growing business?

CPR Recruitment is one of the UK's leading construction recruitment businesses, operating from multiple locations nationwide with annual revenues of £35m+.

As we continue our ambitious growth plans to reach £75m turnover over the next five years, we're making a significant investment in our people function and are looking to appoint a Learning & Development Manager who can help drive performance, develop future leaders and ultimately progress into a Head of People role.

This is a rare opportunity to join a successful, profitable business at an exciting stage of its growth journey and play a key role in shaping its future.

📈 Why This Role?

At CPR Recruitment, we've always believed our success comes from our people.

Over the years we've invested heavily in training, management development, technology, infrastructure and career progression opportunities. As we continue to grow, we want to further strengthen our people development strategy and ensure every employee has the support, training and opportunity to reach their full potential.

We're not hiring this role because we have a problem to solve.

We're hiring because we believe the next phase of growth requires an even greater investment in our people.

💼 Your Role

You'll be responsible for developing and delivering our learning and development strategy across the business, helping recruiters, managers and future leaders maximise their performance.

Responsibilities will include:

• Designing and delivering structured recruitment training programmes

• Managing onboarding and induction processes for new hires

• Coaching consultants from trainee level through to experienced recruiters

• Delivering management and leadership development programmes

• Working closely with Directors and Managers to identify development needs

• Creating learning pathways, competency frameworks and training materials

• Monitoring training effectiveness and reporting on performance improvements

• Supporting employee engagement, retention and career development initiatives

• Helping shape the future People strategy of the business

🎯 What We're Looking For

Essential

• 2-3 years' experience working on a recruitment desk

• 1-3 years' experience in a Learning & Development or Training role within recruitment

• Strong coaching, mentoring and presentation skills

• Commercial understanding of recruitment KPIs and performance

• Passion for developing people and improving performance

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred

• ILM Level 3 qualification (or above)

• CIPD qualification

• Experience creating structured learning programmes

• Experience developing managers and future leaders

💰 What We Offer

• £50,000 - £60,000 basic salary

• Six-monthly performance bonus

• Private medical & dental insurance

• Discounted gym memberships

• Early finish every Friday

• Perkbox discounts

• Flexible working options

• High-energy, ambitious culture

• Significant investment in your personal development

📈 Career Progression

This role has a clear pathway to become our future Head of People.

As CPR Recruitment continues to grow, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to take ownership of the wider people strategy, helping shape recruitment, retention, development, leadership and culture across the business.

🏆 Why Join CPR Recruitment?

• £35m+ turnover business with ambitious growth plans

• Targeting £75m turnover over the next five years

• Multi-office recruitment business with a strong market reputation

• Direct access to senior leadership and business strategy

• Opportunity to build something meaningful and leave a lasting impact

If you're passionate about developing people and want to play a key role in the next chapter of CPR Recruitment's growth story, we'd love to hear from you.

👉 Apply now with your CV
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed