Staffing Manager

Staffing Manager

Location:

No Fixed Place, Ireland. Salary: €52,500 per annum.Contract: Full-time, 12-month Fixed Term Contract. Monday - Friday (with flexibility to attend events)

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced and proactive Staffing Manager to lead the attraction, recruitment, onboarding and deployment of high-volume workforces across multiple operational environments.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing strategic workforce planning with hands-on recruitment delivery. You'll be responsible for ensuring staffing requirements are met, compliance standards are maintained and workforce plans are delivered efficiently to support business growth and operational excellence.

Working closely with operational leaders, HR teams and external partners, you'll play a key role in building engaged, high-performing teams that deliver exceptional service.

What You'll Be Doing

Recruitment & Workforce Planning

• Lead end-to-end recruitment campaigns across operational, management and specialist roles.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines to meet the business needs.
• Develop attraction strategies using job boards, social media, networking and community partnerships.
• Forecast staffing requirements and support workforce planning activities.
• Manage agency relationships and recruitment suppliers.

Onboarding & Compliance

• Ensure all recruitment activity complies with employment legislation and company policy.
• Oversee Right to Work documentation, references and pre-employment screening.
• Maintain accurate employee records and workforce data.
• Support audit and compliance requirements across the recruitment lifecycle.

Training & Employee Experience

• Coordinate onboarding and induction programmes.
• Support completion of mandatory training requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to identify workforce development needs.
• Champion a positive candidate and employee experience.

Operational Support

• Collaborate with business leaders to deliver workforce plans effectively.
• Monitor staffing levels and proactively address resourcing challenges.
• Support mobilisation activities of the event contract.
• Provide recruitment insight, reporting and recommendations to stakeholders.

Financial Management

• Manage labour forecasting and workforce budgeting activities.
• Monitor recruitment spends and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Produce regular staffing reports and onboarding metrics.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Previous experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, staffing or workforce planning.
• Strong understanding of Irish employment legislation.
• Experience managing high-volume recruitment campaigns.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and recruitment systems.

Desirable

• Experience within hospitality, events or other large-scale operational environments.
• Experience working with large temporary or casual workforces.
• Knowledge of workforce planning and labour forecasting.
• Experience supporting mobilisation or change projects.

What You'll Bring

• A proactive, solutions-focused approach.
• Strong commercial awareness.
• High attention to detail and commitment to compliance.
• The ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• A passion for delivering exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it's a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong

in a company and team that values you for you.

Act

with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive

in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We're a Disability Confident Leader employer. We're committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications

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