Business Manager

Why This Role?
This is a rare opportunity for an accomplished recruiter ready to step into a senior leadership role within a specialist healthcare recruitment business. As Business Manager, you’ll combine hands-on billing with responsibility for building, leading, developing, and supporting a highly effective recruitment team.

Based between home and our York office, this role offers significant autonomy, genuine influence, and the chance to shape strategy, growth, and culture within a respected and values-led recruitment business. You will work closely with the Managing Director, contributing directly to commercial decision-making, strategic planning, and the continued development of the business. This role also offers a rare opportunity to progress into a Director-level position, taking ownership of a specialist division and replicating the success achieved through the development of established brands such as Fertility Talent. Relocation support is available for the right individual.

What’s In It for You?
• Competitive basic salary of up to £65,000 DOE.
• Leadership-level commission and bonus structure.
• Opportunity to influence business strategy, growth, and service delivery.
• High levels of repeat business with established, warm client relationships.
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangement.
• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days + sabbatical.
• 12% pension contribution.
• Company mobile + full home and office set-up with outstanding technology.
• Dental plan, life assurance, and financial wellbeing planning.
• Exceptional family-friendly benefits, inclusive policies, and talking therapy support.
• Realistic, commercially aligned targets and regular team events.
• Relocation support available.

About Stroud Resourcing
Stroud Resourcing is a specialist healthcare headhunting firm based in York, partnering with some of the UK’s most prestigious hospitals and healthcare providers. Our reputation is built on long-term relationships, integrity, and exceptional candidate and client care.

Our ‘people-first’ culture prioritises trust, flexibility, and performance, empowering leaders to think commercially, act strategically, and build teams that operate effectively and deliver outstanding results.

What You’ll Be Doing
• Building, leading, developing, and supporting a highly effective recruitment team.
• Taking ownership of market mapping and strategic planning to identify new revenue streams, client opportunities, and areas for growth.
• Driving business development and client account management at a senior level, nurturing long-term, high-value partnerships.
• Joining commercial dots across markets, clients, and candidate trends to proactively identify and capitalise on new opportunities.
• Maintaining a hands-on recruitment presence, delivering high-quality, consultative recruitment solutions.
• Playing a key role in shaping recruitment strategy, processes, and best practice across the business.

What We’re Looking For
• Proven experience in healthcare recruitment is highly desirable. Applications will also be considered from senior recruitment leaders within highly regulated sectors, such as scientific or MedTech.
• Demonstrable leadership experience, with a track record of managing, coaching, or mentoring recruiters.
• Strong background in market mapping, business development, and senior-level client account management.
• Commercially astute, with the ability to think strategically and identify new opportunities.
• Confident joining commercial dots and translating insight into action.
• Professional, transparent, and people-focused leadership style.
• Drive, resilience, emotional intelligence, and a sense of humour are highly valued.

Location Requirement
While hybrid working is supported, this is a visible leadership role that requires regular time in the office to support and develop the team.

To help maintain our collaborative culture, applicants should live within 45 minutes of York or be open to relocation. Relocation support is available.

Inclusion & Diversity
We are committed to creating a workplace that values diversity and promotes inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities.

Apply today for this Business Manager role in York or contact Joanna Stroud for a confidential discussion, quoting reference 4354. We’d love to hear from you.