Attraction Lead

Are you passionate about early careers and creating outstanding candidate experiences? Are you looking for a role where you can take ownership, shape strategy and build something as a business grows?

We're looking for an Attraction Lead to join The Ladder Group's Campaigns team and lead our growing attraction offering.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience in graduate recruitment, early careers or talent acquisition who's ready to step beyond delivering attraction activity and into a role where they'll shape strategy, influence clients and build one of the most exciting attraction functions in the market.

The Ladder Group

At The Ladder Group, we believe in creating incredible careers for everyone. We are a business with a clear purpose: helping organisations build exceptional talent pipelines while creating greater access to opportunities for young people.

Since launching in 2021, we've grown rapidly, working with organisations across early careers, community impact and social mobility, while expanding our reach and impact across the UK and internationally.

The Campaigns Team

Our Campaigns team delivers recruitment campaigns, attraction strategies and employer engagement projects for organisations looking to build exceptional early careers programmes.

Working across graduate, internship and apprenticeship hiring, the team partners with clients to design attraction strategies, deliver recruitment campaigns and create outstanding candidate experiences that lead to successful hiring outcomes.

As our attraction offering continues to grow, this role will play a central part in shaping its future. You'll help develop our services, introduce new ideas, improve how we deliver projects and influence the future direction of one of our fastest-growing areas.

The Role

As our Attraction Lead, you'll lead the design and delivery of attraction strategies that help clients engage and hire exceptional early careers talent.

Working directly with clients, you'll design bespoke attraction campaigns, campus engagement strategies, employer branding initiatives and events that build high-quality candidate pipelines.

Alongside leading attraction projects, you'll continue to support wider recruitment campaigns, ensuring attraction activity translates into successful hiring outcomes.

You'll also play an important leadership role within the Campaigns team, helping develop colleagues, improve our delivery model and shape the future growth of the function.

Day-to-day, you'll:

• Design and deliver attraction strategies for leading employers
• Lead careers fairs, insight days, campus activity, networking events and employer branding campaigns
• Partner with clients to understand hiring goals and develop bespoke attraction plans
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders
• Manage attraction campaigns from planning through to delivery and reporting
• Analyse campaign performance and provide strategic recommendations using engagement and conversion data
• Develop scalable attraction processes using CRM and ATS platforms
• Produce post-event reporting and insights that improve future campaigns
• Manage and develop junior team members across attraction and recruitment projects
• Contribute to the wider leadership, growth and development of the Campaigns team

Beyond project delivery, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our attraction offering, influence how we work with clients, introduce new ideas and play a key role in scaling this area of the business.

We're looking for someone who's commercially minded, highly organised and enjoys combining creativity with strategic thinking. Someone who's excited by ownership, thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to help build something.

If you're looking for a role where you'll have genuine influence, work with fantastic clients and colleagues, and accelerate your career alongside a rapidly growing business, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation & Benefits

• £45-50K salary depending on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with office closure over Christmas
• Work from home Wednesdays
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible benefits package including Vitality healthcare
• Brand new Old Street office, complete with a roof terrace!