SmartRecruiters Functional Lead / Functional Consultant

Job description

SAP SmartRecruiters Functional Lead / Functional Consultant

Contract: 6 months

Location: Remote (UK-based ONLY)

Start: ASAP

Rate: £Competitive Market Rates

Clearance: SC Cleared (or willing to undergo)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced SAP SmartRecruiters Functional Lead / Functional Consultant to provide functional and product expertise across a recruitment platform within a Central Government environment.

You will work with Resourcing, Digital and third-party suppliers to translate business requirements into effective SmartRecruiters solutions, improve recruitment processes, and support integration with SAP Employee Central.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the functional SME and lead for SmartRecruiters.
• Gather requirements and lead workshops with HR and recruitment stakeholders.
• Design and improve end-to-end recruitment processes, including automation and optimisation.
• Configure SmartRecruiters across requisitions, job advertising, candidate management, workflows, approvals, interviews, offers, reporting and AI functionality.
• Support integration with SAP Employee Central and third-party solutions, including candidate redaction/blind-sifting.
• Develop functional specifications, process maps and configuration documentation.
• Support recruitment reporting, dashboards, data quality and KPI development.
• Develop training materials and support user adoption.
• Ensure solutions meet relevant recruitment policies, legislation, GDPR, security and governance requirements.
• Work with and manage third-party suppliers where required.

Essential Experience

• Significant hands-on SmartRecruiters functional, product or business systems experience.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment and Talent Acquisition processes.
• Experience configuring SmartRecruiters workflows and business processes.
• Strong requirements gathering, analysis and functional documentation skills.
• Experience leading workshops with senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers.
• Understanding of recruitment data, reporting and KPIs.
• Active SC clearance (or eligibility to undergo SC Clearance)

Desirable

• SmartRecruiters implementation or major transformation experience.
• Experience integrating SmartRecruiters with HR/ERP or identity-management platforms.
• SAP SuccessFactors / Employee Central experience.
• Central Government or Civil Service recruitment experience.
• Agile delivery experience.
• SmartRecruiters certification or equivalent experience.

For more information or immediate consideration for this opportunity, please contact Charlie Grant at CPS Group UK on 02920 37 55 99 or email cgrant@cpsgroupuk.com

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

United Kingdom

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

02-09-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English