Recruitment agency in Manchester
Our Manchester office sits in the Northern Quarter and looks after employers across the North of England. We recruit technology, product and leadership roles, and our engineering desk fills skilled roles for manufacturers in England as well as Scotland.
What we recruit for in Manchester
Manchester has one of the biggest technology and digital sectors in the UK outside London, and its employers compete hard for the same engineers, product people and leaders.
We recruit software engineers, cyber security and infrastructure specialists, data and AI engineers, and the product and engineering leaders who run those teams. Director and C-suite appointments are run as a retained search, with a mapped market, a referenced shortlist and a fixed date for first interviews.
Across the North and the rest of England
Our engineering desk is busiest in Scotland, but it also fills roles across England: mechanical fitters, electrical service engineers, account managers and product sales managers for engineering and manufacturing businesses. If you are hiring outside Greater Manchester, we will tell you honestly whether we already know that market or would be starting from scratch.
Working with us
Every brief starts with a conversation, not a form letter. We want to know why the role exists, what the person will actually do in their first six months, what the team is like, and what you can pay. That is what lets us tell a candidate the truth about the job.
You can work with us on a contingent basis and pay only when someone starts, run a retained search for a senior or confidential hire, or have one of our consultants embedded in your team when you are hiring at volume.
For candidates
Looking for your next move in Manchester or the North West? See the live roles below, or send us your CV and tell us what you want next. We will be straight with you about the roles we have, and we will not send your CV anywhere without asking you first.
Our Manchester office
First Achieve Ltd3 Back Turner StreetNorthern QuarterManchesterM4 1FR
0161 791 0678manchester@firstachieve.comLive roles in and around Manchester
All rolesSend us your CV and get a straight view of your market.
No portal, no fifteen-field form. One consultant reads it, and you get a call within two working days, including if there is nothing for you right now.
Upload your CVTell us the brief. We will tell you if it is hireable.
Contingent, retained or embedded. We will say before you commit whether the role can be filled at that number, in that location, on that timescale.
Submit a brief