The Manchester Recruitment Leader Summit 2025 - The Final Cut

Gain exclusive access to industry data, insights, trends, and best practices to help you and your business save time, improve efficiency, increase profitability and keep you ahead of the game.

BRAND NEW FORMAT FOR OUR LAST EVER MANCHESTER SUMMIT.* IF YOU'VE ATTENDED THIS EVENT BEFORE AND THINK YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING HAPPEN - THINK AGAIN! WE'RE SHAKING THE WHOLE THING UP.

ONLY 30 EXCLUSIVE TICKETS AVAILABLE.

We expect to see out quickly, so book early to avoid disappointment.

An event by recruitment leaders, for recruitment leaders. Attend if you are a recruitment agency owner, MD, team leader, future leader, head of ops or marketing or a key decision-maker within a recruitment agency.

Content, connections, collaboration, conversations.

Full content details to follow...

This event will end with networking drinks and a special annoucement.

Tickets include lunch, refreshments, networking drinks.

"I've now attended two Summits and have to say they are the best recruitment events I've been to. Great speakers, loads of useful content, and professionally run." Kelly Potter, Partnerships Director, Daniel James

"Hands down the most informative recruitment leader event in Manchester for years!" - Janine Owen, Co-founder, Talent Crowd

*Don't worry, we'll return in 2026 but in a whole new way! :)

Maria Vavoulas, Fractional COO, Workshop Facilitator, Event MC

Maria is a specialist in helping recruitment businesses scale efficiently through structured facilitation, operational best practices, and strategic execution. With a track record of optimising processes, implementing high-performance systems, and enabling businesses to make it happen, Maria will guide you through a practical, no-nonsense session to help you improve your next project rollout.

Talk Title - Map Your Stack - What’s Really Powering Your Recruitment Business?

Summary

Whatever the size of your recruitment business, before you invest in new tools or explore the latest trends, it’s worth taking a step back and understanding what’s already powering your business.

This session is designed to help you take a fresh look at your current tech setup - across every function of your recruitment business. From BD and candidate engagement to operations and finance, we’ll explore what tools are in use, where there may be overlap, and what might be missing.

This isn’t just about tech - it’s about clarity, value, and making more informed decisions about how you scale.

5 Key Takeaways

1. A clearer view of your tech stack
2. Spot gaps and duplications
3. Peer-to-peer insights
4. Operational reflection
5. Inspiration for smarter investment

Darren Curtis, CRO, Co-founder, SourceFlow

With more than two decades of experience spanning recruitment, SaaS sales, and digital transformation, Darren has a proven track record of scaling high-growth businesses. Prior to SourceFlow, he led Volcanic’s commercial function, growing ARR by 1150% to £5m and playing a key role in its acquisition by The Access Group. Darren is passionate about empowering recruitment marketing to become a strategic revenue driver, combining data insight with cutting-edge tech to deliver real outcomes.

Title Title: Why Recruitment Sales Teams Should Function Like SaaS Vendors

In this inspiring session, Darren will explore the SaaS sales techniques that recruitment consultants should adopt. He’ll unpack key factors such as:

• The difference in sales methodologies: transactional vs. consultative selling
• Why SaaS vendors focus on long-term recurring revenue and customer success - and how that mindset can benefit recruiters
• The role of data, tech stacks, and enablement in scaling sales performance
• Lessons from building high-performing SaaS sales that recruitment leaders can adopt
• How aligning marketing and sales can unlock faster growth

Expect practical takeaways on transforming recruitment sales teams into scalable, predictable revenue engines—without losing what makes them uniquely human.

Andrea Ellard, Partner, NorthStar People

Andrea is an experienced commercially focused recruitment professional, with expertise in performance coaching, training, content creation and mentoring. With a background in L&D, consultant success management, team leadership and recruitment consulting, Andrea relates to the challenges and opportunities within recruitment and is well positioned to support recruitment business grow market share, meet objectives, and thrive.

Talk Title: Clarity first, Strategy Second: Developing Your Business for Growth

In this high-impact session, you’ll step back from the day-to-day to define what success looks like for your business and start shaping a plan to make it happen.

With the support of experienced performance coaches, you’ll sharpen your business objectives and lay the groundwork for strategic action

Matthew Clark, Cyber Security Expert

Entrepreneurial, partnership-oriented, commercial insurance & risk management professional for sectors including recruitment, tech, AI, and FinTech.

Matthew helps businesses de-risk their investment, protecting the fruits of their labour with intelligent insurance and risk controls, ensuring owners and key stakeholders protect their assets.

Talk Title: How to Prevent Your Recruitment Business Being Held to Ransom

Recruitment businesses typically hold enormous quantities of data, making them prime targets from scammers, fraudsters, and cyber attacks. And with agencies of all sizes being targeted every day, it's essential you mitgate the risk against the real threat of ransomware and sophisticated fraud.

Using real anecdotes, this session will help you:

• Protect your assets
• Protect against liabilities
• Understand emerging risk, not just traditional risk
• Afford confidence to grow and expand
• SLEEP AT NIGHT!