Fieldwork Operations Manager - £36-38k - Leeds (mainly office-based)

Salary: £36-38k
Location: Leeds area (mainly in-office, occasional remote)

Are you an experienced Fieldwork Executive or Project Manager who has mentored or managed more junior members, looking for your next step?

Our growing client is looking for a Fieldwork Operations Manager to oversee the smooth day-to-day delivery of fieldwork operations, facility activity, and cross-team coordination. You’ll play a key role in embedding best practice, ensuring continuity across projects, and keeping everything running efficiently from planning to wrap-up. This is a chance to step further into leadership, shape operational standards, and grow within a supportive, collaborative team.

Key responsibilities
• Manage capacity across the fieldwork team, delegating work and supporting Execs and Senior Execs
• Line manage junior colleagues, providing regular feedback, coaching, and clear development pathways
• Lead fieldwork onsite and offsite, maintaining high standards across hosting, preparation, logistics, and participant experience (some evenings required)
• Oversee facility and equipment processes, from booking systems to upkeep and maintenance, driving efficiency and resolving issues
• Manage casual staff recruitment, onboarding, training, and payment, ensuring consistent quality and best practice
• Monitor attendance, quotas, incentives, and KPIs, reporting trends and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Act as a role model across teams, supporting collaboration and promoting strong operational practice
• Support commercial activity by creating quotes, managing facility bookings, and contributing to promotional efforts where needed

About You
• Experience in fieldwork or research operations, with strong project management and coordination skills
• Organised, adaptable, and confident leading multiple projects and supporting others
• Previous people-management experience, or ready to step into a leadership role
• Positive, proactive, and solutions-focused
• Based near Leeds with a full UK driving licence and access to a car
• Some evening fieldwork is required. Time off in lieu will be provided.

This is a varied, operationally focused role with real scope to influence how things run. If you enjoy making complex projects run seamlessly and enabling others to succeed, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply please send your CV to maarit@hanneliusrecruitment.com

Driving: A full UK driving licence and access to a car are essential for this role. The successful candidate will travel between the client's two office locations during the working day, as well as travelling to fieldwork locations across the region. Public transport is not a practical option for the required travel between locations.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

Inclusive recruitment

Hannelius Recruitment is committed to fair, inclusive and accessible recruitment. We assess candidates against the requirements and agreed selection criteria for each role and apply these criteria consistently throughout the recruitment process.

We do not make assumptions about a candidate’s suitability based on disability or other protected characteristics. Candidates are assessed on their skills, experience, capabilities and suitability against the requirements of the role.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please let your Hannelius Recruitment consultant know. We will work with you and our client to make appropriate arrangements and ensure that requesting an adjustment does not disadvantage you in the recruitment process.

Where we identify a client requirement that may unnecessarily restrict access to a role, we will discuss this with the client where appropriate.