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Top 25 Brand strategist recruitment companies based in Manchester, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 220 brand strategist recruitment companies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,980 professional contacts across them, including 641 with verified work emails. Across the United Kingdom, London is the largest hub for this category (2,641 companies); Manchester follows with 220.
This list covers brand strategist recruitment companies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest brand strategist recruitment companies based in Manchester, United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Oscar is an award-winning, global recruitment consultancy that takes an ethical, sustainable and people-first approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eleven connects dynamic people and businesses where bold ideas will help shape the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Citypress is one of the UK’s leading communications agencies and we’re proud to represent some of the country’s biggest and best-loved brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Humankind Global Recruitment, a specialist recruitment consultancy connecting the global ambitions of our clients with the personal ambitions of exceptional individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Only is an award-winning brand strategy and design agency helping organisations to use design to innovate and grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Only standout ideas boost the fortunes of your brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We help brands win the fight for relevance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Forward Role we're award-winning, industry leading specialists in marketing, digital and technology recruitment, we work with many of the fastest growing brands in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ASP Group was established in 2006 with the objective of creating a specialist professional recruitment consultancy offering an unrivalled service across a range of industry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Incognito is an exciting new interior design and branding studio that is delivering high profile projects for global occupiers and funds on both a national and international scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Better Placed is undoubtedly one of the UK’s leading, Employee Owned Recruitment specialists!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With well over 100 years of combined experience in the market, we take the time to fully understand the people and businesses we work with.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ultimate is an award-winning creative design and digital agency that specialises in delivering human-first experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At White Label Recruitment, we are specialists in providing high-quality recruitment services within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Technical Sales, and Supply Chain sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help companies build teams with people you won’t find on the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clayton Legal are leading legal recruitment specialists, with a sole purpose to help all legal professionals and hiring managers and Partners source both life changing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nixor helps businesses secure the best Technology & Transformation Talent in less than 3 weeks for Permanent hires & 5 days for Interim / Contract.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tagged Resources is a fast growing independent Recruitment Agency with specialist skill sectors including Supply Chain, Merchandising, Buying, Design, Product Development…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our ethos is simply this- For our clients, we offer unparalleled access to top talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Candour - noun [U] UK (US Candor) The quality of being open and honest; frankness: a man of refreshing candour.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re a brand-first creative agency, built around one simple belief: we create brands that belong.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a strategy-first marketing agency for construction and industrial brands, delivering business growth through our philosophy of Grounded Truth™ Our services are designed to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IRG is an international executive search firm, specialising in both locating, and securing top level talent on a global basis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More than just an agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the leading Technology, Marketing, Digital, Creative and Analytics recruitment agency in Manchester serving the North West and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: brand strategist recruitment companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names brand strategist recruitment companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of brand strategist recruitment companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name brand strategist recruitment companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Brand strategist recruitment companies based in Manchester, United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United Kingdom list rather than for Manchester, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Manchester, over 220 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among brand strategist recruitment companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “brand strategist recruitment companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names brand strategist recruitment companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among brand strategist recruitment companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Manchester are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 641 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Brand strategist recruitment companies by metro in the United Kingdom
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in London2641
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Leeds127
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Bristol108
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Birmingham92
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Edinburgh53
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Glasgow51
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Liverpool44
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Brighton42
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Belfast35
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Nottingham35
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Milton Keynes34
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Reading27
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Cardiff26
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Leicester26
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Newcastle Upon Tyne26
- Brand strategist recruitment companies in Sheffield25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names brand strategist recruitment companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many brand strategist recruitment companies are there based in Manchester, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 220 brand strategist recruitment companies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
OSCAR, headquartered in Manchester, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United Kingdom has the most brand strategist recruitment companies?
London leads the United Kingdom with 2,641 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (220) and Leeds (127).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 641 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 220 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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