Recruitment Manager

Salary: £60,000 per year

The recruitment business has just celebrated its first year and they couldn’t be happier with the reception from their clients and the wider business community. They have successfully placed several board-level appointments in HR as well as Charity CEOs, Legal positions and a whole lot more! The team now needs direction and development from an experienced recruitment manager to drive the business forward. For the right candidate, this is an excellent opportunity to be a part of a successful and innovative recruitment business with a great working environment.

Job Overview

The self-starting Recruitment Manager will take overall responsibility for the daily performance of the recruitment business unit. This leadership role will be pivotal in establishing, growing, and developing a high-performance team, and ensuring client and candidate experience is exceptional. You will take ownership of a revenue and activity target, that will drive our performance.

What will you be doing?

Strategic

• Work with the leadership team to define the quarterly and annual business strategy and business plans
• Keep up to date with and implement compliance and operational processes to ensure the smooth running of the business
• Agree with the leadership team and subsequently take ownership of the revenue and KPI targets for the business unit and cascade these across the team to ensure targets are being achieved
• Create accurate pipeline forecasting and MI for the leadership team

Business Development

• Attend networking and other relevant events to raise the profile of the brand
• Work with the internal business development team to establish targets and cross-sell opportunities to maximise revenue opportunities for the group
• Take part in and ensure business development activity is high quality and regular, to secure new customers and establish ways to grow existing customers through cross-sell opportunities
• Establish innovative ways to build the brand and suggest ways to improve the service we offer to the market.

Leadership

• Act as a role model for the recruitment team and take responsibility for day-to-day line management, training and coaching of your team
• Drive a high-performing team whilst also taking accountability for your own revenue numbers

What does our ideal person look like?

They are looking for an individual that thrives on autonomy as you build a relatively new service offering and brand. Resilience, dedication and professionalism will be key, as you will be the expert to their customers and your team. You will have the ability to shape the ways of working, build your culture and have the added benefit of working with an established client base from their existing firm.

They are also looking for someone who has:

• Min of 3 years’ recruitment experience ideally with experience at manager level
• Proven track record of business development and exceeding revenue targets
• Permanent & Temporary recruitment knowledge
• Experience of working in white collar/professional services recruitment
• Understanding of retained recruitment billing model as well as contingency
• Proven experience of coaching and leading teams

What’s in it for you?

An exciting and rare opportunity to build a brand with the support and resources needed to set you up for success, whilst having a high degree of autonomy.

A long-term appointment which you can make your own and work towards share options and business ownership.

A competitive salary plus performance-related bonus (team and individual).

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.

Benefits include Westfield health cover, regularly paid for social activities, salary sacrifice cycle to work and tech purchase scheme and wellbeing initiatives.

The best reason to join them is that you will become part of a trusted brand, offering you a progressive, innovative, and supportive work life.

Salary up to £60,000basic per year plus bonus and commission

Will consider part time