Recruitment Consultant (Client)

Job Purpose

Under the supervision of the Recruitment Manager you will be a key part of a high-performing, agile 360⁰ Recruitment Team and deliver excellent recruitment services to:

• An established portfolio of FE clients
• A prospective portfolio of FE clients
• Workers seeking sessional or permanent work

Your particular focus will be on building and maintaining effective relationships with clients growing your portfolio of opportunity, identifying and qualifying the best roles across the sector. 

Relationships

You will take responsibility for creating and maintaining excellent relationships with:

• Your line manager and other company staff delivering support services
• Your Team members and colleagues
• Peer Recruitment Team members and colleagues

Responsibilities, outputs and outcomes

You will:

• Through the effective qualifying of roles across your portfolio and proactive business development you will support the team to achieve it’s annual Business Plan based on an established formula of team salary multiples. The Business Plan will evolve based on client demand and opportunity and you will manage your time to deliver the most cost efficient return on investment through successful and profitable recruitment.
• Maintain, monitor and report against a simple set of personal KPIs sufficient to plot where you are against objectives, targets and client satisfaction.
• Be an active and successful high performing Recruitment Consultant with a reputation for finding the very best roles that meet the criteria of qualified, valuable and fillable. Respond positively to every request for a role fully understanding the rationale and specifications.  Conduct a search for appropriately qualified candidates in isolation or through liaison with other Recruitment Consultants (Candidate Facing) to find the very best candidate that matches the client’s requirements.
• Communicate clearly with clients to ensure that each role is effectively qualified ensuring the relevant details are captured on the system to support the recruitment process.  Understand the interview and selection process to better prepare potential candidates for each role.
• Present your candidate(s) in the most compelling way, skilfully articulating their core skills and competencies, demonstrating how these meet fully the Client-Candidate Brief. Have a relentless focus on improving your Conversion Rate towards 100%, ensuring that every candidate request is fully qualified and effectively and consistently worked, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Build and sustain a professional presence in the market through company marketing initiatives, social media and personal and team reputation for successful delivery, including headhunting and undertaking public domain due diligence on potential candidates. You will be competent in sending messages and bulk emails whilst maximising systems to conduct searches and advertise jobs using social media graphics.
• Act at all times with high levels of personal integrity and professional behaviour.  You will actively engage with training and development sessions and will support others in your team building a positive team culture.
• Use company data and the CRM carefully, responsibly and accurately in accordance with company policy. You will maintain, administrate and cleanse candidate aspects of the database.
• Mutually support team peers and colleagues from other teams. This will involve you developing a wider team-based skills set and multi-tasking to meet routine and unexpected peaks in workload and undertaking any tasks your line manager considers is reasonable to provide an exceptional service.

Person Specification

Essential:

• You are a natural team player cares about others and works to the highest personal standards.
• You are a skilled and experienced Consultant with high levels of IT skills.
• You are ambitious for yourself and target driven.
• You thrive in a feedback and learning culture willing to adapt and change when results need to improve. You commit to taking personal feedback in the positive manner and can accept rejection of a candidate solution. Rejection will motivate you towards continuous improvement.
• You will not send out work if it is below our ‘Best in Class’ standard.
• You celebrate all success, your teammates and your own.
• You work in an orderly way with attention to detail and a maintain records of key transactions.
• You are professional in appearance, punctual and committed.
• You will uphold the company’s values and standards.

Highly desirable: 

• Higher education
• Recruitment Qualification

If you do not currently meet the Highly Desirable criteria you will be willing to consider personal and professional development towards it, with a measure of company support.

The perks

We believe our employees should be rewarded for the hard work they do, which is why we offer quick and clear progression routes across the business for individuals that show the drive and ambition to do so. As well as promotions, we offer competitive salaries, an uncapped commission scheme and additional prizes and competitions.

The office is bright, vibrant and buzzing. Located in the lovely town of West Bridgford, you are only a short walk away from the River Trent, shops, cafes and restaurants where some of the team like to spend their lunch breaks. There are also excellent transport links into Nottingham City Centre.

Our Benefits

• Good basic salary + uncapped commission
• Your birthday off
• Pension
• Structured training and development
• Fridge Friday
• Vibrant and buzzing office and facilities
• State of the art software and systems
• Group outings, prizes & events – from celebration meals, sporting events to weekends away
• Excellent team culture

Does this sound like it could be the job for you?

Please send a copy of your CV to talent@protocol.co.uk or for a confidential discussion, please call Stefanie Evans, Recruitment Director  on 07954388772.