Skills Alliance is a high-growth, global Recruitment and Executive Search firm specialising in Life Sciences, Industrials and wider STEM.
Graduate / Trainee Recruitment Consultant
Start date: Summer 2026
Location: Leeds
What does this role involve?
* Discover and headhunt high‑calibre candidates for mid‑senior level and retained roles.
* Business Development and forging relationships with clients across your market globally. This is a client facing role with a lot of autonomy. You'll not only be responsible for bringing in and attracting clients, but managing accounts once they are onboarded.
* Manage the whole candidate journey. That's everything from screening and interviewing candidates, to interview feedback, to negotiating offers and delivering the news.
* Become the go‑to expert in your market. We work in one of the most exciting markets globally, and you'll become an expert in your area pretty quickly!
What can we offer you?
* Earning potential. Recruitment is one of the few careers where you can make a lot of money early in your career. Our commission structure goes up to 50% with no threshold.
* Benefits. Flexi‑hours, wellness days, wellness budget monthly, private healthcare, charity days, time off on your birthday - and more.
* Incentives and perks. Lunch & breakfast clubs every quarter, fully paid annual incentive trips every year, dress down Fridays with early finish, regular socials.
* Development. From day one, you’ll be learning from the very best. Structured training, real‑time feedback, and constant development from people who’ve done it and done it well.
* Progression. We aim to get anyone joining us promoted twice in their first year.
Who are we looking for?
* Experience within a sales, retail, sports or hospitality environment is desirable.
* Rewards are high here, so it's a plus if you are motivated by performance based rewards on top of your basic salary.
* Competitive, resilient, and ambitious approach to your work.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, you will be talking to people all around the world all day!
* Excited to learn, improve and be trained. You want to get 1% better each day.
* You enjoy a fast‑paced, high‑impact environment surrounded by high performers and want to get stuck into building a long term career from day one.
This role will initially be on site while you're learning (usually your first few months), then will be on our hybrid structure which is 3 days in the office, 2 working from home.
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