This nationwide training, qualifications and recruitment organisation is 350 people strong and has been running for 15 years. The organisation is entrepreneurial, passionate, commercial, and at the same time, they have a strong sense of social and environmental responsibility.
The recruitment arm of the business is growing, and they are seeking someone to lead the way in hiring HR professionals in the UK.
Work pattern
2 days in office (Wednesday and Thursday), 3 remote
The Role
* 360 Recruitment Consultant hiring HR professionals across the spectrum of an HR function, including comps and benefits, learning and development, talent acquisition, HR information systems, HR business partnering, HR operations, HR Directors, Change management and more.
* The company already runs adult education training in the HR space, providing HR qualification services and training for junior people wanting to enter HR roles.
* The recruitment team has already hired IT professionals into many organisations across London and the Home Counties.
* There are over 400 clients who have signed terms with the business that you can call and introduce this new service line to.
* You will use contacts internally on the candidate and client side to develop a complementary business line hiring experienced HR professionals into existing and new clients.
* You will be focusing on the perm market in the UK.
* You will be carrying out business development activities to pick up new clients for the recruitment business and will be cross trained to sell other service lines to clients who may be more interested in other services, you will then stay in touch with these clients as an account manager and you will transition them to hiring HR professionals via yourself once you have earnt their trust over time.
* You will conduct business development through cold calling and other channels.
The Selling Points
This is an exciting role that won't just take any recruiter to achieve the full potential. You will be working with the existing IT recruitment business as well as the training and qualification teams and bootcamp teams to ensure that you are maximising the large-scale opportunity that this has the potential to be
* You will see this as a chance to break out of the mould of a standard recruitment model and project manage and take charge of a new business area in this exciting market
* You will have the backing of a large business behind you, one that has a strong HR reputation, a company that is viewed by the HR community already as being trustworthy and well-reputed, you will not be seen as any other recruitment company when carrying out your BD.
* You will receive a commission for any boot camp hires you help with, as well as for standard 360 hiring.
* You will be earning up to £36k as a basic salary and a strong commission package.
Ideally, you will be motivated to build this into a division and have a team reporting to you in the longer term, and you will attack the role as such, with passion and clear drive.
The Requirements
* You will have at least 2 years of permanent recruitment experience in a 360-degree position.
* You will have a strong track record for billings and the acquisition of new clients.
* Ideally, you will have a good tie to hiring in the HR space, perhaps you have hired HR professionals before, you have sold to HR professionals before, or you used to be in HR yourself/ have a CIPD or HR degree. You will not be considered for this role without a strong and obvious connection to the industry as you will be the first person hired into this exciting new market.
* You will have a strong desire to work for a large company, with good processes, structured ways of working, internal policies and procedures, a strong code of ethics and social responsibility.
Important things to note
It is important that you can pass a safer recruitment process. This will involve pre-employment checks, references, a CRB and DBS check. This is an Offstead-regulated organisation.