Head of Permanent Recruitment

Company: Great Jobs UK
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

This role is for a Head of Permanent Recruitment to join an expanding team in London. This is a leadership position with responsibility for growing permanent recruitment across regions and driving business development.

Base pay range

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The Role

The role – Team manager (Perm)

This is a high growth role with lots of potential for career progression and to take wider responsibility within the business in the future. You will be responsible for building and leading a team of internationally focused experienced consultants, as well as leveraging existing client relationships to expand our service offerings. This is a leadership role with billing and account management responsibility. You will also have influence over the strategy and commercial direction of your team within the business.

Key responsibilities

  • Growing the footprint of Permanent recruitment globally
  • Ensuring a constant flow of new jobs into the team
  • Developing a strong personal brand amongst candidates and clients within their niche
  • Inheriting a warm desk and maximizing relationships
  • Managing and overseeing the full cycle 360 recruitment process: role briefing, search and selection, interview coaching, closing, follow up
  • Continued development of major client accounts and turning warm prospects into active companies and candidates
  • Setting the standard and leading by example across all areas of the recruitment lifecycle
  • Delivering an excellent candidate and company experience at all times
  • Working closely with the marketing team to develop strategies for candidate and client acquisition

Leadership

  • Designing the hiring strategy, targets and metrics to ensure team success
  • Leading, training and managing a small team of consultants, with responsibility to grow and develop
  • Sales accountability for the team, measuring performance and productivity, leading by example
  • Hiring, developing, attracting and retaining talent
  • Implementing state-of-the-art best practices across the team
  • Upholding the company’s values and high quality service level
  • Ad-hoc duties as required by the CEO

What they are looking for

  • Demonstrated experience of working in a candidate-short permanent market in medical device or life sciences (Europe or international is ideal)
  • Recruitment agency experience
  • Proven experience of managing and developing at least 2 recruitment consultants
  • Proven track record of opening up and developing accounts

Additional information

For more information contact Nick on nick@greatjobsuk.com

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Posted: May 27th, 2026