Permanent
West End
Up to 45K depending on experience
5-VWAPC/NCWSD
Starting Jan 2026
VWA is hiring! We are looking for an ambitious, hardworking, highly communicative and team-playing individual to join our Permanent Division as Recruitment Consultant. With responsibility for building and maintaining your own client-base, the role offers an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their existing account management and business development skills in a commercial and people-focused environment.
About Us
VWA is a boutique recruitment consultancy and has been established for 35 years – there is a true family feel in our culture and approach. We partner with a number of London and internationally based firms to support with a range of hiring needs, including:
- Business support and administrative roles
- Private PAs
- Operations
- Marketing
- HR
- Finance, investments and accountancy
About the Recruitment Consultant Role
As a Consultant based on the Permanent team, your role will focus on both business development/client relationship management and completing end-to-end recruitment processes. You will also be required to perform broader tasks and develop skills which enable the entirety of VWA to flourish in a collaborative, professional and commercial way. These will include:
- Sourcing candidates through responding to applications and active searching on recruitment job boards.
- Taking briefings on permanent, fixed-term contract and temporary-to-permanent roles from clients.
- Filling roles in a timely manner.
- Conducting competency-based interviews with candidates invited to register, and candidate relationship management throughout registration process.
- Shortlisting candidates for clients’ briefs and managing each step of the recruitment process including collating interview feedback from candidates and negotiating offers.
- Relationship management with clients and candidates with a long-term approach based on honesty, trust, respect and consistent engagement.
- Identify and pitch for new business at target clients.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues on shared roles.
- Market research and analysis as required.
- Administrative support including sending our compliance documents.
- Other tasks as required.
About You
- Prior experience in a recruitment would be ideal, however other account management, sales and business development-based backgrounds (with proven success) will be considered.
- Strong attention to detail.
- An efficient approach to work and with a warm and approachable manner.
- Natural rapport-builder, and have a team-working and commercial mindset.
- Experience with LinkedIn, Reed and Access CRM are desirable but not essential.
- Core hours are 9am – 5.30pm, with flexibility to work beyond these hours if required.
- The company operates a hybrid working structure (3 days office-based) however the successful candidate will be fully office-based while onboarding into the role.
- Competitive base salary up to 45K depending on relevant experience and eventual participation in commission scheme and discretionary bonus.
If you’re looking to build a successful career in recruitment in a fun, supportive and team-spirited environment, we would love to hear from you!
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