Overview
Skills Alliance is a high-growth, global Recruitment and Executive Search firm specialising in Life Sciences, Industrials and the wider STEM sectors.
The role: After an exceptional performance across all our global offices this year, we are now looking to expand our office in Leeds this summer. Our Leeds office is one of our highest performing and we have worked hard to hire a fantastic leadership team into this office, and we now want to grow further.
To date we count many of the leading Animal Nutrition, Food ingredients, Chemicals and Agro Chemicals companies as our partners, and are now looking for Graduates or Trainees who want to work directly with clients like this.
Graduate Recruitment Consultant
Start date: July 2026
Responsibilities
- 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 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 in your first 2 weeks by the L&D team, 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.
If you’re the kind of person who wants to build a career with real progression, and cares about working in a supportive, social environment, apply here or email bec.barnes@skillsalliance.com.
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