Recruitment Consultant (Sales-Focused / Business Development)

Role Overview

We areseekinga highly driven, sales-focused Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team, with a strong emphasis on new business development. This role is built for a natural salesperson,someone who thrives on winning new clients, building a pipeline, and converting opportunities into long-term accounts. Candidate delivery is part of the role, but your primary focus will be growing revenue through proactive sales activity.

The ideal candidate will have a strong sales or business development background, ideally within recruitment, and an interest in developingexpertisewithin the engineering or finance markets.

Key Responsibilities

New Business Development

• Proactivelyidentify, target, and win new client accounts within engineering and finance sectors
• Build a strong, sustainable pipeline of prospective clients
• Negotiate terms of business and commercial agreements with new clients
• Track and report on sales activity, pipeline progress, and conversion rates against targets

Account Growth & Client Relationships

• Convert new client wins into long-term, repeat-business accounts
• Identifyopportunities to cross-sell and upselladditionalrecruitment services
• Build trusted relationships with key decision-makers and hiring managers
• Providemarket insights, salary benchmarking, and hiring advice to win client confidence

Recruitment Delivery

• Manage the recruitment process for your own clients from brief to placement
• Source and engage candidates to fulfil client requirements
• Coordinate interviews and lead offer negotiations to successful close
• Work closely withresourcers/support staff to ensure roles are filled efficiently

Required Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proventrack recordin a sales, business development, or new client acquisition role
• Demonstrable success meeting or exceeding sales targets and KPIs
• Excellent negotiation, influencing, and closing skills
• Confident, persuasive communicator, comfortable with high-volume outbound activity
• Resilient, with the ability to handle rejection and stay motivated

Desirable

• Experience in a 360 recruitmentconsultant role, ideally in engineering or finance
• Existing network of client contacts within target sectors
• Experience using CRM systems to manage pipeline and sales activity

Personal Attributes

• Highly competitive and target-driven
• Confident, persistent, and comfortable picking up the phone
• Commercially sharp with a hunter mentality for new business
• Self-motivated with strong personal accountability for results

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary with an uncapped, sales-weighted commission structure
• Accelerated career progression for top sales performers
• Ongoing sales and negotiation training
• Fast-paced, high-performing, target-driven team culture
• Flexible working options (if applicable)

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