Senior Recruitment Consultant (and above) | Senior & Executive Search | Belfast
The Opportunity
A unique opportunity to establish yourself within the Northern Ireland executive search market, partnering with Boards, CEOs and senior leaders on high-value appointments across both the public and private sectors. Supported by Hays’ market-leading brand, established client relationships and proven track record in senior hiring, you’ll inherit a strong platform for success with significant opportunity for growth and long-term career progression.
What Can I Expect Day to Day?
As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, you’ll operate in a highly consultative and relationship-led environment, with responsibility for:
- Managing a mixed public and private sector Senior & Executive Search desk
- Partnering with Boards, CEOs, Managing Directors and senior stakeholders on leadership hiring initiatives
- Leading retained and contingent executive search assignments from briefing through to appointment
- Developing and executing strategic business development plans across a range of sectors
- Advising clients on leadership recruitment, workforce planning and market trend
- Identifying, engaging and assessing executive-level talent through targeted search methodologies.
- Managing the full end-to-end recruitment process for senior appointments
- Building market intelligence and positioning yourself as a trusted advisor within the leadership recruitment market
- Representing Hays at senior networking events, leadership forums and client engagement activities
- Building long-term strategic relationships with both clients and candidates
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- A proven track record within agency recruitment, executive search, professional services recruitment or a commercial business development role.
- Strong relationship-building and business development capability.
- Confidence engaging with senior leaders and board-level stakeholders.
- A consultative and advisory approach with clients and candidates.
- Commercial acumen, ambition and a strong motivation to succeed.
- The credibility to influence senior decision-makers and strategic hiring conversations.
- A collaborative mindset and desire to build a long-term career within a market-leading business
- The ambition to establish yourself as a recognised specialist within the leadership and executive search market.
Why Join Us?
This role offers the opportunity to build and grow a specialist executive search desk within one of Northern Ireland’s most respected recruitment businesses.
You’ll benefit from:
- An established market presence and reputation in executive search, senior leadership and board-level recruitment.
- Access to Hays Executive and a wider portfolio of workforce solutions including Executive Search, Interim Management, MSP, RPO, Talent Advisory and Workforce Planning.
- A proven pipeline of existing relationships, recent executive appointments and future market opportunities.
- A desk that has continued to generate successful placements and client demand despite not having a dedicated specialist leading it.
- Significant growth potential across both public and private sector leadership markets.
- Industry-leading recruitment technology, tools and training.
- Flexible and hybrid working options.
- Clear career progression pathways.
- Market-leading incentives and recognition programmes.
- A collaborative, high-performing culture where success is celebrated.
- Comprehensive wellbeing and employee benefits.
If you’re looking for the opportunity to build your reputation as an Executive Search recruitment specialist while growing a desk with genuine commercial potential, we’d love to hear from you.
Life at Hays offers the chance to grow, develop diverse career paths, tackle meaningful challenges, and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow, whatever your background, let’s create it together.
At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.
Benefits:20-40k OTE
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