Senior Consultant

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When you join Robert Walters as a Senior Recruitment Consultant , you’ll quickly see that it’s people who make the difference. Matching high-caliber candidates to high-profile businesses where they’ll thrive, you’ll have a personal positive impact on some of the most prestigious corporations and biggest brands in the world. We offer a fun, vibrant and dynamic culture, the flexibility to manage your workload smartly and the high-performance environment you need to reach your full potential. Get ready to step up to the next level.

As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, you’ll be a prominent member of the team. We are seeking a high achiever — someone who can lead by example and get the best out of others.

You’ll work closely with our clients, developing positive, constructive relationships with them as well as with our candidates. You can also expect to create new opportunities and win new business by networking, attending client meetings, gathering market information and making business development calls. Alongside all of that, you’ll lead from the front in an exceptional quality service to our candidates and clients, powering people and organizations to fulfil their unique potential.

Candidate Management

• Manage the recruitment process from beginning to end, including the development and delivery of short and long-term recruitment campaigns
• Source, select and match high quality candidates, ensuring only the best are put forward to our clients for interview
• Organize and coordinate interviews with candidates and fully briefing candidates regarding roles
• Lead and contribute actively to candidate review within your team and present high-quality candidates
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of candidate information within the database

Client Engagement

• Work closely with your manager to continuously develop your business area, negotiating terms to secure exclusive relationships and retain existing business
• Handle a range of accounts and take responsibility for key relationships, ensuring we deliver on all client expectation and our SLAs
• Strategic account management execution where applicable
• Develop existing client relationships and generate new business by networking, gathering market information and making business development calls

Seek Opportunities & Thought Leadership that foster business growth

• Gain a thorough understanding of your client’s business, culture and successfully interpret their unique resourcing requirements and offer a solution focused approach
• Spot new areas of development/specialization for growth
• Organize events/webinars for your clients and candidates, leading in industry specific events
• Demonstrate thought leadership by contributing white papers or organizing industry specific events round tables / webinars
• Keep up to date about industry trends/recruitment best practices to ensure you can provide and demonstrate market knowledge to both candidates and clients
• Actively participate and contribute to all team meetings and provide innovative ideas for business development
• In partnership with your manager, support and identify team and individual areas for development, deputizing for them in their absence
• Potentially mentor less-experienced team members on business development and CV marketing
• Able to lead the team in the absence of the manager
• Source and identify potential recruitment consultants for the team

What You Will Bring

• Prior recruitment experience is necessary, with a successful track record in recruiting within the specialised industry vertical
• The drive to make things happen and consistently hit your targets, even under pressure
• Strong negotiation skills and a highly strategic, commercial mindset
• An entrepreneurial, professional approach and a commitment to self-development
• The ability to maintain a high profile and to set the standards for the team
• Strong problem-solving and lateral-thinking skills; delivering innovative solutions

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Sales and Human Resources

• Human Resources Services and Industrial Machinery Manufacturing