Account Director - Manchester / Leeds

Recruitment Pursuits Ltd

Manchester

On-site

GBP 50,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Bonus
24 days holiday
Pension
Company Car or Allowance
Healthcare

Job summary

An established recruitment company seeks an experienced Account Director to oversee operations in Manchester and Leeds. This role involves leading a growing team, enhancing client relationships, and ensuring service excellence across diverse accounts. A strong background in recruitment, along with people management and business development skills, is essential for driving the company’s growth and achieving set objectives.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading remote, onsite complex businesses in recruitment.
  • Management of corporate accounts delivering temp and contract recruitment services.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the recruitment team across sites and ensure service excellence.
  • Manage client relationships and drive account profitability and performance.
  • Conduct service reviews and maintain key client contacts.

Skills

Customer Service
Business Development
People Management
Communication

Education

A-levels

Job description

A trulyoutstanding opportunity foran experienced Account Director, covering Manchester & Leeds, currently overseeing 8 consultants. You could be based in either site but would travel extensively between the two. The company has anexcellent reputation for providing a professional recruitment service tocompanies of all sizes andcan boast to having an exceptional client base.

This role offers an amazing opportunity for growth with the scope to take these teams to around 25 headcount over the next year. The right person will be hands on and be prepared to lead from the front.

You will need to display the following personal attributes to succeed in the role :

  • Awareness and aptitude for excellent customer service
  • Numerate and detail-conscious
  • Strong relationship and influencing skills
  • Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing and comfortable working with clients and colleagues at all levels
  • High level of self-motivation and hard working.
  • Able to respond well to pressure, tight deadlines and flexible hours in order to achieve agreed objectives

You will be expected to:

  • Understand the main drivers, dynamics and direction of your accounts
  • Where appropriate, ensure the account team qualify job roles or service requirements, including budgets, timescales, expectations and costs with the client
  • Act as point of referral for escalation of client issues
  • Ensure regular service/performance reviews are performed with the client at all levels
  • Create, manage and maintain the key client contacts at all level
  • Build relationships with all key decision makers and facilitate meetings
  • Ensure performance for the account is in line with agreed contractual terms
  • Constantly recognise opportunities for improving profitability within the Account portfolio in line with agreed targets
  • Drive sales, quality of service, cost of delivery, and compliance by providing and monitoring KPI’s on all aspects of the service across the portfolio
  • Ensure business is properly controlled in terms of financial reporting and risk management.
  • Identify and eliminate non value-added services /activities at every level within the business operation
We will require you to have experience of:
  • Leading remote, onsite complex businesses, delivering core as well as innovative recruitment offerings to clients within Sales & Marketing.
  • Management of corporate accounts in the delivery of large volumes of temps, specialist permanent and contract recruitment services
Qualifications

Job Details

Sales & Marketing

Director/Senior Management

Full time


A trulyoutstanding opportunity foran experienced Account Director, covering Manchester & Leeds, currently overseeing 8 consultants. You could be based in either site but would travel extensively between the two. The company has anexcellent reputation for providing a professional recruitment service tocompanies of all sizes andcan boast to having an exceptional client base.

This role offers an amazing opportunity for growth with the scope to take these teams to around 25 headcount over the next year. The right person will be hands on and be prepared to lead from the front.

You will need to display the following personal attributes to succeed in the role :

  • Strong people-management skills
  • Awareness and aptitude for excellent customer service
  • Business development skills
  • Numerate and detail-conscious
  • Strong relationship and influencing skills
  • Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing and comfortable working with clients and colleagues at all levels
  • High level of self-motivation and hard working.
  • Able to respond well to pressure, tight deadlines and flexible hours in order to achieve agreed objectives

You will be expected to:

  • Understand the main drivers, dynamics and direction of your accounts
  • Where appropriate, ensure the account team qualify job roles or service requirements, including budgets, timescales, expectations and costs with the client
  • Act as point of referral for escalation of client issues
  • Ensure regular service/performance reviews are performed with the client at all levels
  • Create, manage and maintain the key client contacts at all level
  • Build relationships with all key decision makers and facilitate meetings
  • Ensure performance for the account is in line with agreed contractual terms
  • Constantly recognise opportunities for improving profitability within the Account portfolio in line with agreed targets
  • Drive sales, quality of service, cost of delivery, and compliance by providing and monitoring KPI’s on all aspects of the service across the portfolio
  • Ensure business is properly controlled in terms of financial reporting and risk management.
  • Identify and eliminate non value-added services /activities at every level within the business operation
We will require you to have experience of:
  • Leading remote, onsite complex businesses, delivering core as well as innovative recruitment offerings to clients within Sales & Marketing.
  • Management of corporate accounts in the delivery of large volumes of temps, specialist permanent and contract recruitment services
Qualifications
Educated to A-level standard
Benefits
  • Bonus
  • 24 days holiday
  • Pension
  • Company Car or Allowance
  • Healthcare
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