Driving Recruitment Consultant

Thrive Group; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped commission

Centralised payroll

Paid day off for birthday

25 days holiday + BH

Full training provided

Employee support 24/7

Job summary

Thrive Group in Bolton is seeking a Driving Recruitment Consultant to join a busy, fast-paced team. You will build relationships with clients in the Northwest, source and place driving candidates, and manage the full recruitment lifecycle from advert writing to interviews and placements.

You will be delivering excellent customer service while meeting targets and maintaining compliance. The role includes an on-site office presence with a 24/7 on-call rota, and offers a competitive salary with an

Qualifications

• Confident communicator at all levels with strong presentation, verbal, and written skills.
• Experience in sales—face to face and on the phone.
• Solid knowledge of the North West recruitment market and client/candidate opportunities.
• Ability to identify and recruit candidates matching client needs.
• Experience managing clients and candidates under pressure.
• Proactive, tenacious, and operates with integrity.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business by phone or face to face with clients, promoting Thrive Group.
• Deliver excellent customer service and nurture client relationships.
• Manage candidates daily: respond to adverts, CV search, and write/place job adverts.
• Conduct interviews and keep candidates informed of opportunities.
• Proactively market candidates to clients and current clients.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and quality standards, maintain records.
• Cover out-of-hours rota on a 24/7 basis to support clients and candidates.
• Understand forecasts, budgets and targets to run a profitable desk.

Skills

Sales experience

Communication skills

Candidate management

Business development

Networking

Tools

CRM software

Job description

Thrive Group is a well-established and reputable recruitment business providing high quality services across our specialist sectors within Industrial, Driving and Professional recruitment. With increased demand from key clients and ambitions to grow our business, we are looking for a Driving Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team in Bolton.

You will be working in a fast-paced, varied and often challenging working environment! You will need to be able to think on your feet, prioritise a busy workload and respond quickly to changing demands.

Main responsibilities include:

• Business development, this can be by phone or face to face with new or existing clients. This can include cold calling prospective clients, attending client meetings and promoting the Thrive brand.
• Delivering exceptional customer service. Supporting and nurturing existing client relationships.
• Day to day candidate management, which will include handling advert responses, and CV searching for candidates on job boards. You will be required to write and place job adverts using a variety of media to attract suitable applicants.
• Conducting interviews and keeping candidates updated with new opportunities.
• Proactively selling candidates to prospective clients/ current clients.
• Ensuring compliance with legislation and quality standards, including keeping electronic and paper-based records up to date.
• Out of hours mobile phone, offering our clients and candidates 24/7 point of contact. This will be shared on a rota basis amongst the team.
• Be familiar with forecasts, budgets and targets and understand what is required to run a profitable desk.

What you will need to succeed:

• A confident communicator at all levels with excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Sales experience - Face to face and on the phone
• Excellent knowledge of the North West recruitment market and client/candidate opportunities.
• Ability to identify and recruit candidates successfully matching our client needs.
• Have experience of managing clients and candidates under pressure.
• Be proactive and tenacious and work with integrity at all times.

Working hours:

• Monday to Thursday (Apply online only)
• Friday (Apply online only)
• 24/7 on call required on a rota basis

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Fantastic uncapped commission structure
• Additional New Business bonuses
• Centralised payroll
• Support with compliance via our compliance team
• Online candidate portal
• Simple and easy CRM system
• Workplace pension
• Paid day off for your birthday
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Holiday to increase after 5 years length of service to 28 days + Bank Holidays
• Holiday buy back scheme
• Full training provided, with management/sales courses available.
• Employee support: with access to counsellors 24/7