Principal Consultant

Corecom Consulting; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Coaching and development

Training & Development

Friendly culture

Summer & ski incentives

Flexible lunch hours

Gym membership discounts

Job summary

Corecom Consulting in Leeds seeks an experienced recruitment professional to drive billing and end-to-end recruitment activities. You will manage relationships with candidates and clients, guiding junior team members and leading campaigns across multiple sectors.

You will develop sourcing strategies, attract top tech talent, and deliver high-quality hires while expanding business opportunities. A dynamic, collaborative culture awaits.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of billings and building strong relationships with candidates and clients from day one.
• Self-motivated with KPI mindset and proactive you.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment cycle from candidate attraction to offer management.
• Develop sourcing strategies and build relevant talent pools.
• Identify new business opportunities and manage accounts effectively.
• Build strong client and candidate relationships for long-term partnerships.

Skills

Billings track record

Self-motivated

Verbal & written communication

Autonomy within process

Job description

By now, you’ll be an expert in your business areas. You’ll have long standing relationships with both candidates and clients; vacancies and candidates will come to you organically through industry peers seeking advice from you as an industry expert. You’ll be looked up to by your colleagues and held in esteem for your achievements to date. You’ll be demonstrating excellent skills across the entire 360-recruitment process; you’ll be confident managing the recruitment cycle from candidate attraction to new business development, where you’ll face any challenges in a positive manner. You’re process driven approach will allow you to deal with issues as they arise and you’ll be a master at client and candidate control. Jedi’s have nothing on you!

You will become a consistent billing member of the team whilst being an invaluable resource to your colleagues, guiding junior members on good recruitment practise. You’ll share creative candidate generation techniques and offer advice on how to work challenging vacancies. You will be an expert using agency recruitment tools – CRM systems, LI Recruiter for head hunting activities, however, your strong connections and robust industry network will be your secret weapon.

You will partner with a range of clients from exciting start up companies to thriving businesses to help them source some of the best tech candidates on the market. You will drive the business forward and conduct a variety of new business development activities to target companies across multiple sectors.

Key Accountabilities:

• Monitoring your own activity, setting weekly KPI’s and quarterly objectives to keep yourself on track.
• Be a resource for the junior members in your team to support them in dealing with difficult recruitment issues.
• Develop a good understanding of the technology industry.
• Advertising vacancies by writing engaging content to publish across our social media sites and industry specific job boards.
• Manage the full end-to-end recruitment cycle from initial hiring manager briefing through to offer management.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies and channels to build relevant talent pools of candidates to ensure you have up to date market knowledge.
• Identify and attend relevant industry exhibitions both day and evening, in order to gain market knowledge and build unique 1-2-1 relationships with key stakeholders.
• Understand client time pressures and respond accordingly.
• Build strong client and candidate relationships to ensure long term buy in rather than transactional delivery.
• Identify new business opportunities and manage existing accounts effectively.
• Constantly seek to add value to the clients’ business.
• Attract and identify candidates using the appropriate industry methods including social media, networking, head hunting and referrals. Use CRM to find suitable candidates to match the client’s vacancy specification.
• Short list and screen candidates.
• Engage candidates with the job role, discussing the vision and potential as well as salary and benefits, consistently selling against their motivations.
• Take candidates though a comprehensive interview preparation. Ensure they are comfortable at each stage, and they have a full understanding of the client culture and the process upfront. Build connections and see patterns that could help to build rapport on both sides.
• Obtain interview feedback from both sides and follow this up in good time. Deliver feedback with honesty and with the aim of improving both client and candidates experience. Take on board what could be improved each time and feedback accordingly.
• Understand and meet agreed personal KPIs and targets.
• Remaining GDPR compliant at all times in line with internal and government guidelines.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven track record of billings and able to hit the ground running building strong relationships with candidates and clients from day one.
• Hungry and determined personality.
• Self-motivated – you see KPI’s as an advantage not a hinderance.
• Able to work autonomously yet stay within the process framework.
• Willingness to follow a well-honed recruitment process which is standardised throughout Corecom to ensure good practise throughout the business.
• Skilled in verbal and written communication.
• A planner, analyser, and coordinator.
• Possesses traits to influence and gain buy in from others.
• Leads by example- demonstrates best recruitment practise.
• Understands urgency and has the desire to win.
• Flexible by nature and able to meet the changing needs of the business.
• Is constantly looking to develop their sales skills.
• Outgoing and socially confident.
• Ambitious and driven- wants to work as part of a high performing organisation.
• Adds to the sense of ‘culture’ with Corecom, regularly attends company functions (both in and out of work hours) to develop internal relationships.

What we offer:

• Structured career progression
• Coaching and development from established teams
• Training & Development
• A friendly culture, where we encourage you to be yourself
• Company summer & ski holiday incentives
• Flexibly lunch hours – for all gym goers! Plus, discounted gym membership!

At Corecom, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them and thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients and our candidates. Internally, we thrive from our difference and want our employees to be proud to be themselves and proud to be Corecom. Externally, we utilise those differences to help our clients and candidate strive for a more diverse and inclusive world.