Recruitment Consultant

IRD Recruitment; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary £30k+

Uncapped commission

Direct oversight by owner

Job summary

IRD Recruitment is growing and launching a new office in Bedford. You will build the desk from scratch, choosing the market and establishing a client base across Bedford and the surrounding area. This is a true 360 role with full autonomy and a clear path to significant earnings.

You’ll run the complete cycle—business development, candidate sourcing, interviewing, placing and account management—while working with a nimble team behind you.

Qualifications

• Proven 360 recruitment experience, ideally in industrial, warehouse, driving or construction.

Responsibilities

• Choose your market and build a client base from scratch across Bedford and the surrounding area.
• Run the full 360 process: business development, candidate sourcing, interviewing, placing & account management.
• Set the tone for what IRD looks like in a brand new territory.
• Work closely with the wider IRD team, but without someone looking over your shoulder telling you how to do it.
• Building relationships that turn into repeat business, not one-off placements.

Skills

360 recruitment experience

New business development

Ambiguity tolerance

Commercial mindset

Job description

IRD Recruitment are growing. We’re a fast growing, small, nimble agency based in Bedfordshire looking to hire our next superstar into the business.

The opportunity

IRD Recruitment has spent over a decade placing drivers and warehouse staff across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Luton and Dunstable, and we've just launched into construction recruitment too. Now we're opening a new office in Bedford, & we need someone to build the desk that goes with it.

This isn't a role where you inherit a book of business and keep it warm. There's no existing desk to take over. You choose the market, industrial, warehouse, driving or construction, & you build it in your way, with the support of the team here at IRD behind you.

It’s a great opportunity for a recruiter who perhaps wants more autonomy, more freedom & more excitement in their career & wants to be part of a growing business where they really can make an impact & make a difference.

You’ll no doubt come from an agency background already in a market you know very well & you’re no doubt keen to build a presence from the ground up within a business with undiluted support & resources behind you.

If so, this is for you.

What you’ll be doing

• Choosing your market & building a client base from scratch across Bedford & the surrounding area
• Running the full 360 process: business development, candidate sourcing, interviewing, placing & account management
• Setting the tone for what IRD looks like in a brand new territory
• Working closely with the wider IRD team, but without someone looking over your shoulder telling you how to do it
• Building relationships that turn into repeat business, not one-off placements

What we’re looking for

• Proven 360 recruitment experience, ideally in industrial, warehouse, driving or construction, but we'll listen to a strong case from elsewhere
• A genuine track record of winning new business, not just working leads that were handed to you
• Comfortable with ambiguity. There's no script here, & no one else's desk to copy
• Financially motivated & honest about it. This role pays well because it's built for people who want to earn well
• Based within commuting distance of Bedford

What’s in it for you

• Full autonomy over which market you build, and how you build it
• Minimum £30,000 p/a plus a commission structure that will never penalise you for growth; genuinely no ceiling on what you can earn
• Backing from an agency with over 10 years of credibility already established in the region
• The chance to build something that’s genuinely yours, not a desk that already has someone else’s fingerprints on it
• A direct line to the business owner, not five layers of management between you & a decision. We’re nimble, we’re small & we’re keen to grow.