Recruitment Consultant

Blue Arrow; Norwich; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Blue Arrow as a Recruitment Consultant in Norwich. This role offers a chance to enhance your career by engaging with clients and recruiting talent across various sectors including industrial and hospitality. Embrace hybrid working and enjoy a supportive environment focused on your growth with ongoing training and flexible benefits.

Benefits

Salary up to 30k basic + uncapped bonus

Hybrid working

Performance-based quarterly salary reviews

25 days holiday increasing to 30

Focused wellbeing programme

Birthday off and buy additional holiday

Fully paid day off for charity work

Wide range of flexible benefits

Long service and recognition awards

Ongoing training and development support

Qualifications

• Strong business development or sales background.
• Passion for helping candidates find jobs.
• No prior experience in recruitment necessary.

Responsibilities

• Identifying client leads and making business development calls.
• Developing client relationships and managing accounts.
• Sourcing and recruiting staff for temporary positions.

Skills

Business development

Sales

Client relationship management

Job description

At Blue Arrow, we're redefining the world of recruitment. We don't simply hire recruitment consultants, we invest in Recruitment Superheroes with a passion for people and purpose and ambitions of progression, rewards and so much more.

We have been named as a Financial Times Diversity Leader, awarded Best Companies three-star rating, the highest possible level representing organisations that excel at world class levels of workplace engagement, and we continue to be an Investors in People Platinum employer - the highest accolade that can be achieved. Making Blue Arrow a truly great place to work.

At Blue Arrow, we genuinely care about creating a diverse and inclusive team, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because we know it makes us a stronger, better business. We are searching for people that share our excitement and passion for what we do, and we will continue to grow our #OneBlueFamily with brilliant people from all different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, celebrating our differences and knowing that collectively we make the difference.

We're a team of high-achievers we're also parents, mentors, gym-goers, animal-lovers, bakers, music-lovers and so much more. We're Blue Arrow, and we're dedicated to Enhancing Your Everyday with our people-first priorities, Progression, Purpose, Teamwork, Rewards and Performance.

Sounds like something you'd like to be part of?

Join our #OneBlueFamily at our Norwich, Norfolk branch as a Recruitment Consultant (or Senior or Executive Recruitment Consultant) to grow and manage a desk that supplies temporary industrial, Catering and Hospitality or office staff to clients in the Norfolk and Suffolk area's.

If you do not have recruitment sector experience but can offer a strong business development/sales background and would like to pursue a recruitment career then you can join us initially in a trainee Recruitment Associate role with promotion to a Consultant on successfully passing your probation.

As a Recruitment Consultant you are supported by our advanced technology systems and as such, we embrace hybrid working and offer our people the flexibility to work from home for a proportion of their week after onboarding and performing. We are also committed to maximising wellbeing which is why we have a dedicated Out of Hours service that can support our Operational teams when it's time to relax.

Some of your day-to-day responsibilities as a Recruitment Consultant will include:

• Identifying client leads and making business to business outbound sales calls
• Developing existing, new and lapsed business and client relationships
• Proactive sales activities and working to targets
• Travelling to visit clients for meetings so ideally you will need to drive and have access to a car
• Sourcing and recruiting staff for temporary bookings
• Negotiating, offering solutions and overcoming objections
• Service management - compliance, payroll, administration, updating systems

Blue Arrow is a leading global Talent Acquisition and Managed Workforce Solutions provider. Blue Arrow specialises in staffing for Admin & Secretarial including Call Centre, Transport & Logistics, Hospitality & Catering, Manufacturing & Production and Public Sector.

Some of the Benefits, Training and Development we offer:

• Salary range up to 30k basic + uncapped bonus
• Hybrid working from home and the office
• Performance based quarterly salary reviews as a Recruitment Consultant and clear career path
• Dedicated structured support for new starters, including performance and development support, goal setting and advice on navigating your way through your new job
• 25 days holiday (plus public holidays) increasing by length of service until it reaches 30 days
• Focused wellbeing programme, including access to a network of mental health first aiders and a full subscription to the Calm mindfulness app
• Your Birthday off and you can buy extra holidays
• Fully paid day off for charity work of your choice
• Wide range of flexible and lifestyle benefits
• Long service and recognition awards
• Ongoing training and development
• Very experienced Branch Manager

Proud to be an inclusive and equitable employer:

We are committed to being a Disability Confident Employer. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from candidates with a disability and commit to interview these candidates if their application meets the minimum criteria for the role - just tell us when applying.

We are also a forces-friendly employer and extend the same interview guarantee to any current reservists, ex-armed forces personnel or forces spouses/partners applying.

To ensure you have the best experience with us, please let us know if we can make any adjustments to our application or interview process and feel free to note in your application which pronouns you use.

We consider ourselves to be an equitable employer which celebrates diversity and encourages inclusion. Our ongoing commitments to Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion means we recognise candidates may want to anonymise their cv during the application process, if you wish to do this, you are welcome to do so.