Recruitment Consultant Construction (3 days in office)

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced recruitment consultant to join their team in London. The role involves strategic recruitment for senior-level candidates within the construction sector. Ideal candidates will have at least one year of experience and a strong commercial acumen. This is a hybrid position offering flexibility in salary based on experience and contributions.

Qualifications

• 1+ years recruitment experience in the built environment sector.
• Experience filling commercial roles (IT, Property, legal, construction).
• Familiarity with LinkedIn headhunting.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic approaches to recruitment.
• Headhunt senior level candidates.
• Grow a recruitment desk and team.

Skills

360 recruitment experience

Headhunting senior level candidates

Commercial acumen

Open mindedness

Ambition and motivation

Job description

Overview

My client, a Construction recruitment agency, are seeking experienced recruitment consultants to join their growing team. You will need to have experience hiring White Collar Perm or Freelance professionals within the construction industry. They are a White Collar specialist construction search agency, focussing on roles between £50K and £120K in London and surrounding areas.

Hybrid Role (3 days in the office). Must be reasonably able to commute to Canary Wharf. They are looking for someone with a long-term plan who wants to stay long term and become a future manager on the team.

Role

• Strategic and well thought out and planned approaches to Main contracting and Sub-contracting market.
• Head hunting senior level white collar candidates.
• Grow a desk and recruit in own right, whilst also hiring a team and growing the business.
• Will take on more and more responsibility with the idea that you will have your own vertical and hubs/teams that you manage with different verticals in White Collar.
• Drive the business forward, embody the start up mentality, be a leader, market the business, network and get their name out there.
• Strategically partner clients, and form close working, long term relationships to grow big accounts that the business can then service as it grows.

Ideal Candidate

• Ideally you will have 1 plus years 360 recruitment experience within the built environment sector.
• You will be mentored and supported by the MD and work very closely with him in terms of coaching and development.
• Ideally you will have been a perm consultant or run a dual desk.
• Open minded consultants who are able to change the way they work or see things, and who want to constantly learn, improve and push themselves forward.
• They are open on hiring from different recruitment sector backgrounds but needs to have experience filling commercial roles (IT, Property, legal, construction white collar, finance etc).
• Ideally you will have some experience of hiring senior level or hard to fill, candidate scarce roles.
• LinkedIn Headhunt experience and proficiency would be perfect.
• Someone ambitious, that wants to progress and hit promotions.
• Someone with commercial acumen that would put a business plan together with the MD for their desk and hold their own talking to senior level candidates, and main contracting clients.
• Cultural fit is very important, need to be a go getter type personality with ideas, drive and motivation, someone who will work in partnership with the MD, to bounce ideas off each other and drive the business forward.

Earning Potential

Salary and package is flexible depending on the individual, their experience, and what they can bring to the role, but the client is very realistic in terms of salary and flexible to secure the right candidate to some extent.

• No threshold before you earn commission
• Earn 10% commission for the first £50K you bill in a half year, earn 30% for everything you bill over £50K for the half year.
• Average fees are £8K to £10K
• Example Bill £300K and earn £70K in Commission.

To find out more about this exciting opportunity please contact Emma Vata or apply below