Senior Recruitment Consultant

Hays; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Recruitment Consultant to join their dynamic team in Leeds. This role offers the chance to manage a 360 recruitment desk focused on primary education, where you will source candidates for both temporary and permanent positions. With a culture that celebrates success and rewards performance, you will have the flexibility to influence your own earning potential. The company promotes a supportive environment with a focus on work-life balance, and provides best-in-class technology and training programs to ensure your career progression. If you're driven and ambitious, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working patterns

Best technology in the industry

Renowned training programme

Paid volunteering days

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Incentives and rewards

Qualifications

• Proven track record of success in a 360 recruitment role.
• Commercially aware and innovative approach to recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a fast-paced 360 temp desk for primary schools.
• Provide expert advice to candidates and clients.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Business development

Client relationship management

Sales skills

Education

Relevant recruitment experience

Tools

Recruitment software

CRM systems

Job description

Senior Recruitment Consultant Upwards - Permanent - Leeds – Hays Education

The Opportunity

The Hays Education Division in Leeds is a 4-person team covering schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts across the West Yorkshire area, both temp and perm.

Our team has over 80 years of experience in the Education market and has a high-performance mindset, delivering impressive year-on-year growth. However, they also promote flexibility to support work-life balance.

The Leeds office services a number of industries including Construction, Legal, HR, Business Support, and Technology. A short walk from the train station, the office is complete with breakout rooms, booths for team meetings, and a furnished rooftop terrace where everyone regularly takes part in activities and celebrations.

The Desk:

This is an established desk recruiting for primary schools across the Bradford area, sourcing teachers and teaching assistants for temporary supply assignments, lasting from just a day through to long-term absences and maternity covers, along with roles on a permanent basis. There is great opportunity to grow the desk further as there are over 150 primary schools in the area. There are existing school relationships in place with a growing daybook, but also the chance to develop your own new business.

What can I expect day to day?

As an experienced Recruitment Consultant, you'll have the freedom to do things differently, supported by colleagues and a leadership team with a wealth of experience in the education recruitment sector. Your job role will include:

1. Running a fast-paced 360 temp desk
2. Providing expert, specialist advice to candidates and clients
3. Developing and implementing effective individual business and sales plans
4. Working longer hours during term time, 7am-4:30pm, with reduced hours during holidays, 8am-2pm
5. Facilitating to an advanced level the end-to-end recruitment process, including bespoke packages
6. Leading by example through exceptional, consistent fee performance, activity, and attitude
7. Consistently developing market intelligence
8. Working with the leadership team on initiatives and projects

Here at Hays, you really can influence your own earning potential, by getting out what you put in. Your energy and dedication will be rewarded in a culture built on celebrating success.

What you'll need to succeed

1. Proven track record of billing success within a 360 recruitment position
2. Be commercially aware, innovative, and ambitious in your approach
3. Confidence when conducting new business development calls and leading client sales meetings

What you will get in return

1. Culture built on rewarding success and the opportunity to influence your earning potential
2. Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development
3. Flexible hybrid working patterns
4. Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally, and nationally
5. Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits
6. Community of internal support networks
7. Paid volunteering days for all employees under our Working for Your Tomorrow Initiative

Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges, and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let’s work together to create it!

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture of opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career.