Senior Recruitment Consultant

Hays; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Hays is looking for a Senior Recruitment Consultant to join its successful London Life Sciences team. This role requires a sales-driven individual with a proven track record in recruitment and business development. You will be responsible for building relationships within the pharmaceutical sector and sourcing the best candidates for interim roles. Enjoy uncapped commission, comprehensive training, and the opportunity to work within a vibrant and collaborative culture.

Benefits

Uncapped individual commission

Regular performance-based incentives

Industry-leading learning and development

Flexible working hours

Diverse employee support networks

Qualifications

• Proven track record in recruitment and business development.
• Highly driven and ambitious individual.
• Ability to inspire and drive success in a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with recruitment professionals.
• Source, screen, and recruit top-tier candidates.
• Participate in internal projects and ensure compliance.

Skills

Sales-driven

Business development

Resilience

Education

Experience as Senior Recruitment Consultant or above

Job description

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Talent Acquisition Business Director at Hays

Senior Recruitment Consultant

London – Hays Recruitment

We are seeking a sales-driven Senior Recruitment Consultant to join our flagship London office in our Life Sciences team. As a Senior Consultant, your primary focus will be to develop and nurture relationships within pharmaceutical companies.

You will actively seek out and meet with Recruitment teams, Directors, line managers, and other key stakeholders. As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, you will be recruiting the best and most experienced candidates for interim roles within this busy sector. The desk available in this market has derived its success from repeat and multi-sector business, billing over £220k in the last two financial years, with genuine potential to grow more.

Your new team

This is an opportunity for an experienced consultant to join one of Hays' most stable businesses with a strong client base and job flow. Any consultant position in this specialism is core to the success of the wider business and is therefore often winning awards and celebrating success. Our Business Support team at our London Central office in Cheapside is a public sector-facing recruitment team that has enjoyed significant success.

This team contributes the third-highest gross fees within our London office and has a long-standing team of experienced consultants to surround you with success. They have won multiple awards and have a high productivity per head.

Your new role

The responsibilities of a Senior Recruitment Consultant include:

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with central government organisations and key decision makers.
• Actively seeking and engaging with in-house recruitment professionals, directors, and line managers.
• Sourcing, screening and recruiting top-tier candidates for interim roles.
• Drafting reports, ensuring compliance across all activities, and participating in internal projects.
• Contribute to the development and growth of the business, especially your Business Support team.

Due to the fees already in the area and the potential we have here, to be successful you will need to meet the following criteria:

You will have experience as a Senior Recruitment Consultant or above as well as a proven track record in business development and recruitment. You will be a highly driven, ambitious, and inspiring individual who can drive success in those around you and navigate the highs and lows of recruitment with resilience.

What you’ll get in return

As a multi award-winning employer of choice, we believe as part of the employee and employer deal at Hays, we can give you a career with unrivalled progression. Our culture is a reason why so many of our people choose to stay and grow their careers with Hays.

We are big on collaboration and driven to connect with each other on a genuine human level. We call it the Hays spirit. You will experience this inclusive, motivating energy in every part of our business.

In addition, you will enjoy:

• Uncapped individual commission paid upon invoice every 4 weeks
• Regular performance-based incentive programmes including all-expense paid international trips
• A culture underpinned with trust, which is based on expertise, training, collaboration, inclusivity and doing the right thing
• Industry-leading learning and development to maximise your performance and advance your career every step of the way
• A global brand with established PSL agreements and warm client relationships
• An adult approach to working with hybrid working models and flexible working hours
• The opportunity to work in any of our 266 offices in 33 countries across the world through our global mobility offering
• Diverse range of employee support networks, wellbeing initiatives and wider benefits

We know talented people want to work with the best: people, brand, tools, technology and infrastructure. They also want career development. Our culture is shaped and created by these features.

We’re also committed to doing the right thing, together. As a progressive employer, we believe in doing the right thing for our people our customers and the communities in which we live and work. We’re constantly working to deliver on our commitments to social purpose, equity, diversity & inclusion and sustainability.

What to do next

Please apply now to become the next Senior Recruitment Consultant or for more information on our roles.

The future is what you make it at Hays – and you’re in the driving seat. Your energy and dedication will be rewarded in a culture built on celebrating success.

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!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales, Business Development, and Consulting

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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