Team Leader

Corecom Consulting; Leeds; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured career progression

Coaching & development

Training & development

Friendly culture

Company trips (summer & ski)

Flexible lunch hours

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

Corecom Consulting in Leeds is seeking an experienced Team Lead to drive the recruitment function and coach a high-performing team. You will lead by example across the 360-recruitment process, mentor consultants, and push for consistent billing while expanding the client and candidate network.

You will manage end-to-end recruitment, plan development activities, and contribute to new business opportunities. A strong emphasis on leadership, strategy, and target achievement is required.

Qualifications

• Must have a minimum of 5 years' experience in recruitment—agency preferred.
• Experience as a 360 recruitment consultant with niche market exposure.
• Experience managing a team for at least 1 year ideal.
• Proven track record of billing and building client relationships from day one.
• Ambitious, self-motivated and able to work autonomously within a structured process.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a recruitment team, setting weekly KPIs and quarterly objectives.
• Conduct regular team meetings and plan work to meet deliverables.
• Drive end-to-end recruitment from candidate attraction to offer management.
• Develop business plans with management and nurture client relationships.
• Source candidates through diverse channels and maintain active talent pools.
• Collaborate on growth strategies and new business opportunities across sectors.
• Maintain GDPR compliance and uphold candidate/client confidentiality.
• Represent Corecom Swift at industry events and network with key stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Coaching & mentoring

360-recruitment

Client relationships

Sales target achievement

KPI planning & review

People development

Business development

Strategic thinking

Tools

CRM systems

LinkedIn Recruiter

Candidate sourcing

Networking

Job description

Our Team Leads play a vital role in the continued growth and success of the business, playing a fundamental part in enabling our ambitious but achievable growth plans!

You’ll either already have experience managing people or be hungry to demonstrate your strong leadership skills; and you’ll be eager to pass on your expertise through coaching, mentoring and leading by example. You’ll contribute to the financial success of the business and be inspirational to your colleagues; encouraging them to perform and meet their sales targets!

Working on a niche area of the business, you will lead the team by demonstrating excellent skills across the 360-recruitment process; you’ll be confident managing the recruitment cycle from candidate attraction to new business development. You will be a consistent billing member of the team whilst being an invaluable resource to the Consultants who you will mentor and coach along their Milestones at Corecom. You’ll facilitate them in generating ideas on how to work difficult vacancies – thinking outside of the box to attract candidates from other sourcing methods outside of the database and LinkedIn. You will be an expert using agency recruitment tools – CRM systems, LI Recruiter for head hunting activities and be a skilled networker who can build strong connections throughout the industry.

You will partner with a range of clients from exciting start-up companies to thriving businesses to help them source some of the best tech candidates on the market. You’ll become a specialist within your market working to nurture and grow a specialist network of both clients and candidates alongside building your own brand.

You will drive the business forward and support the team in new business development activities to target companies across multiple sectors. You’ll understand the importance of team development and encourage your team to take ownership and accountability of their own progress, pushing them to continual promotion. Their success will be a reflection on your coaching ability, and you’ll celebrate their progress through the Corecom milestones.

Key Accountabilities:

• Monitoring activity across your team, setting weekly KPI’s and quarterly objectives for your team.
• Conduct weekly meetings with your team to help them plan their work.
• Collecting weekly data for the SMT – enabling you to provide an accurate overview as to whether your team are on or off track to meet their deliverables.
• Be a resource for your team to deal with difficult recruitment issues, escalating them to SMT where needed.
• Work with the management team to develop business development plans for your line reports, individually and as a team.
• Provide session mentoring to your team as needed.
• Advertising vacancies by writing engaging content to publish across our social media sites and industry specific job boards.
• Manage the full end-to-end recruitment cycle from initial hiring manager briefing through to offer management.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies and channels to build relevant talent pools of candidates to ensure you have up to date market knowledge.
• Identify and attend relevant industry exhibitions both day and evening, in order to gain market knowledge and build unique 1-2-1 relationships with key stakeholders.
• Understand client time pressures and respond accordingly.
• Build strong client and candidate relationships to ensure long term buy in rather than transactional.
• Identify new business opportunities and manage existing accounts effectively.
• Constantly seek to add value to the clients’ business.
• Attract and identify candidates using the appropriate industry methods including social media, networking, head hunting and referrals. Use CRM to find suitable candidates to match the client’s vacancy specification.
• Short list and screen candidates. Demonstrates Leadership qualities.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills; you will be approachable and available for team support.
• Skilled in verbal and written communication.
• A planner, analyser, and coordinator.
• Possesses traits to influence and gain buy in from others.
• Leads by example- demonstrates best recruitment practise.
• Understands urgency and has the desire to win.
• Flexible by nature and able to meet the changing needs of the business.
• Outgoing and socially confident.
• Ambitious and driven- wants to work as part of a high performing organisation.
• Adds to the sense of ‘culture” with Aardvark Swift, regularly attends company functions (both in and out of work hours) to develop internal relationships.
• Engage candidates with the job role, discussing the vision and potential as well as salary and benefits.
• Take candidates though a comprehensive interview preparation. Ensure they are comfortable at each stage, and they have a full understanding of the client culture and the process upfront. Build connections and see patterns that could help to build rapport on both sides.
• Obtain interview feedback from both sides and follow this up in good time. Deliver feedback with honesty and with the aim of improving both client and candidates experience. Take on board what could be improved each time and feedback accordingly.
• Understand and meet agreed personal KPIs and targets.
• Remaining GDPR compliant at all times in line with internal and government guidelines.

Skills & Experience:

• Must have a minimum 5years’ experiencein recruitment – agency preferable over internal.
• Experience as a “360” perms recruitment consultant; experience within a niche market.
• Experience on managing a team – minimum of 1 year ideally.
• Proven track record of billings and able to hit the ground running building strong relationships with candidates and clients from day one.
• Hungry and determined personality.
• Self-motivated.
• Able to work autonomously yet stay within the process framework.
• Willingness to follow a well‑honed recruitment process which is standardised throughout Corecom to ensure good practise throughout the business.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills; you will be approachable and available for team support.
• Skilled in verbal and written communication.
• A planner, analyser and coordinator.
• Possesses traits to influence and gain buy in from others.
• Leads by example- demonstrates best recruitment practise.
• Understands urgency and has the desire to win.
• Flexible by nature and able to meet the changing needs of the business.
• Outgoing and socially confident.
• Ambitious and driven- wants to work as part of a high performing organisation.
• Adds to the sense of ‘culture” with Corecom Swift, regularly attends company functions (both in and out of work hours) to develop internal relationships.

What we offer:

• Structured career progression
• Coaching and development from established teams
• Training & Development
• A friendly culture, where we encourage you to be yourself
• Company summer & ski holiday incentives
• Flexibly lunch hours – for all gym goers! Plus, discounted gym membership!

At Corecom, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them and thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients and our candidates. Internally, we thrive from our difference and want our employees to be proud to be themselves and proud to be Corecom. Externally, we utilise those differences to help our clients and candidate strive for a more diverse and inclusive world.