Trainee Recruitment Consultant

Higher Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Higher Group in Manchester city centre is seeking a Trainee Recruitment Consultant with no previous experience required. The role starts in September with a £27,500 starting salary plus uncapped commission, reflecting the ambitious growth path at the firm.

You’ll work directly with founders, investors and senior leadership, focusing on high-impact mandates and building lasting market authority, not transactional placements. This is a high-performance environment.

Qualifications

• An early-career professional with strong ambition.
• Commercially aware and motivated by financial success.
• Resilient, competitive, and goal-driven.
• Interested in building a long-term career in recruitment.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with founders, investors and senior leadership teams.
• Deliver on senior mandates across leadership and team builds.
• Build genuine long-term market authority (not transactional relationships).

Skills

Ambition

Commercial awareness

Resilience

Competitive

Career in recruitment

Job description

Trainee Recruitment Consultant | No Experience Needed

Manchester City Centre | September Start Date

£27,500 starting salary + uncapped commission

Over the last nine years, we’ve been building something different at Higher Group.

A platform that sits at the centre of growth for search, staffing and recruitment firms globally.

We work directly with founders, investors and leadership teams on the decisions that actually move businesses, acquisitions, leadership changes, team builds, and scale-ups.

That focus has just delivered our strongest quarter to date.

The platform is built. The positioning is clear. The next phase is scale.

And that’s where this comes in!

We’re looking for trainee recruiters who want to be a part of something VERY exciting.

The role:

You won’t be dropped into a generic desk.

You’ll operate within a clearly defined vertical, aligned to how your clients actually structure their businesses.

From there, your role is simple:

• Work directly with founders, investors and senior leadership teams


• Deliver on senior mandates across leadership and team builds


• Build genuine long-term market authority (not transactional relationships)

The environment you step into:

This is not a volume-led, transactional recruitment floor.

It’s a performance environment.

You’ll be surrounded by people who are commercially sharp, well-networked, and serious about what they’re building. The leadership team has done this before, so expectations are high, and support is real.

What progression actually looks like here:

It’s not theoretical.

We’ve seen:

• £28k earned in a single month


• £70k commission generated in a quarter

Who you are:

• An early-career professional with strong ambition


• Commercially aware and motivated by financial success


• Resilient, competitive, and goal-driven


• Interested in building a long-term career in recruitment


• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment

Where this leads

Higher Group is building something with intent, a globally recognised recruitment platform with real enterprise value behind it.

For the right people, this isn’t just a new role.

It’s a shift in how you operate, what you’re exposed to, and what you ultimately build for yourself.