Looking for Associate / Consultative Recruiter – Business Development for our team at Antal, Chennai Gemini Circle.
Company description:
Antal International Network is a tenured, global specialism-driven Recruitment company, headquartered in London, UK and with a network of 140+ offices in 38 countries.
This role is with our office in Chennai (Antal Gemini Circle website), headed by Ram Narayanan (Ram's LI profile). Driven by our high-touch, consultative, we source and place top-tier talent, spanning from critical lateral positions to C-suite and CEO-level appointments, for our clients who are premier organizations worldwide,
This role is with our office in Chennai (Antal Gemini Circle website), headed by Ram Narayanan (Ram's LI profile).
- Role: Associate Consultative Recruiter / Consultative Recruiter – Business Development
- Reporting Manager: Managing Partner
Role and responsibilities:
- Overall: Contribute to expanding our client footprint globally while simultaneously also headhunting to place exceptional talent for those very accounts, and nurture long-term relationships, through own and team efforts.
Client Acquisition & Growth (50% Focus):
- Market mapping & prospecting: Identify and target prospective corporate clients that require premium hiring solutions, across geographies, keeping tabs on market and hiring trends, using insights to sharpen our approach.
- B2B outreach: Initiate strategic conversations with senior decisionmakers in HR / TA and Business leadership, through structured cold outreach, LinkedIn networking, and industry research, utilizing “phygital” campaign mechanisms (social media, email, AEO/ GEO/SEO, content marketing) and analyze outcomes to refine strategies.
- Pitching & On boarding: Present our firm's specialized capabilities, negotiate commercial terms, and secure new client mandates/agreements.
- Relationship management: Act as the primary point of contact for newly acquired accounts, ensuring deep account farming and long-term client retention.
- Collateral building: Curate and share stories, case studies, and thought leadership that strengthen our brand and engage our network.
Talent Delivery & Executive Search (50% Focus):
- Hiring mandates understanding: Utilize industry knowledge and clients' role requirements to map the ideal candidate profile, considering skills and cultural nuances.
- Consultative search / headhunting: Utilize our advanced sourcing strategies, professional networks, and direct targeting to identify high-caliber candidates globally.
- Candidate evaluation & assessment: Conduct rigorous competency-based interviews to assess candidates' alignment with the client's strategic goals.
- Process management: Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including interview scheduling, feedback loops, offer negotiations, and post-placement engagement.
Requirements:
- 0 to 1 year of relevant professional experience.
- Prior experience in B2B corporate sales / client handling, and / or recruitment is a plus, but is not mandatory.
- MBA / PGDM – or any other business education qualification – highly preferable.
- Noticeable proficiency in written and spoken Business English.
- A strong appetite for business development, cold outreach, and outcome-driven environments.
- Ability to quickly understand diverse industries, business models, and complex organizational structures.
- Skilled at consultative selling and communicating value to diverse client stakeholders.
- Curiosity, lateral thinking skills, abstraction skills, with the ability to make sense of loosely defined challenges.
- Eager practitioner mindset, with the potential to add to or amend the playbook over time, while owning solutions.
Selection Process:
- Assessments and group discussion at the office
- Solutions articulation presentation
- Interview
- Direct one-on-one mentoring with immense potential to be groomed into a well-rounded business leader, in quick time.
- Global Exposure: The opportunity to interact with CXOs and senior corporate executives across international markets early in your career.
- Hybrid Compensation Structure: A stable fixed salary paired with a highly rewarding incentive model that pays out on both client acquisition milestones and successful placement revenues, topped up with a clearly articulated fast-track career progression.
- Effort Recognition: A culture that values and financially rewards consistent effort and robust operational KRAs, independent of final billing outcomes.
- Day job as a springboard to develop a ringside view of multiple sectors, industries, functions, roles and skills sets, across multiple business and operational models, across the globe.
- High visibility within an internal global network of 140+ offices in 38 countries across 5 continents and in an ever-expanding network of clients and candidates; unique opportunity to evolve as a personal brand, effortlessly.