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Director at Great Jobs UK/15k+ followers & connections/recruiting expert

One of our recruitment clients is looking for a 360 contract recruiter to join their expanding team.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Talent Partner (360), you will be responsible for creating an exceptional candidate and customer experience within your community. You will be the face of the company towards candidates and customers within your specific market. Your mission will be to win business, build relationships, network, manage client relationships, and recruit potential candidates within your market.

Company facing responsibilities

1. Developing long-term relationships and partnerships with clients by building an understanding of their structure, culture, hiring needs, and preferences.
2. Understanding client requirements at both a strategic and tactical level to offer the best business solutions.
3. Leveraging solutions across all areas of talent management, having responsibility for pitching, winning business, negotiating new contracts, and developing custom proposals to best serve clients’ needs.
4. Building strong commercial and long-term relationships with clients.
5. Working collaboratively with other business areas (marketing/delivery) to leverage opportunity and develop joined-up propositions.
6. Achieving personal KPIs and sales targets.
7. Training new members of the team.
8. Being the team’s role model, leading by example and demonstrating what success in recruitment looks like.

Candidate facing responsibilities

1. Inheriting a warm desk and being responsible for nurturing and developing relationships with our talent community.
2. Running search campaigns both online, on the phone, and using creativity to identify candidates within the market.
3. (Creative) Headhunting and market mapping to establish yourself as the “go-to” talent scout in your market.
4. Keeping a finger on the pulse of Mergers, Acquisitions, and anything that might lead to movement within the market, headhunting, and reaching out to candidates to propose new opportunities.
5. Managing contact with candidates; i.e., messaging, initial prescreens, through to offer negotiation and start date follow-up.
6. Providing interview coaching, general career advice, and proposing other company solutions such as their Mentoring Academy to their talent pool.
7. Converting target cold candidates to warm candidates within their community.
8. Using their customized CRM to manage, update, record, and document all conversations, candidate records, and actions.
9. Upholding the company’s values and service.
10. Driving leads through CV profiling, reference checking, candidate interviewing, and questioning.
11. CV preparation and own administration.
12. Any other relevant ad-hoc duties as required by the manager of this team and business.

Success – how is the role measured?

1. Number of placements.
2. New business/development of existing accounts.
3. Revenue generated in comparison to targets.
4. Ratios (CVs to interviews, interviews to placements, etc.).
5. Time to fill.
6. Leads generated.

Why Join them?

1. Flexibility - They believe in playing to everyone’s strengths and shaping the role around your key skills.
2. Minimal admin - They want as much of your time as possible to be focused on recruiting and relationship building and have cut away almost all of the admin side of the job.
3. A chance to really help build something and have an impact on the future of their business.
4. A huge opportunity to fast track your career as this team and company grows.

Their values

FORWARD THINKING

STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE

COLLABORATION

HONESTY

You need to be great at working with people, building relationships, and problem-solving. If you want to move your relationships from just “well-known recruiter” to a trusted talent adviser and business partner, this is the role for you.

Must have’s

1. Experience working within an agency environment.
2. Experience recruiting in a contract market.
3. Experience covering EU, UK, or USA markets.
4. Track record of overachieving targets.
5. Independent, works with urgency, and is a sponge.
6. Resilient, creative, curious, process-driven, and able to build relationships.
7. Honest, upfront, and direct communication style.
8. Strong search skills: using a LinkedIn recruiter, advanced Boolean search.

For more information contact Nick on nick@greatjobsuk.com.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Sales and Administrative

Industries

Staffing and Recruiting