Recruitment Consultant

Recruitment Consultant

Hays Recruitment – Ipswich

We are seeking a sales-driven Recruitment Consultant to join our local Ipswich office in our established Construction & Property team. As a Recruitment Consultant, you'll be responsible for further developing a temporary Construction within a team of four Construction & Property specialists.

You will be conducting business development (sales calls) to seek out and meet with recruitment teams, directors, line managers, and other key stakeholders. As a Recruitment Consultant, you will be recruiting the best and most experienced candidates for roles across Construction, often supporting with the recruitment of Commercial Managers, Site Managers and Project Managers. This is a sales-based role where you will enjoy uncapped commission alongside your base salary.

Your new team

Are you ready to build a career where your ambition is supported and your success celebrated? We're looking for a driven and relationship-focused Recruitment Consultant to join out local team of 8 consultants. We offer a collaborative and inclusive environment ensuring you are set-up to succeed whilst being surrounded by expertise.

Whether you're returning to work, changing careers, or looking to grow in a new direction, we welcome diverse experience. As a people centric business, we're proud to be positively impacting our local people and businesses.

Your new role

The responsibilities of a Recruitment Consultant include:

• Making cold calls and sales calls to prospective clients to sell our services within Construction
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with organisations and key decision makers
• Actively engaging with face-to-face meetings with in-house recruitment professionals, directors, and line managers
• Sourcing, screening and recruiting top-tier candidates for roles
• Drafting reports, ensure compliance across all activities, and participating in internal projects
• Working to daily targets and KPIs to achieve your monetary goals and contribute to the growth and profitability of Hays

We pride ourselves in hiring the very best talent in the recruitment space and therefore you will need to meet the following criteria to apply:

• A genuine drive to work in a sales environment – our best people are motivated to work to targets and go the extra mile for clients, candidates and Hays
• Excellent communication skills and workplace professionalism
• An individual who is resilient, bold and curious
• Has a good understanding of what 360 recruitment is and is passionate about pursuing a career within recruitment

What you'll get in return

Hays is the largest specialist recruiter globally and a multi award-winning business covering 22 areas of recruitment across over 50 offices in the UK.

As a multi-award-winning employer, we believe as part of the employee and employer deal, we can give you exciting career development opportunities to support your aspirations. 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 across our business.

In addition, you will enjoy:

• Uncapped individual commission paid upon invoice every 4 weeks
• Regular performance-based incentive programmes including the opportunity to qualify for an 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 with an enviable client base of global household names
• A mature approach to working with hybrid working models and flexible working hours
• The opportunity to take your career across the world through our global mobility offering.
• Diverse range of employee support networks, wellbeing and volunteering initiatives alongside 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 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