Verelogic Recruitment
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly driven, sales-focused Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team, with a strong emphasis on new business development. This role is built for a natural salesperson, someone who thrives on winning new clients, building a pipeline, and converting opportunities into long-term accounts. Candidate delivery is part of the role, but your primary focus will be growing revenue through proactive sales activity.
The ideal candidate will have a strong sales or business development background, ideally within recruitment, and an interest in developing expertise within the engineering or finance markets.
Key Responsibilities
New Business Development
- Proactively identify, target, and win new client accounts within engineering and finance sectors
- Build a strong, sustainable pipeline of prospective clients
- Negotiate terms of business and commercial agreements with new clients
- Track and report on sales activity, pipeline progress, and conversion rates against targets
Account Growth & Client Relationships
- Convert new client wins into long-term, repeat-business accounts
- Identify opportunities to cross-sell and upsell additional recruitment services
- Build trusted relationships with key decision-makers and hiring managers
- Provide market insights, salary benchmarking, and hiring advice to win client confidence
Recruitment Delivery
- Manage the recruitment process for your own clients from brief to placement
- Source and engage candidates to fulfil client requirements
- Coordinate interviews and lead offer negotiations to successful close
- Work closely with resourcers/support staff to ensure roles are filled efficiently
Required Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven track record in a sales, business development, or new client acquisition role
- Demonstrable success meeting or exceeding sales targets and KPIs
- Excellent negotiation, influencing, and closing skills
- Confident, persuasive communicator, comfortable with high-volume outbound activity
- Resilient, with the ability to handle rejection and stay motivated
Desirable
- Experience in a 360 recruitment consultant role, ideally in engineering or finance
- Existing network of client contacts within target sectors
- Experience using CRM systems to manage pipeline and sales activity
Personal Attributes
- Highly competitive and target-driven
- Confident, persistent, and comfortable picking up the phone
- Commercially sharp with a hunter mentality for new business
- Self-motivated with strong personal accountability for results
What We Offer
- Competitive base salary with an uncapped, sales-weighted commission structure
- Accelerated career progression for top sales performers
- Ongoing sales and negotiation training
- Fast-paced, high-performing, target-driven team culture
- Flexible working options (if applicable)
How to Apply
Please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your sales track record and interest in joining Verelogic Recruitment.
To apply for this job please visit www.reed.co.uk.
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