Senior Recruitment Consultant

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Senior / Principal Recruitment Consultant - Edinburgh

Are you an experienced Recruitment Consultant looking for an opportunity to develop a long-term career in a business that is going places?

Do you have a proven track record of running a successful 360 desk? If so, then this is an excellent opportunity to own and develop a market and progress your career professionally with the backing of a global brand and experienced leadership team.

Location : Edinburgh

Salary : £25,700 to £32,000 per annum (dependent on experience + uncapped commission (OTE £45,000 - £70,000)

Hours: Mon-Fri, 40 hours per week

Hybrid: After your initial training period you can choose to take advantage of our hybrid working policy.

Your new role as a Senior Recruitment Consultant:

As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, you'll have the freedom to do things differently, supported by colleagues and a leadership team with a wealth of experience in the recruitment industry. utilizing your recruitment expertise to establish and grow your presence, your job role will include:

Candidate Engagement: Running a 360 desk in Edinburgh, you will find and engage the best talent, attracting top talent through effective candidate engagement strategies. Guiding candidates throughout the interview and offer process, ensuring a seamless experience. Whilst providing expert, specialist advice.

Client Growth: Foster lasting relationships, building and nurturing relationships with clients while actively pursuing new business opportunities. Understanding client recruitment needs and providing strategic advice to ensure the best candidate matches.

Market Expansion: Becoming an industry expert through networking and staying ahead of market trends, working with the leadership team on initiatives and projects and develop and implement effective individual business and sales plans.

Team Leadership: Provide mentorship and guidance to Trainee consultants, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture. Lead by example through exceptional, consistent fee performance, activity, and attitude

Why Choose Hays?

People are at the centre of everything we do. We don’t just place people into jobs but invest in li felong partnerships that empower you to realise your ambition. We’re backed by over 50 years of success, and a workforce of over 10,000 people across 33 countries. There might be 12,000 employees across the globe, but here, everybody is welcome, and every voice is heard.

Being so much more than just a specialist recruitment business, what really set us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding, and ability to meet your needs.

You can trust we have the expansive networks, up-to-the-minute market knowledge, and leading-edge technology to help you get where you want to go.

As a large company we have a huge opportunity to make a difference to the communities we operate in.

As a result, we are proud to say:

We partner with End Youth Homelessness UK to raise money for their charity

We also became carbon neutral in 2021 are currently on the path to net zero carbon emissions.

Hays was one of the first 20 companies nationwide to receive the National Equality Standard and we continue to promote an environment where all our employees can be their full self at work.

#HaysHelps We're committed to making a positive impact on the communities we live and work in. As part of this, we have a volunteering scheme, #HaysHelps, which gives employees two days of paid leave per calendar year to volunteer.

Your new office

The Edinburgh team are one of the highest performing teams in the UK. Situated centrally, the office has recently been designed with an agile feel to complement our Hybrid working policy. In the last 12 months, the office have delivered multiple records across numerous industries they cover. The high performing team consists of 30+ consultants which are all committed to working hard and doing the right thing. They work closely with local communities, in recent months they have worked on employability projects with local charities, donated equipment to schools, carried out employment workshops to school leavers, Ukrainian Refugees and local colleges, to name a few.

Outside of the excellent results they produce, the team also do a lot outside of work, from BBQ’s to Bake Off’s, from Quizzes to inter-team competitions. They run an array of incentives on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis, rewarding excellent results and contribution across the team.

As a Hays consultant, you will benefit from:

The most comprehensive training programme in the industry

· Fast track promotions, progress your career up to Director level within 8 years!

The backing of a Global Company, established for over 50 years

Significant growth potential of salary after year 1

Best Technology in the Industry including a 'salesforce' CRM

Opportunity for global relocation – Dubai, Australia, New York!

Referral bonuses of up to £2000 per individual

Social & Incentives

Black Tie Summer Ball and Christmas Parties

Premiership / Champions League tickets through our partnership with Man City FC

Opportunity to win a 5* luxury trip with top performing colleagues - Hays Elite i.e Croatia, South Africa, Italy

The opportunity for recognition at local, regional and national awards

Incentives and rewards - celebration dinners / Team lunches

Parents@hays support network

Disability confident employer with established disability and long term ill health employee network (REACH)

Hays Pride our LGBTQ+ network

Strong environmental and social purpose

Time off

Buy and sell holiday – up to 5 extra days per year!

23 days per calendar year (plus bank holidays) annual entitlement increases with length of service

Health & Wellbeing

Gym discounts

Access to virtual doctor unlimited times per year

Cycle to work scheme

Employee loans to buy Tech/Rail/Tram travel

Internal Learning & Career Zone for self development