Who are we?
We are New Directions, a group of companies that provide UK wide services (including recruitment, training, care provision and other support services) within education, social care, domiciliary care and the pharmaceutical sector, from a network of offices across the UK.
Summary of Role:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Recruitment Consultant to join our Education department based in Leeds.
To provide a quality educational staff supply service to all schools and education supply workers in your allotted area of responsibility, in a manner than enhances the reputation of the company and leads to business growth from satisfied customers.
What we offer:
Fantastic employee benefits including:
· A flexible working environment, with the opportunity for hybrid working
· Health Cashback scheme
· Life Assurance of 3 x salary
· Pension Salary Sacrifice Scheme
· A generous annual leave entitlement of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 27 days holiday after two years’ service)
· Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave through salary sacrifice
· A day off for your birthday
· Opportunity to join our 3% interest Christmas savings scheme
· Employee referral scheme; you can earn between £250 and £500 for each successful referral into the business
· Regular social, health and well-being events
Main Responsibilities:
- Recruiting candidates for a range of education supply roles for schools in your assigned area
- Promoting candidates to schools to match the best talent to the work available
- Taking bookings for day to day and long term supply work working proactively to fill them with your best candidates
- Maintaining relationships with existing clients through effective account management to generate ongoing and long term business
- Developing new business sales through regular calls and visits to non-using and lapsed clients selling in your services and candidates
- Using the recruitment CRM to execute all client and candidate actions
- Maintaining relevant intelligence on your clients and candidates to support the branch strategy
- Supporting your schools with community and fundraising activities
- Working to and exceeding key performance indicators and targets set by the Branch Manager
- Partnering with Recruitment Consultants across different departments to cross and up-sell services and products
Ideal Candidate
- Has previous experience of working in agency recruitment or business development/sales
- Is able to source, recruit and retain staff for a range of roles
- Knowledgeable of recruitment, vetting, and compliance procedures or possesses a willingness to learn and develop
- Able to effectively negotiate and close sales working to set targets and KPIs
- Demonstrates commercial awareness through an understanding of gross profit and margin control
- Comfortable conversing with lapsed and non-using clients to develop new business
- Has excellent customer service skills to deliver a warm and efficient service to existing clients
- Offers a personable and calm approach to building effective working relationships with candidates
- Remains calm and proactive when working under pressure to resolve challenging situations
- Holds a full UK driving license
Job Types: Permanent, Full-time
Pay: £28,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home
Experience:
- education recruitment: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
