Senior Recruitment Consultant/ Manager (Marketing)

Your new team

Hays Marketing are an investment specialist recruiter with over 55 consultants nationally
Within Hays Marketing is the London Public Sector Marketing team, based in Ebury Gate, Victoria.
This is a well-established team of five specialist consultants ranging from Recruitment Consultant to Business Director level.

Due to consistent fee growth and numerous client wins, the team are looking to recruit an experience recruiter to specialise in recruiting for Marketing and Communication professionals into public sector organisations.
This is an exciting opportunity whereby you will interact and deliver recruitment services to existing clients, but you will also be supported and trained to identify new clients, through targeted and strategic business development.

The benefit of working within this well-established team is you will be collaborating with high performing individuals, who are truly specialists in their sector and industry and have an impeccable reputation. This presents a wonderful environment for the right individual to use their expertise, initiative and drive to develop a successful business in procurement recruitment.

Your New Role
As a specialist recruiter into Marketing within the public sector, you will become a subject matter expert in Marketing and the various components that make up the discipline, including Marketing, Communications, Events and stakeholder engagement.

You will receive a wealth of training in these areas and benefit from the support of highly experienced managers in your office as well as specialist technical support from our National Specialism Director, and your Director who will share her 15+ years' experience across the specialism. An ability to learn quickly will be important as you will be expected to recruit successfully in these areas from Marketing Assistants to Director of Communications.

Your client base will vary, and you will partner with Charity and Not for Profit organisations, Central & Local Government Departments and Agencies, NHS and Universities.
You will benefit from existing client relationships, but the expectation is that you will also be very pro-active and strategic in your business development activity.

Business Development is key to being successful in this position and a large proportion of your time will be spent reaching out to sell our recruitment services to new clients, both in meetings and on the telephone.

Your candidates are also of utmost importance. In a skill short market, you must demonstrate innovative ways of attracting the best Procurement talent and providing an outstanding service in introducing them to suitable employers, managing the candidate experience from initial contact through to appointment and aftercare. In summary your role will be an equal split of candidate engagement and client engagement activity.

What you'll need to succeed
Above all, you should have a strong work ethic where you are motivated and enthusiastic about recruitment. Ideally, we are looking for an individual with previous recruitment experience In this role you will be prepared to work hard, strive to achieve targets, and have an interest and ability to thrive in a corporate environment.

You will be naturally inquisitive to help you build your market knowledge and build strong business relationships. You will be ambitious, driven to progress your career quickly and have strong sales skills with the ability to consult and advise both clients and candidates. To do all of this you will need excellent interpersonal skills with the passion to want to achieve results.

You'll be ambitious with passion, credibility, and drive. Your unbeatable interpersonal skills will enable you to build strong relationships with your candidates and clients, which will be vital to your own success and the success of the business.

What you'll get in return
At Hays, we know that recruitment can be demanding and competitive. However, as the market leader, Hays offers you the best training in the industry to support you in your development from Recruitment Consultant into a recruiting expert and beyond. You will receive classroom training and on-the-job coaching from highly knowledgeable consultants which will enable you to develop a lasting and successful career.

We believe in recognising success, so not only do we promote from within, but you will be rewarded with uncapped commission and unrivalled incentives and benefits.

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