Recruitment Consultant - Retail And Hospitality.
Central London

An opportunity has come up in our company for a Recruitment Consultant / Account Manager to join our existing team in our Central London office, working across the Retail & Hospitality Sectors. With a salary range of £20,000 - £30,000 with a realistic OTE of £45,000 - £60,000 plus the opportunity to develop to become a member of the senior management team within the next 2 years. There will be a golden hello payment made of £2,000 to support individuals during the initial 3 month period in the role where you will be building up your pipeline activity.

The Company:

Detail2Group is a market leading recruitment consultancy that operates across the Retail & Hospitality Sectors via our 2 specialist divisions Detail2Retail and Detail2Leisure. We work in partnership with a diverse range of companies within these sectors at store management, area management and head office levels.

Job Role - Recruitment Consultant - Retail and Hospitality:

As a Recruitment Consultant you will:

• Understand that building effective relationships will be at the heart of your success.
• Have the gravitas to influence to senior management.
• Work in a proactive manner to understand client instructions and source appropriate candidates to match the brief from a variety of sources.
• Source new business through utilising referrals, networking and direct approaches to companies.
• Understand the benefits of a quality over quantity approach.
• Be creative and industrious in your approach to placing candidates for difficult to place vacancies.
• Effectively market candidates by virtue of their CV and ensure a close match with candidates aspirations and client requirements.
• To coach and mentor candidates through the client recruitment process.
• Be able to work to and achieve financial targets and other KPIs.

Key Attributes - Recruitment Consultant - Retail and Hospitality:

• You will need to be well organised with a common sense approach to business yet able to think creatively to find solutions and overcome obstacles.
• Natural and articulate communicator who can build relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Tenacious and sales driven mindset with the ability to react quickly to changing requirements.
• Quick learner who can absorb information quickly and who takes a pro-active lead in developing their own skill set through learning from others.
• A commercial approach to all aspects of your work.
• Be able to work at pace and keep "a lot of plates spinning" simultaneously .
• Understand that recruitment falls within the "sales" category rather than "HR".
• Excellent communication skills verbally and in writing.

You will initially be working a warm desk whilst at the same time be expected to undertake pro-active business development in order to develop new relationships and revenue streams.