Recruitment Manager

Our Client, an educational publisher is looking for a Recruitment manager to provide strategic direction and improve commercial awareness within their London office.

Reporting to the Recruitment Director the successful candidate will work in partnership with clients and the internal team to create high quality value-added recruitment solutions to help the company achieve their commercial goals. This role will need a candidate who can strategise and lead the team with a dedicated and ambitious mind-set.

• Improve and develop the teams market knowledge
• Maintain regular updates of work-in-progress and work in the pipeline for management information purposes.
• Work with the Recruitment Director to review working practices and process in order to identify opportunities for improving service quality and delivery.
• Identify the goals of any project and work steadily towards them against a set deadline
• Provide sales team with Business Development leads as appropriate.
• Work closely with clients to identify and qualify their needs, thereafter managing the relationship in a way that delivers successful outcomes and incremental business.
• Negotiate the commercial terms for the planned work.
• Develop mutually acceptable delivery time lines for assignments; discuss challenges associated with assignment.
• Provide thorough written recommendations of candidates to assist clients with their interview and decision-making processes.
• Management of clients through recruitment process
• If a vacancy is not filled first time around, conduct a review with the client and team to ascertain the reason why the recruitment process was unsuccessful, and if appropriate agree the commercial terms to restart the process.

The successful candidate will preferably have a background in agency recruitment working on a volume perm desk. Strong leadership skills are essential for this role. A Strong and credible sales or project management background will also be considered.

This is an ongoing role with an immediate start candidates on notice need not apply.

Pay rate will be dependant on experience.