Senior Recruitment Consultant

Join our Sales talent pipeline today!

Here at Hays, we are excited to be looking for the very best talent to join us in 2025 across Yorkshire and North East. We are looking to connect with individuals about future recruitment consultant roles, so if you're looking for your next move, and have experience in sales, we'd love to hear from you!

Where are our opportunities?

• Offices: We have offices based across Yorkshire and North East, with our largest offices being in Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle.
• Hours: Mon-Fri, 40 hours per week
• Hybrid: After your initial onboarding period you can choose to take advantage of our hybrid working policy.

Your new role as a Recruitment Consultant:

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.

Candidate Engagement: 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.

Skilful Negotiation: Create win-win situations for clients and candidates, negotiating terms and fees to create mutually beneficial partnerships.

Target Achievement: Meet and exceed KPIs with zeal and efficiency. Collaborating within a high-performing team, motivating each other to achieve outstanding results.

Leadership Partner Expertise: Becoming an industry expert through networking and staying ahead of market trends.

About you to make it in this role:

• You MUST have a sales background
• Sales-driven and relationship-focused
• Results-focused
• Possess an ambitious drive to succeed.
• Resilient, persistent, and determined.
• Passionate about people, outgoing, and confident.
• Ambitious, target-driven, and financially motivated.
• A proactive and results-driven approach

Why Choose Hays?

People are at the centre of everything we do. We don't just place people into jobs but invest in lifelong 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.

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.

Award winners of:

• Top 100 undergraduate employers by Job Crowd, NUE awards and Rate My Placement
• Glassdoor Best Places to Interview
• Community Impact of the Year Award

As a Hays consultant, you will benefit from:

• Commission scheme structure (uncapped paid x13 times a year, increases with promotions)
• Built on rewarding success and the opportunity to influence your earning potential
• Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development
• Opportunity to take your career globally
• Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally and nationally
• Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits
• Community of internal support networks.
• Paid volunteering days for all employees under our Working for Your Tomorrow Initiative.

Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you're thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let's work together to create it!

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture of opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career.

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.