Recruitment & Placement Consultant

Aspire Recruitment have a new opportunity for a Recruitment and Placement Consultant to join our established team. We are seeking to grow Aspire (current turnover circa £5m) and the successful candidate must have experience and a track record in business development and winning new employer accounts. The role will deliver an effective 360 recruitment service to customers across Manchester, ensuring high levels of quality and helping to establish Aspire Recruitment as the staffing solution provider of choice. Aspire Recruitment is a recruitment agency with a difference, we are part of the Growth Company (GC), a Social Enterprise whose core purpose is to enable growth, create jobs, and improve lives by driving investment, skills, employment, and enterprise for the benefit of all. Aspires social and ethical stance means that we are not driven by profit, instead, we are committed to matching people and businesses and re-investing the profits we do make into our service offer. We support employers to attract, recruit and retain great candidates from diverse backgrounds; helping all sections of society to move into work. Key Responsibilities: * Use sales, business development, marketing techniques and networking to attract new business opportunities. * Promote Aspires services to employers to establish a solid employer base. * Secure employer visits to generate vacancy opportunities. * Provide a consultative service to employers and candidates and refer to relevant services within the group where appropriate to maximise income. * Maximise candidate attraction via various resources to include advertising vacancies, liaising with internal and external partners. * Develop and maintain effective relationships with key partners and agencies in order to generate a flow of appropriate candidates and generate new business. * To maximise commercial exposure through the effective use of social media and any other technology-based platforms available to us. * Deliver exceptional customer service to employers. About you: * Experience in sales and business development is essential. * Over 12 month’s sales experience in any capacity. * A proven ability of winning new business in a commercial environment. * Proven track record of developing and maintaining relationships with customers. * Knowledge of employment legislation as applied to recruitment agencies (eligibility to work, AWR, IR35 etc.). * Experience of quality standards and systems relating to the recruitment industry. * Motivated and passionate with the drive to succeed. Requirements: * Proven success in new business development. * Excellent presentation skills (and use of software to deliver this). * Thorough understanding of both temporary and permanent recruitment processes. * To be able to work within a fast paced, target driven environment. * Able to assimilate and analyse information quickly and accurately and to work to deadlines. * Flexible approach to work including willingness to travel and work occasional unsociable hours, including weekends. * Well-developed IT skills, including an understanding of computerised management information systems, spreadsheets, diary management and email. * Ability to use digital channels to promote the service. This includes the usage of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and other relevant social media channels. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this. If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community. As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team. We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage. GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible. All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy