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Building Surveying Recruiter | £270k+ Perm Biller

Property - Building SurveyingBillingPerm Contingency

Location

Hertfordshire / Central London / City.

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The Profile

This is a highly experienced property recruiter with deep specialism knowledge across Building Surveying and Project Management appointments made into independent and multidisciplinary consultancies.

The strongest evidence of capability comes from this Recruiter's time with a leading indpendent specialist property recruitment business. After winning Top Permanent Biller with more than £160k, annual production subsequently exceeded £200k, promotion to Principal followed a £70k quarter, and later annual billings reached more than £270k.

The best individual month produced approximately £100k in permanent fees.

What followed was a few years working as an independent Recruiter and while £600K was generated over a 5-6 year period and proved to be commercially viable, the experience ultimately reinforced the value of operating with a team, within a properly resourced recruitment platform without the need to manage back office and finance functions.

Working independently meant carrying the financial exposure of late or sometimes non-paying clients and disputes during a financially difficult period in UK and global business. This combined with the isolation led this experienced Recruiter to cautiously join a firm where he could work with a strong degree of autonomy - the independent business as fully closed with no ongoing conflict or competing interest remaining.

Succeessfully returning to a team environment working for a high profile industry Director this Recruiter rapidly set about building an entirely new Building Surveying Desk (Temp and Perm) with a longer-term objective of The candidate subsequently returned to agency recruitment and is currently operating across Building Surveying with both permanent and temporary exposure. The longer-term objective, was to build a team under the mentorship of this Director but this has been cut short by the company placing financial restrictions, freezing headacount and even terminataing staff contracts - including the Director.

This leaves a predominantly permanent recruite, with a strong London-focused network across Building Surveying consultancies and professionals looking for a new home unexpectedly.

The proposition is therefore relatively straightforward: hire a recruiter who has already demonstrated £200k–£270k+ production back into an environment with sufficient client access, infrastructure and market opportunity, and expect results similar or better than past performance. t

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Strengths

  • 10+ years' specialist property recruitment experience
  • Deep expertise in Building Surveying & Project Management
  • Strong London consultancy network
  • Previous annual billings exceeding £270k
  • Consistent £200k+ agency billing performance
  • Best individual month of approximately £100k
  • Former Top Permanent Biller
  • Progressed to Principal Consultant level
  • Senior recruitment experience through to Director / Partner level
  • Appointments up to approximately £100k salary
  • Strong permanent contingency recruitment expertise
  • Proven ability to work independently and remain motivated
  • Established client and candidate relationships
  • Extensive professional network
  • Clear personal ambition to return to £300k+ annual production

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Ideal Seat

The priority is an established recruitment business with a credible reputation within Property and the Built Environment, providing enough infrastructure and market access to allow a proven recruiter to concentrate on producing at a high level.

The ideal platform would include:

  • Existing PSL/client agreements with relevant consultancies
  • A broad enough client base to avoid restrictive individual client-ownership issues
  • Established Building Surveying / Property market credibility
  • Proper LinkedIn and recruitment technology
  • Marketing and advertising support
  • Investment in networking and industry events
  • Good operational and financial infrastructure
  • Strong colleagues and leadership
  • Sufficient autonomy to develop personal client relationships and desk performance

The candidate is not currently seeking a management title. The immediate objective is to personally bill at a high level again.

Longer term, there would be interest in developing or managing a team once personal production and the desk justify it.

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Expectations

Seeking a Prinicpal level Consultant role including:

  • £45,000 basic + commission + bonus
  • Based in Hertfordshire or London Central / City.
  • Ideally 4 days office / 1 day WFH.

The quality of the platform is particularly important to this candidate along with savvy leadership that allow Recruiters a good amount of headroom.

The right opportunity should provide the brand, client access, tools, investment and infrastructure that allow an experienced specialist recruiter to concentrate on billing.

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