Senior Recruitment Consultant

Build a Construction Management desk with active Tier 1 relationships from day one and the opportunity to turn it into your own division.

Building a new desk usually means starting with a phone, a database and a list of clients somebody tells you are “warm”. This one is rather different.

They are active clients with live ongoing vacancies shared with the existing team, and you'll have access to those relationships from day one with the mandate to develop the Construction Management offering alongside it.

The desk doesn't exist yet. The opportunity does.

This emerging independent recruitment brand is based in Central London and was established more than three years ago by an owner with extensive experience recruiting across the M&E sector.

Today, the business has established itself across MEP and Data Centres , developing a strong client base that includes relationships with some of the UK's leading main contractors.

The next step is a natural one.

Those clients don't only recruit MEP professionals. They also hire the Production and Commercial people responsible for delivering their projects.

Rather than leaving that part of the relationship untouched, the business wants an experienced Construction recruiter to build the capability properly.

You'll have the agility of a small independent business but with more infrastructure behind you than its size might suggest.

The company is backed by a larger recruitment group and benefits from its shared back-office functions, leaving the consultants to concentrate on recruitment and developing their markets.

An experienced permanent Construction recruiter who already understands the main-contractor market and has recruited Production and Commercial management professionals.

Ideally, you're already billing £200,000+ annually and can demonstrate that you've built genuine client relationships rather than simply serviced vacancies generated elsewhere.

You may be doing well where you are but have reached the point where another year of simply increasing your personal billings isn't particularly exciting.

You want something you can put your name on.

You don't need to be a manager today. You do need to have the ambition and commercial ability to build a successful desk first and, ultimately, a team around it.

This probably isn't the right move for somebody who wants a mature desk handed to them.

It is for somebody who knows they can build one but would rather do it with genuine client access already behind them.

You'll be able to approach active relationships including; Wates, McLaren, Multiplex and Skanska from day one , introducing Construction Management recruitment alongside the MEP service they already receive.

From there, you have considerable freedom to develop the market in your own way.

There are no call-time or dial KPIs . The owner remains a hands-on biller personally and provides support without trying to dictate how an experienced recruiter should run their desk.

The immediate objective is to establish Construction Management as a profitable specialism.

Bill £200,000 annually and there is a defined route to Principal Consultant .

Build the market beyond yourself and you'll have the opportunity to recruit and develop your own team, with a realistic route over the following 2 3 years to Associate Director , leading the Construction Management division.