Divisional Manager - Data Centres Built Environment

Your brief is to build the division to ten.

This isn't an opportunity to arrive with a business plan and spend the next six months proving there's a market. The Data Centre desk already exists. Two permanent consultants are already billing around £12,000 per month each , established PSL relationships are producing live vacancies across the UK and Europe, and the business already recruits for developers, main contractors and specialist MEP contractors delivering Data Centre projects.

What's missing is the person to lead it.

The ambition is to grow the existing team into a ten-person specialist division over the next 2 3 years , expand its reach internationally and create a business capable of generating a clear route to Directorship, and potentially equity, for the person who builds it.

An established Built Environment recruitment business operating from offices in Central London, with an existing reputation and client base across specialist construction and engineering markets.

Its Data Centre practice focuses specifically on the physical infrastructure required to design, build, commission and operate mission-critical facilities . This is not IT recruitment.

The team recruits across the construction and engineering disciplines behind Data Centres including design, MEP & Building Services, electrical infrastructure, mechanical and specialist cooling, controls/BMS, commissioning and construction delivery .

Current appointments include roles such as:

The client base spans Data Centre developers, main contractors and specialist MEP contractors , with established PSL positions and live permanent vacancies across both the UK and Europe.

Ideally, an experienced Data Centre recruitment manager who already understands the Mission Critical market and can see the scale of the opportunity.

Data Centre experience isn't essential. A strong recruitment leader from MEP, Building Services, Construction, Engineering or another Mission Critical environment could bring highly transferable market knowledge.

Someone who has already managed or mentored recruiters and enjoys developing people, but isn't looking to stop recruiting themselves.

You'll remain a hands-on biller , leading from the front while developing the consultants around you.

You need to be commercially ambitious. The brief isn't to maintain a two-person desk. It's to turn an established foothold into a significant specialist division.

This particularly suits someone who has already demonstrated they can lead and bill, but wants more ownership over what they're building and wants the financial and career upside to grow with it.

From day one, you'll become the clear leader of the existing two-person Data Centre team.

Both consultants focus on permanent recruitment and currently bill approximately £12,000 per month each . You'll inherit active UK and European client relationships, established PSL positions and live requirements across developers, main contractors and MEP contractors.

Your first job is to improve and grow what's already there.

You'll continue developing your own client relationships and personal billings while coaching the existing consultants, increasing productivity, deepening client penetration and identifying where the division should expand next.

Then you'll build.

The plan is to grow the practice from two consultants to approximately ten over the next 2 3 years , adding capability and market coverage as the division develops.

There is also scope to take the business geographically beyond its existing UK and European footprint, including developing a US Data Centre recruitment offering .

And there is another obvious opportunity sitting within the existing model.

Today, the Data Centre team is 100% permanent . Despite recruiting for clients delivering major construction and engineering projects, there is currently no freelance/contract offering .

For a commercially minded leader who understands that market, that represents another significant avenue for growth.