Recruitment Account Manager

Are you passionate about building strong external relationships without the focus on cold business development? YES
Do you aspire to be part of an esteemed 'Recruitment Company of the Year'? YES

Due to growth, you can join an award-winning education recruitment agency as a Recruitment Account Manager; you will be earning a base salary of £25-32k, dependent on experience plus uncapped commission with opportunity for progression (realistic OTE £32-40k).
WHO WILL YOU BE JOINING?
You will be an integral part of the recent ‘Recruitment Company of the Year’ as announced by APSCo; boasting over 200 years of recruitment experience across the business and you will receive 1-2-1 tailored training to ensure you are fully supported; you will even be invited to gain an industry recognised Recruitment Diploma to support you with your career progression and aspirations!
You can join our numerous committees which include, community and charity work, D, E & I, mental health and wellbeing and did I mention an invite to our annual, paid for, holiday abroad!?
WHAT IS YOUR ROLE?
As an MSP (Managed Service Provider) Recruitment Account Manager, you will be responsible for managing relationships with your clients (schools), coordinating and managing the 2nd tier agency supplier network, ensuring all jobs are filled within the SLA.
You will take job requirements from your clients and will source and build a pipeline of candidates yourself to work in roles such as Teaching Assistants and Teachers for MAT’s (multi-academy trust’s) who have chosen Smile Education as their recruitment partner.
You will need to be resilient and tenacious with communication skills, being able to build natural relationships and not shy to pick up the phone for actual conversations, as this is key to any success. You will be a solution focussed problem solver, able to think on your feet; being self-motivated and goal orientated is essential with the ability to work under pressure regularly and working very closely as part of a wider team, both internally and with our external partners.
This role offers hybrid working split between the office and remote, so flexibility is on offer for you.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR WORKING HOURS?
Term time – 7am – 4.30pm
School Holidays – 9am - 3.30pm
WHAT WILL YOU BE RESPONSIBLE FOR?

• Building genuine relationships with your clients and managing job requirements
• Conducting on site client/school visits
• Managing and coordinating 2nd tier recruitment agency partnerships
• Coordinating the 100% successful fulfilment of all jobs, ensuring all parties are kept up to date (2nd tier providers, internal consultant, clients)
• CRM database management – ensuring required information and documents are uploaded and visible by all required parties
• Achieve set KPI’s and targets on a weekly basis with the support of your colleagues
• Recruiting staff and using various techniques to do so, including writing adverts, sourcing using online boards, creating a strong social media presence and head hunting
• Conduct telephone, virtual and face to face interviews with candidates
• Format CV’s to be sent to clients in a professional way
• Work alongside the specialised compliance and admin team to ensure the candidates are fully compliant to work

ARE YOU IDEAL FOR THIS ROLE?

• Driver – due to the location of your clients
• Previous account managing/coordinating/relationship management is essential
• Previous recruitment/resourcing experience would be ideal
• Solution focussed problem solver
• Not phone shy
• Comfortable working in a pressurised, targeted, busy and fast paced environment
• Team player as well as being comfortable in 1-2-1 environments
• Investigative in nature, experience of asking open questions, getting people to talk about themselves
• Confident in verbal communication with all levels of people
• Professional, sociable and friendly
• Committed, self-motivated and reliable
• Excellent attention to detail
• Stable work history, be able to explain reasons for leaving previous positions

WHAT WILL SOME OF YOUR BENEFITS BE?

• Base salary of £25-32k dependent on experience
• Uncapped commission from day 1 with realistic OTE of additional £7.5k on top of basic
• A lunch break EVERYBODY takes, not a benefit, but an expectation!
• Opportunity for career progression internally with an invite to complete an industry recognised Recruitment Diploma
• Full training with support from a business which boasts over 200 years recruitment experience
• 24 days holiday rising to 29 days plus all Bank Holidays
• Your birthday off!
• Annual summer holiday for EVERYONE in the business (previous locations have included Barcelona, Ibiza and Mallorca)
• 4pm finish EVERY Friday
• Split working week between home and modern city centre office
• On site modern gym with extended lunch break to ‘freshen up’
• Chance to join our committees

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Please send your cv to (url removed) and call me on (phone number removed)
Reference - SM1LER
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