Job Description

About Elev8 Recruitment

Elev8 Recruitment Ltd is a specialist recruitment business operating within the engineering and manufacturing sectors.

The company focuses particularly on design engineering and project engineering appointments. Elev8 Recruitment is based in Hemel Hempstead and works with clients across the United Kingdom. The business previously focused heavily on East Anglia and is now expanding its national presence.

Elev8 Recruitment is seeking a pure hunter-style Business Developer to open new client accounts, develop new territories and generate new recruitment opportunities.

This is not a traditional 360 recruitment role. The primary focus will be on business development, cold outreach, winning new clients and securing qualified job briefs.

Some candidate resourcing responsibilities may be introduced later, but the immediate priority is generating new business.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and approach prospective clients across the UK engineering and manufacturing sectors.
• Conduct high volumes of telephone-based business-development activity.
• Open new client accounts and develop new geographical or sector-based territories.
• Engage hiring managers and senior decision-makers.
• Qualify prospective clients and recruitment requirements.
• Secure detailed and workable job briefs.
• Build relationships with new prospects from the first cold contact.
• Maintain consistent follow-up activity across telephone, email and LinkedIn.
• Develop a pipeline of prospective and active clients.
• Use market-mapping and lead-generation tools to identify target organisations.
• Record business-development activity and maintain accurate CRM information.
• Work towards revenue, client-acquisition and job-generation targets.
• Assist with candidate resourcing later, depending on business requirements.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate should be:

• Hungry, ambitious and strongly motivated by financial success.
• Tenacious and comfortable working in a highly proactive sales environment.
• Confident making cold calls and dealing with rejection.
• Naturally phone-first in their approach to business development.
• Able to build a recruitment desk or target market from the ground up.
• Skilled at opening new accounts and converting cold prospects into clients.
• Confident qualifying job briefs and identifying genuine hiring requirements.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently from home.
• Comfortable working UK business hours.

Ideal Background

The strongest candidates will have experience in:

• Engineering recruitment.
• Manufacturing recruitment.
• Technical recruitment.
• Design-engineering or project-engineering recruitment.
• New-business development within a recruitment agency.
• Building a cold recruitment desk or entering a new market.

Benefits

Systems and Tools Provided

• SourceWhale for outreach campaigns.
• Lusha.
• Market Mapper for identifying markets, candidates and hiring managers.
• Ringover telephone system with call-transcription functionality.
• Leading recruitment job boards.
• LinkedIn Recruiter.
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
• Additional tools may be considered where they demonstrate a clear return on investment.