Sellick Partnership
Business Manager
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We are excited to be recruiting for a Business Manager to join our specialist recruitment team in our Derby office!
At Sellick Partnership, we're incredibly proud of our journey and the reputation we've built over more than 20 years in the recruitment industry. Our experience and longevity in the market has shaped who we are today, but we're always looking forward. We continuously invest in our people, technology and training to stay ahead in a fast-moving market - and to ensure we keep attracting the very best talent.
Our work ethic sets us apart: we push ourselves to be the best, not just for our clients and candidates, but for each other. We've built a high-performance culture where hard work is genuinely recognised, success is celebrated, and ambition is matched with real opportunities to progress.
We offer a competitive, uncapped commission structure with clear and transparent monthly, quarterly, and annual targets to work towards. To put it simply: the harder you work and the more effort you put in, the more money you will earn.
Purpose of the role
As a Business Manager you will have a clear and proven track record of delivering highly successful profitable results for yourself and the business. Your role in the business will be to deliver a constantly strong profit line whilst supporting the business to successfully bid and implement new tenders and business opportunities. You will continually deliver on key commercial targets and lead on business development activity within your team.
Roles and responsibilities
Recruiting and billing
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- Maintain and develop a ‘patch’, interviewing candidates, marketing clients, visiting clients, and placing jobs to achieve your KPIs and targets.
- Proactively identify and develop new business opportunities within your market, extending this to new markets that we could become established in.
- Maintain and consistently develop your market presence – driving growth year on year.
- Support the preparation for and attend external events where required to network with new and existing clients and candidates on behalf of the business.
- Identify new events and networking opportunities that may be of benefit.
Business planning and finance
- Demonstrate exemplary technical recruitment skills covering all aspects of a 360 recruitment role including: all client and candidate activity, visits, pitching for tenders and written sales.
- Assist the Senior Manager and Director, with regards to monitoring financial performance, forecasting and measuring actuals vs budgets for your own desk.
- Actively contribute to daily, weekly, monthly internal sales and team meetings.
- Take a lead in supporting the business with key frameworks and PSLs and tenders. Support the tendering process from the initial submission of the bid right through to its award within your business unit. Ensure that they are fully embedded and utilised across the division. Monitor and report on the progress and success of these frameworks/PSLs/tenders on an ongoing basis.
- Undertake competitor analysis and track market share on behalf of the team to understand current market position and seek to maximise this.
- Take responsibility for your personal brand and social media profile, including writing market or recruitment specific content for the Sellick Partnership website and develop your LinkedIn profile.
- Promote cross-selling activity across multi-functional teams to generate companywide opportunities.
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Benefits that come with the role will include:
- Uncapped commission structure, with no minimum threshold.
- Hybrid and flexible working - a structured number of days in the office and at home.
- Tailored mentoring and coaching from our experienced leadership team, with access to our unrivalled internal training programme, to help you reach your full potential.
- Quarterly reward scheme for exceptional performance, and prizes for smaller wins from our Wheel of Success.
- 30 days holiday as standard (plus 8 bank holidays) plus up to 5 'length of service' additional days.
- Extra 2 days leave for a marriage or civil partnership in the year the ceremony takes place.
- A birthday lie-in or early finish.
- Early finishes every Friday and on bank holiday weekends.
- Free food/drink in all offices (fresh fruit, cereal, breakfast, snack bars and more).
- Medicash company health plan including Extras (e.g. gym, holiday, and shopping discounts).
- Three 5* staff events a year including our annual teambuilding trip away!
- Regular team socials.
- Access to on-site, trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- Interest-free loans available.
- Bike 2 Work scheme.
- Paid time off for charitable commitments.
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