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Are you an experienced recruitment manager or a successful senior team leader ready to take the next step in your career?
Blackedge Consulting is looking for a commercially driven Operations Manager to lead, develop and grow our specialist team while continuing to build and bill their own desk. We provide highly skilled technical talent for controlled and regulated environments across data centres, semiconductors, batteries, specialty chemicals, power and energy. You'll lead from the front coaching consultants, driving team performance, developing new business and building lasting relationships with key clients. We're looking for a proven biller with leadership experience, strong commercial instincts and the ambition to take greater ownership of a growing specialist business.
Working at STR
STR Group is an international workforce and project solutions consultancy specialising in high-tech facilities, life sciences, engineering and technology, marine and automation. Since our inception in 2000, we have continued to evolve alongside our clients and the STEM industries we support. Our approach begins with understanding what a client is trying to achieve. We diagnose the challenge, evaluate the available options and design a solution aligned with the client's commercial and operational objectives.
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What are we looking for?
- Proven success in permanent or contract recruitment, with a strong personal billing record
- Experience managing a team or senior team leadership experience with the ambition to step into an Operations Manager role
- The ability to lead from the front while developing and billing your own desk
- Experience coaching consultants, managing performance and supporting individual development plans
- Strong commercial awareness, including revenue forecasting, target setting and identifying growth opportunities
- A track record of winning new business and developing lasting client relationships
- A confident, accountable and proactive leadership style
- The ambition to grow a specialist team and contribute to the wider success of Blackedge Consulting
What are we offering you?
- Uncapped commission of up to 30%
- Flexible and hybrid working following completion of the Training Academy, subject to maintaining performance targets
- A 3pm finish every Friday
- Modern, state-of-the-art offices with breakout areas
- Daily breakfast provided
- Employee of the Month and Employee of the Quarter awards
- Quarterly Directors Lunches in Michelin recommended restaurants
- An active Equality, Diversity and Inclusion board
- Annual, all-expenses-paid incentive trips for top performers
- Annual Awards, Summer Party and Christmas Party
- Long-service anniversary rewards, including additional holiday, bonuses, vouchers, champagne and gifts, depending on length of service
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing by one day for each completed year of service and capped at 28 days
- The option to purchase up to five additional days of annual leave
- Healthcare cash plan and optional private healthcare from day one
- Company pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Your birthday off
- Drinks fridge
- Free on-site parking
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme through Octopus Electric Vehicles
- Tech salary-sacrifice scheme through Currys
- Employee Referral Programme
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This is an opportunity to take greater ownership of a growing specialist recruitment business while continuing to develop your own successful desk. If you're an established recruitment manager or a high-performing senior team leader ready for the next step we'd like to hear from you.
STR Group is committed to offering applicants with disabilities an interview where they meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Apply today to join Blackedge Consulting as our Operations Manager
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