Carrot Recruitment
Recruitment Consultant
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Recruitment Consultant
Recruitment Consultant – Healthcare Communications
Are you a high-performing consultant looking for your next career step in a high-growth sector? Do you want to work in a culture of support, success, and celebration? Are you based in or near Manchester?
About Carrot Recruitment
Carrot Recruitment (part of Compass Recruitment Solutions) is a specialist Life Sciences recruitment consultancy, supporting Pharma, Biotech, MedTech and Consultancy organisations across the UK, Europe, and North America. Established in 2006, we’ve partnered with over 1,200 organisations on 10,000+ vacancies, helping over 4,000 candidates secure new roles across 11 countries.
Our culture is built on:
- Genuine partnership
- Technical knowledge
- An open, transparent approach—both with clients and candidates, and within our teams
We give consultants real ownership of their desks from day one, emphasising quality over quantity with strong support from experienced colleagues as you develop your specialism.
The Opportunity – Recruitment Consultant (Healthcare Communications)
Carrot’s Healthcare Communications desk covers four closely related disciplines:
- Medical Communications
- Medical Education
- Healthcare Advertising
- Healthcare PR
We collaborate with specialist agencies and consultancies whose clients are pharmaceutical companies. With vacancies growing, the team is seeking a Recruitment Consultant to focus on junior-to-mid-level candidate pipelines, allowing senior colleagues to concentrate on senior roles, business development, and new geographies.
This is a candidate-led role on a warm desk with established client relationships. Ideal for someone who enjoys:
- Building strong candidate networks
- Matching talent to ideal opportunities
- There is potential to expand the desk through new business development as you grow.
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Your Responsibilities
As our Recruitment Consultant, you will:
- Work with clients to take job briefs, ask probing questions, and clarify hiring needs.
- Manage the candidate side of recruitment for junior and mid-level roles across:
- Medical Communications
- Medical Education
- Healthcare Advertising & PR
- Source, register, and nurture candidate relationships, maintaining an updated and organised database.
- Format and refine CVs for submission to clients while ensuring accuracy and clarity.
- Proactively match candidates to roles, highlighting opportunities that may fit their skills.
- Collaborate with Senior Consultants to support their specialisms.
- Develop market knowledge—understanding trends, key clients, and the wider Healthcare Communications sector.
- Take ownership of business development as your experience grows, expanding the desk.
Time Allocation
Work schedules will be:
- Tuesdays and Thursdays in Manchester/Cheadle office
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday – hybrid home-based (flexible arrangement supported).
Requirements
We’re looking for a candidate with:
- Some recruitment experience (up to about one year) – preferable.
- A background in customer service or account management.
- Confidence in:
- Telephone engagement
- Organisation and prioritisation
- Relationship-building
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including:
- Ongoing development of CV profile writing and refinement.
- Ability to work independently from home while staying connected to the team.
- Strong organisational and spreadsheet skills, with the capacity to manage a busy candidate pipeline in a dynamic sector.
- A relationship-driven, candidate-focused approach.
- Genuine interest in:
- Pharma
- Biotech
- MedTech
- The wider Life Sciences sector.
- Ability to commute from the Northwest (Cheadle and Manchester).
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Why Join Us?
Gain exposure to a fast-growing sector in a team that values quality over quantity. We offer:
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (Accruing to a maximum of 28 days)
- Contributory pension (4%)
- SimplyHealth Cash Plan
- Sick Cover
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Childcare vouchers
- Internal Referral scheme (for employee bonuses)
- Access to a financial advisor
- (After successful probation) Up to £25 paid contribution towards own mobile tariff
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you’re motivated, organised, and passionate about building your career in a specialist, see worldly sector, we’d love to hear from you.
Submit your application to businesssupport@compassltd.co.uk.
-- At Carrot, we’re committed to being approachable, knowledgeable, and transparent—supporting clients and candidates from ideation to commercialisation. Join an autonomous, supportive team with no tiered KPIs and quality as a priority. This truly is an industry for people who thrive on teamwork and mutual success—apply if you’re ready!
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