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Recruitment Consultant - Life Sciences (Medical Devices) - Permanent Desk
£27,937 - £43,851 + uncapped commission
Portadown
About Hays Life Sciences
Ireland is a global leader in Life Sciences, with continued investment across Medical Devices, Biopharma, and Advanced Manufacturing. As demand for specialist engineering and manufacturing talent continues to increase, we're looking for an ambitious Recruitment Consultant to help shape and grow our Medical Devices permanent recruitment offering.
Joining Hays Life Sciences means becoming part of a high-performing team with established client relationships, strong job flow, and significant opportunities to build a highly profitable desk within a booming market.
The Role
As a Recruitment Consultant, you will:
- Develop relationships with leading Medical Device and Life Sciences organisations across Ireland
- Build and manage a network of high-demand contract professionals across engineering, validation, automation, quality, and manufacturing
- Generate and convert new business opportunities within existing and prospective accounts
- Source, interview, and place specialist contractors into key projects nationwide
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from business development through to candidate placement and client relationship management
- Build your personal brand as a trusted market expert
- Achieve and exceed commercial and performance targets
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What We're Looking For
You don't need prior recruitment experience to succeed, but you will need:
- A driven, ambitious and self-motivated mindset
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills
- Commercial awareness and confidence in a sales environment
- A consultative approach and genuine curiosity about your market
- Resilience, organisation, and a desire to build a successful career
Why Join Hays?
- Access to team leadership training for you to evolve your career
- Cutting-edge tools and technology to enable you to make an extraordinary impact
- Flexible work arrangements: Hybrid working policy
- Generous leave entitlements to take advantage of parental leave, volunteering days and your birthday off!
- Celebrate success: Culture built on rewarding success with the opportunity to influence your earning potential with uncapped commission in addition to base salary
- High Performer Incentives including local and international trips. Montenegro 2024, South Africa 2025 and Mauritius this year!
- Global career opportunities - make your mark locally or explore international opportunities with Hays
- Thrive in a workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone feels welcome
- Wellbeing rewards: Benefit from health, leisure and lifestyle partnership discounts
- Employee Resource Groups and Working Groups for you to connect and collaborate with like-minded colleagues
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Why This Opportunity?
Ireland's Life Sciences sector continues to attract major investment, creating significant demand for engineering and manufacturing professionals. With talent shortages driving demand across Medical Devices and Pharma, this is a great time to build a career in this area of specialist recruitment.
This is an opportunity to join an established team in Portadown, develop a thriving desk, and accelerate your career while earning uncapped commission in a high-growth market.
Ready to take the next step? Apply today and build your future with Hays Life Sciences.
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