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🚨 Senior Recruitment Consultant – Life Sciences | Bishop’s Stortford
We’re working with a highly specialist, boutique Life Sciences recruitment business that is looking to add an experienced Senior Recruitment Consultant to its growing team.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants the autonomy and earning potential of a boutique recruitment business, without the layers of management, bureaucracy and red tape that can come with a larger agency.
🧬 The business
The business specialises exclusively within Life Sciences, partnering with a broad range of clients across the sector and supporting them with highly specialist recruitment solutions. They operate across Retained Search, Contract and Contingent Permanent recruitment, meaning you’ll have the opportunity to work across different recruitment models and build genuinely consultative relationships with clients.
The business has built its reputation around quality, specialist knowledge and long-term partnerships, rather than simply chasing volume.
They’re now looking to bring in an experienced recruiter who can help continue that growth.
🎯 The role
As a Senior Consultant, you’ll be operating as a true 360 recruiter, with responsibility for developing your own client portfolio, winning new business and managing the full recruitment process from initial approach through to placement.
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You’ll have the opportunity to:
- Develop and grow existing client relationships
- Identify and win new business within the Life Sciences market
- Manage both contingent and retained recruitment assignments
- Build and maintain a strong candidate network
- Source, assess and qualify specialist Life Sciences talent
- Manage the full recruitment process from BD through to offer and placement
- Conduct client meetings and take detailed recruitment briefs
- Develop a strong understanding of your chosen market and become a genuine subject matter expert
- Work on senior and specialist appointments where quality and market knowledge really matter
- Build long-term relationships with both candidates and clients
- Have genuine ownership over your desk, market and career progression
This isn't a role where you'll simply be handed vacancies and expected to fill them. You'll be encouraged to build a market, develop relationships and become known within your specialist area.
💡 Who are they looking for?
We're looking for someone who already understands recruitment and is ready for the next stage of their career.
You'll ideally have:
- 3+ years' recruitment experience
- Experience within Life Sciences / Pharma / Biotech / MedTech / Clinical / Scientific recruitment
- A proven track record across 360 recruitment
- Strong business development and relationship-building skills
- Experience winning and/or managing clients
- Commercial awareness and a genuine desire to earn
- The confidence to operate independently and take ownership of a desk
- A consultative approach rather than a transactional recruitment style
- Ambition to progress and grow with a specialist business
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🚀 Why join?
This is a business where your impact will genuinely be visible.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Work with a specialist Life Sciences business
- Earn excellent commission on your own billings
- Work across retained, contract & contingent recruitment
- Have genuine ownership of your market and desk
- Become a specialist within a high-value niche
- Progress as the business grows
- Work from a boutique office in Bishop's Stortford
- Work alongside an experienced and supportive team
- Have access to high-quality, interesting recruitment mandates
If you're currently working in Life Sciences recruitment and feel ready for more autonomy, more ownership and the opportunity to build something rather than simply work a desk, this could be a very good next move.
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