Granite Recruitment
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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Senior Recruitment Consultant – Contract Recruitment
Contract recruitment | UK Energy sector | Office-based | Senior, warm-desk opportunity
Granite Recruitment is a specialist talent solutions provider to the UK Energy sector, supporting clients across Oil & Gas, Engineering, Renewables and the wider Energy markets.
This is a senior, high-energy recruitment role for an experienced consultant who can deliver results across an established warm contract desk. The majority of your time will be focused on resourcing: identifying, engaging and managing high-quality contractors against live and anticipated assignments. Alongside delivery, you will maintain regular, proactive contact with clients to strengthen relationships, deepen our understanding of their businesses, projects and workforce plans, and identify further opportunities to support their contract hiring needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver across an established warm contract desk: prioritise live and anticipated assignments, maintaining pace, quality and consistency across multiple requirements.
- Lead contractor resourcing: identify, approach and engage high-quality active and passive contractors through targeted search, advertising, referrals, networking and database activity.
- Build specialist contractor communities: develop long-term relationships and maintain strong, readily available talent pipelines across your market.
- Manage the end-to-end contract recruitment lifecycle: lead requirement qualification, sourcing, shortlisting, interview coordination, rate negotiation, compliance, placement, onboarding and assignment extensions.
- Provide excellent contractor care: maintain regular contact throughout assignments, resolve issues promptly and support redeployment and retention.
- Strengthen client relationships: maintain purposeful contact with hiring managers and decision-makers, building credibility and becoming a trusted contract recruitment partner.
- Deepen customer understanding: develop detailed knowledge of each client’s business, projects, workforce plans, contractor demand and future resource requirements.
- Identify additional opportunities: use insight gained through delivery and regular engagement to expand existing accounts, secure repeat requirements and grow contractor numbers.
- Provide consultative market insight: advise clients on contractor availability, market rates, competitor activity, mobilisation timescales and hiring conditions.
- Drive commercial performance: work towards ambitious margin, contractor, activity and placement targets while maintaining a strong focus on quality and long-term value.
- Support team growth: share market intelligence, contribute to best practice and demonstrate the standards expected of a senior consultant.
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What We’re Looking For
- Proven contract recruitment experience, with a strong record of sourcing contractors, filling assignments and managing a busy desk.
- A high-energy, delivery-focused approach and the resilience to maintain momentum across an established warm desk.
- Strong search, contractor attraction, assessment, rate negotiation, compliance and onboarding skills.
- The ability to build credibility quickly with hiring managers, senior stakeholders and specialist contractors.
- A demonstrable track record against margin, contractor, activity, KPI or other commercial targets.
- Excellent organisation and pipeline discipline, with the ability to manage multiple client requirements, contractor processes and live assignments at once.
- A consultative approach and genuine curiosity about clients’ businesses, enabling you to anticipate project demand, uncover requirements and strengthen long-term relationships.
- Experience in the Energy sector or technical recruitment markets is desirable, but not essential where there is strong evidence of contract recruitment success.
- A desire to spend much of your day building relationships from outbound sales activity
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Why Join Granite Recruitment?
- Join a growing recruitment business at an important stage of expansion.
- Take ownership of an established warm contract desk with live requirements, active clients and strong scope for further growth.
- Benefit from a highly attractive commission scheme that rewards strong delivery and commercial performance.
- Receive structured support, training and development, with clear opportunity for career progression and commercial success.
- Be part of a collaborative, ambitious office environment where strong performance is recognised and rewarded.
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