Why This Is Different

• You’re not chasing random jobs
• The business has deliberately moved away from traditional contingency recruitment.
• Consultants work with clients on long-term partnerships, often with multiple vacancies and significant hiring requirements.

This means you’ll have genuine job flow rather than spending the majority of your time trying to convince businesses to give you a vacancy.

• You’ll work with genuinely interesting businesses
• The client base includes venture-backed companies developing new technologies across energy, mobility, robotics and infrastructure.

These are businesses that are building products and technologies designed to change the way the world moves, stores energy and powers itself.

• You can earn quickly
• Because consultants are joining established projects with live vacancies, there is no requirement to spend months building a desk before seeing financial results.

For the right individual, earning significant commission from the early stages of their tenure is achievable.

• You’ll have US exposure
• The majority of the business is North American.

The role therefore provides the opportunity to build relationships with US businesses and candidates and, for the right individuals, travel regularly to the US to meet clients and develop relationships.

• You’ll be joining a deliberately small business
• The ambition isn’t to become a recruitment corporation with hundreds of employees.

The long-term goal is to build a high-performing team of around 10–15 people where everyone is commercially successful, well rewarded and genuinely invested in the business.

That means individual contribution matters.

You won’t be one of 100 consultants fighting for attention.

The Ideal Candidate

The business is particularly interested in recruiters with around 18 months–5+ years’ experience, although the right individual with more experience will also be considered.

Previous experience within CleanTech, Energy or Engineering recruitment would be useful but is not essential.

The key requirement is that candidates have experience working on a genuine recruitment desk and understand the fundamentals of both delivery and commercial recruitment.

The ideal person will:

• Have approximately 18 months+ recruitment experience
• Have experience working a 360 desk, or be keen to develop further commercially
• Be comfortable with business development
• Have experience managing candidate processes from initial conversation through to placement
• Be commercially driven and motivated by earning potential
• Be capable of working with senior-level candidates and clients
• Be organised, proactive and self-motivated
• Want to work in a specialist rather than generalist environment
• Be comfortable working with US clients and candidates
• Have the maturity to manage a flexible working pattern
• Be ambitious without needing a traditional corporate career ladder

The business is also open to someone who has been more delivery-focused but has demonstrated the commercial awareness and ambition to develop their BD and client-facing skills.

Sector experience is less important than the quality of recruitment environment they’ve worked in and the level of people they’ve recruited.

What You’ll Get

• £30,000–£40,000 basic salary, depending on experience
• Up to 30% commission
• No artificial barriers to earning commission
• Immediate access to live, high-value recruitment projects
• Predominantly retained / embedded recruitment
• Regular exposure to the US market
• Potential for international travel
• Hybrid working, with approximately three days per week in the Manchester office
• Significant flexibility around working hours
• Direct access to the founder
• Opportunity to work alongside experienced specialist recruiters
• The chance to help shape the growth of a deliberately small, high-performing business
• Genuine opportunity to earn significant money as the business scales

The Culture

This is a business built around high performance, autonomy and commercial maturity.

There isn’t a rigid 8:30–5:30 structure.

The team understands that US recruitment can require flexibility, particularly when working with clients on the West Coast, and individuals are trusted to structure their day around delivering results.

The expectation is that people will work hard and take ownership, but there is flexibility around how they achieve that.

The business is looking for people who understand that with the opportunity to earn significant money and work with exceptional clients comes a level of commitment.

The Long-Term Vision

The ambition is not simply to add as many recruiters as possible.

The plan is to build a small team of exceptional recruiters working with exceptional clients.

As the business grows, there will be opportunities for people to take greater ownership of clients, markets and areas of expertise.

However, the focus isn’t on creating layers of management for the sake of it.

The priority is building a team where people can:

• Work with world-class companies.
• Travel internationally.
• Build exceptional recruitment careers.
• Earn significant money.
• And enjoy doing it.

For a recruiter who is looking for a more entrepreneurial environment, exposure to the US market and the opportunity to work on high-quality retained recruitment projects from day one, this is an opportunity worth exploring.