STR Group
Solutions Consultant
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Solutions Consultant
Location: Portsmouth
Basic salary: £25,000, increasing to £26,000–£27,000 following successful completion of the Training Academy and achievement of performance targets
To support your transition into the role, you’ll receive a commission accelerator of up to £1,500, paid across your first six months while you develop your specialist market knowledge, client network and sales pipeline.
- Year 1 OTE: £35,000
- Year 2 OTE: £50,000–£70,000
- Year 3 OTE: £80,000–£100,000+
Are you a recent graduate or an ambitious salesperson looking for a career where your commercial ability can make a measurable impact? Or are you a consultant currently working a UK recruitment desk where your market is saturated and your fees and timesheets are consistently driven down. Why not explore a better and lucrative way!
At STR Group, our Solutions Consultants partner with organisations across specialist STEM industries to understand their business challenges and develop tailored talent, and project solutions to help address them. You’ll learn how to secure critical STEM professionals, build multi-disciplinary project teams and work towards supporting the delivery of complex technical programmes worldwide.
We’ll teach you how to develop new business, diagnose client challenges, use data and market intelligence, build influential relationships and present compelling commercial solutions. Working with professionals and decision-makers across multiple time zones, you’ll develop the specialist knowledge and credibility needed to become a trusted advisor. At STR, that’s the level you’ll begin building towards from day one.
Working at STR
STR Group is an international workforce and project solutions consultancy specialising in high-tech facilities, life sciences, engineering and technology, marine and automation. Since our inception in 2000, we have continued to evolve alongside our clients and the STEM industries we support. Our approach begins with understanding what a client is trying to achieve. We diagnose the challenge, evaluate the available options and design a solution aligned with the client’s commercial and operational objectives.
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What will you be doing?
- Identifying prospective clients and growing your specialist market through solution-focused outbound sales
- Consulting with clients to understand their business objectives, workforce challenges and project requirements
- Building influential relationships with senior stakeholders and specialist STEM professionals
- Identifying, engaging and assessing specialist professionals for business-critical opportunities
- Creating and presenting tailored commercial proposals, from critical hires and retained assignments to multi-hire and full project delivery
- Managing the full consultancy process, from diagnosing the initial requirement through to successful delivery and ongoing partnership
- Managing personalised KPIs, revenue targets and your own developing business pipeline
- Taking ownership of your career progression and earning potential
What are we looking for?
You don’t need previous industry experience. Our Training Academy will provide the knowledge and practical skills you need to succeed. We’re looking for someone who is:
- Ambitious, commercially minded and motivated by measurable success
- Confident communicating with new people and developing professional relationships
- Curious and able to ask thoughtful questions to understand the real challenge
- Comfortable working towards targets in a fast-paced sales environment
- Resilient, proactive and willing to take ownership
- Able to communicate complex information clearly in a consultative manner
- Interested in developing expertise within global STEM industries
- Motivated by career progression, personal development and uncapped earning potential
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What are we offering you?
- Structured, transparent and performance-based career progression
- Uncapped commission of up to 30%
- Award-winning, ongoing learning and development delivered by dedicated in-house experts
- Flexible and hybrid working following completion of the Training Academy, subject to maintaining performance targets
- A 3pm finish every Friday
- Modern, state-of-the-art offices with breakout areas
- Daily breakfast provided
- Employee of the Month and Employee of the Quarter awards
- Quarterly Directors’ Lunches Michelin recommended restaurants
- An active Equality, Diversity and Inclusion board
- Training Academy graduation celebration
- Annual, all-expenses-paid incentive trips for top performers
- Annual Awards, Summer Party and Christmas Party
- Long-service anniversary rewards, including additional holiday, bonuses, vouchers, champagne and gifts, depending on length of service
- 23 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing by one day for each completed year of service and capped at 28 days
- The option to purchase up to five additional days of annual leave
- Healthcare cash plan and optional private healthcare from day one
- Company pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Your birthday off
- Drinks fridge
- Free on-site parking
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme through Octopus Electric Vehicles
- Tech salary-sacrifice scheme through Currys
- Employee Referral Programme
This is an opportunity to build a highly rewarding career while developing genuine expertise in specialist global markets. STR is committed to offering applicants with disabilities an interview where they meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Apply today and begin your career as a Solutions Consultant with STR Group.
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