Associate/ Recruitment Consultant

Robert Walters is an award-winning business and a world-leading recruitment consultancy. We specialise in permanent and contract recruitment across all industry sectors where we work with world leading investment banks, multinational blue-chip commercial organisations and innovative SMEs as clients.

If you love working and interacting with people, thrive in a fast paced environment and driven to achieve sales results then a career in recruitment could be just the opportunity for you.
Alternatively if you are an established recruiter but are looking for a change where you will be guaranteed to work with a team of passionate people, have constant growth and development and established clientele then look no further.

Our Wellington office is expanding! and we are looking for passionate sales professionals with client facing experience or experienced recruitment consultants or to come and join our high performing teams.

As an Associate or Recruitment Consultant your role will involve sourcing and management of candidates for a range of contract and permanent vacancies Please note you don’t need to have previous experience in the discpline that you recruit that’s our job to teach you!

You will be responsible for:

• Developing new business with prospective clients and keeping in regular contact with them to build positive, productive and long-term corporate relationships
• Servicing and developing existing client relationships through meetings, client functions and events
• Understanding clients' business operations and solving their recruitment needs
• Identifying and matching candidates for appropriate positions, arranging interviews and fully briefing candidates on the company and role
• Taking responsibility for candidate care and keeping in regular contact with candidates
• Professionally and effectively managing the recruitment process from beginning to end
• Maintaining CRM database records and ensuring all information is always up to date
• Identifying and developing new business opportunities through the application of sales, business development and networking strategies
• Sourcing new candidates for the business using a variety of methods, including headhunting, referrals, job boards and networking

Key Requirements:

• Ideally 12 + months recruitment or client facing sales experience within a corporate environment is preferred
• Desire to work in a target driven, energetic sales environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proactive and positive approach with a strong, driven work ethic
• Persistence, resilience, drive and determination to succeed

Our Culture:

When you become part of Robert Walters, you’ll quickly realise why we pride ourselves on our culture. Our team are made up of high energy people who share a supportive, enthusiastic attitude and make working at Robert Walters a vibrant energetic fun place to be. We prepare our people for success with hands on industry leading training and development in a nurturing supportive learning environment. We give our people the tools, autonomy and flexibility to deliver amazing results.

What we offer:

• Central Wellington
• Flexible working
• Competitive base salary and bonus structure
• Best in class training and development
• Clear and structured career progression
• Surface pro and phone
• Quarterly team days out
• Subsidised gym memberships
• Autonomous culture with a healthy work/life balance
• Private healthcare insurance
• Volunteering opportunities

To apply please click apply or call Tory Hibbard for a confidential discussion 09 374 7308

Robert Walters is an equal opportunity employer. We do all we can to create a collaborative and diverse global team, where good ideas can thrive, and our colleagues can learn and lead. We prohibit discrimination based on age, colour, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, We listen deeply and speak directly to create an environment that’s open to difference.

Robert Walters New Zealand is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.