About the Role
As a Principal Recruitment Consultant, you'll be a senior figure within your team. The role involves working closely with clients to develop robust relationships and uncover new opportunities, acting as a role model to other consultants. You should be a high achiever, a top biller, adept at winning hearts and minds and bringing in new business.
What you will be doing
- Lead recruitment assignments creatively applying knowledge to specific challenges
- Develop existing client relationships and generate new business by networking, gathering market information and making business development calls
- Manage and close complex deals as well as sell our unique and value add services
- Take responsibility for key client relationships, resolve any issues and ensure we always deliver on or exceed all expectations
- Build strong knowledge of each client's organisation and develop and implement a range of recruitment campaigns on their behalf
- Source, select and match candidates with relevant roles, arranging interviews, briefing candidates and providing feedback
- Write a range of marketing materials, including adverts and mail shots
Who you are
- Commitment to taking ownership of your own growth and career advancement
- The creativity and entrepreneurial spirit it takes to achieve success in changing circumstances
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills, a strategic approach and a commercial focus
- Exceptional skills as a Recruitment Consultant - maintaining a high profile in your division
- The ability to think laterally to generate innovative solutions and create greater value
- A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key
- A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
- Competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
- Private medical insurance
- Opportunity to partake/qualify for our Global incentive weekend
- Employee wellbeing through various programmes
- Clear progression plan and international work opportunities (multiple offices globally)
- Collaborative working environment that is sociable, celebratory and supportive
- Flexi-working
- Best in class training & development programmes
Apply now!
As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.
About the job
Contract Type: Permanent
Specialism: Recruitment
Focus: Consultant
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Associate
Language: English - Professional working
Job Reference: 7858
Date posted: 28 January 2026
Consultant: Georgia Whiting