Trainee Recruitment Consultants

Offices: London, New York, Amsterdam

Hiring for Trainee Recruitment Consultants eager to work the UK market from our London office, or the US market initially from our London office and relocating over to New York City.

Company Profile:

Bramwith Consulting is a multi-award winning, rapidly expanding recruitment consultancy specialised in placing Procurement and Supply Chain Management professionals in the UK and Globally. Since our inception in August 2006, we have grown year-on-year in personnel, permanent revenue, contract revenue and profitability. Our top rookie biller and our top overall biller have also always billed more year-on-year, as a result of our impressive and still growing client portfolio, candidate database and approach to recruitment. We are now the market leading Procurement recruiter in the London & South-East region and increasingly across Continental Europe and North America.

We believe that successful recruitment is partnership-based, and we work closely with our clients to provide tailor-made solutions to suit individual requirements. Working on both contingency and retained search mandates, our consultants are experts in their respective niche markets and are regarded as such by clients and candidates alike. We cover both permanent and contract recruitment with our consultants working on a “dual desk” system whereby they can work on both types of requirement.

As well as being the market leading Procurement recruitment firm in the UK, we are aggressively growing our Global Procurement team, as well as our UK Procurement and Supply Chain teams, with recent placements in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Dubai, Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden and China.

Bramwith Consulting are an equal opportunities employer and recruiter, reflected in our gender balanced and multi-cultural workforce. We are proud to be a member of both REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation - https://www.rec.uk.com/) and Business in the Community (https://www.bitc.org.uk/) and have even won awards for our diverse culture and workforce.

Bramwith Consulting’s Core Values:

1. Proven - We pride ourselves on our track record of delivery – across contingent, retained and team campaigns. We’ve been sector specialists for over a decade – we know our stuff!
2. Trusted - We hold long standing relationships with our clients and candidates, we are all about long term partnership as opposed to short term gains.
3. World Class - Our expertise and global reach are just part of the reason we are seen as one of the leaders in the industry, in the UK and beyond.
4. Passionate - We care about our work, our candidates and our clients, we want to be the best and do the best we can.

Recent Awards & Nominations

Awards & Nominations in 2020/21:
1. FINALIST - LinkedIn Talent Awards - Search & Staffing Talent Engagement Award: 21-49 employees
2. WINNER - Investing in Talent - Diversity & Inclusion Champion
3. HIGHLY COMMENDED - Recruiter Awards - Agency Recruitment Leader of the Year (Saffa Ayub, MD)
4. Recruiter Awards – Recruitment Agency of the Year
5. Recruiter Awards – Best Candidate Care

Awards & Nominations in 2019:
1. WINNER - Investing in Talent Awards - Most Inspiring Senior Manager/Director (Ben Riley, Director)
2. WINNER - Investing in Talent Awards - Best Recruitment Agency to work for
3. IRP Awards - Business Leader of the Year (Saffa Ayub, MD)
4. IRP Awards - Best Company to Work for
5. Recruiter Awards - Agency Recruitment Leader of the Year (Saffa Ayub, MD)
6. Recruiter Awards - Best Candidate Care
7. Recruiter Awards - Best Client Service
8. Recruiter Awards - Best Professional Services Recruitment Agency

Over 10 Awards & Nominations in 2018 which included:
1. HIGHLY COMMENDED - IRP Awards - Best Company to Work for
2. Recruiter Awards – Agency Recruitment Leader of the Year (Saffa Ayub, MD)
3. Global Recruiter Awards - Best Recruitment Business

Your Role:

As a Trainee Recruitment Consultant, you will join either our specialist Procurement or Supply Chain Management Teams in the UK or US, working with experienced recruiters, Managers and Directors. From day one, you will work in a full recruitment life-cycle role, involving both generating candidates (advertising, head-hunting, referrals etc) and generating clients (cold/warm calling, client meetings, leads etc), whilst equally leveraging off Bramwith’s extensive database of clients and candidates. Existing key clients range from SMEs through to large blue-chip multinationals including blue sky strategy consultancies, Big 4 management consultancies, tier one investment banks, oil & gas super-majors, magic circle law firms, high street retailers, leading pharmaceutical firms and many more.

We offer the chance for Trainee Recruitment Consultants, with no prior recruitment or even sales experience, to take on responsibility very quickly through generating your own clients, account managing clients, managing your own day, whilst having extensive one-on-one training from established top billers and proven Managers/Directors. We operate a flat management structure with all our Managers, Directors, top billers sitting “on desk” next to Trainee Recruiters, Senior Consultants etc so we can pass on knowledge and expertise on a daily basis.

As an ambitious and growing business, we are looking for the brightest, most charismatic, hard-working people to join and develop a long term and successful career in recruitment. We offer a meritocratic promotion environment based purely on your personal billing, where you are encouraged to take on more and more responsibility as you develop into a Senior Consultant and hopefully into Management/Directorship.

Training:

• Formal, Classroom Training – delivered by the Managers and Directors, working through 26 tailor made training courses which include: Candidate Qualification, Advert Writing, Head-hunting, Cold-Call Business Development, Retainer Pitching, Rapport Building, Reference Taking and Being a “Green Consultant” etc.

• On-the-job Training - in addition to our extensive formal training, a huge part of our training is on-the-job. This comprises work shadowing the top billers, Managers and Directors as well as having them listening to your calls, going on meetings with you, giving you feedback etc. We have also recently set up a Bramwith library of sales, psychology and motivational books for staff to read at their leisure.
• External Training – we send consultants out on recruitment, sales, management, motivational training external training courses depending on their level. Current off-site training includes: The Engage London Sales Conference, The National Sales Academy, Managers Managing Stress and Raise the Bar Management Training.

• Daily, Weekly, Monthly and 6 Monthly Reviews - with a Manager and/or Director to assess your activity, results and implement more training, guidance and consultant action points. We believe that as well as working hard, we need to work smart and optimise our time and efforts on the activities that are most likely to make us money.

Basic Salary:

• Competitive Basic - dependent on background and experience, with increases based solely on your personal billing and promotions.

Individual, Uncapped Commission Scheme:

• Quarterly Commission – uncapped commission scheme with no threshold
• Annual Top-Up Commission - we also offer an annual top-up commission scheme to ensure you take home a fixed percentage of the revenue you generate as the bare minimum

Incentives:

• Quarterly Lunch Clubs – every quarter, the top billers (individual targets) go to a Michelin Star restaurant chosen by the first person to hit their individual target. Recent Lunch Club restaurants have included: Nobu, Alain Ducasse, Hakkasan, Pied a Terre, The Square and The River Cafe
• Monthly Team Nights Out - based on hitting team monthly targets.
• Company Office Nights Out – both ad hoc Thursday and Friday night drinks as well as more organised office nights out at Awards Dinners and celebrating smashing monthly office targets.
• Monthly “House Competition” Nights Out - everyone at Bramwith Consulting joins one of three houses (Amazon, Congo and Rio Dulce) and competes in monthly competitive events against the other houses for an annual trophy. Events have included: Dodgeball, Quasar, Virtual Golf, Go-karting, Rounders in Hyde Park, Bowling, Poker Night, Rock Climbing, Pool, Table Tennis and Zorb Football.
• Over Covid lockdown we have held Thursday evening at 7.30pm Microsoft Teams socials with are optional to attend but are very well received, including:
  • Cocktail making– we sent out all the ingredients through a firm and then everyone logged on for cocktail masterclasses on our favourite cocktails including Negronis, Mojitos, White Russians, Margaritas and Espresso Martinis
  • Take away night - we send ready-made cocktails through the post to each consultant along with a £20 budget to buy your own take-away then quiz nights and other fun games
  • Online gym class – 45 minute “Joe Wicks style” workout with a fitness trainer over Zoom
  • Make your own face mask – everyone bought their own avocados/cucumbers and other ingredients then made face masks

• 3 Company Holidays Every Year:
  • Office Winter Holiday in a European city – Budapest/Lisbon/Madrid/Seville (January)
  • Office AGM Holiday in Malta/Ibiza/Barcelona/Marseille (June)
  • Top Billers Holiday in Las Vegas/Cancun/Barbados/New York (October)

• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Working from home and flexible hours
   

Job Profile:

• Strong academics, inclusive of a Bachelors degree from a leading UK or international University
• Previous commercial office-based experience. This could include a work placement, summer work or post graduate experience
• Previous sales or client facing experience is useful but by no means essential, although no prior recruitment experience is required
• Hard working, professional person with a track record of working hard and displaying our 4 cultural values – Proven, Trusted, World Class, Passionate
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Proven track record of success, proved through a combination of academics, sport, music, work and/or entrepreneurial exploits
• Track record of taking on more responsibility, which can be displayed in your CV. This could include being part of a university committee, sports or society (President, Club Captain, Treasurer, Secretary, Social Secretary etc); running your own business; team leading or taking on greater responsibility in work experience or commercial roles