Recruiter - FMCG

Are you Robert Walters?

About the Job

Making the transition into recruitment can be a rewarding career move as the more you put in, the more you get out — both financially and career-wise.

Our consultants at Robert Walters come from a variety of international professional backgrounds with strong industry-focused experience. We offer excellent training and accelerated career development, with the opportunity to develop deep specialist knowledge and explore career opportunities across the globe. And if you’ve never thought about a role in recruitment before, you’re in exactly the right place. We have a great track record of turning industry professionals into stellar consultants.

When you join Robert Walters as a Recruitment Consultant, you will experience and celebrate a culture thrived and centred around teamwork, passion, integrity, quality and innovation. Our consultants have professional experience in the industries for which they recruit which enables them to draw upon their specialist knowledge to offer a genuine consultative service to employers and candidates.

As a Recruitment Consultant, you will act as an intermediary between organisations (clients) wishing to recruit staff and professionals (candidates) seeking a career change.

The objective of the consultant is to meet the needs of both the employer and the candidate to ensure the best mutual fit. This is more than just a case of skills matching. It is important to have a strong understanding of the employer’s business, their business culture as well as the professional ambitions of the candidate, ensuring that these are all aligned

What You Will Do

Candidate Management

• Professionally and effectively manage the recruitment process from beginning to end
• Source, select, and assess candidate skills and experiences, their career goals and their suitability for different roles, advise candidates on market conditions and job opportunities
• Organise and coordinate interviews with candidates and fully briefing candidates regarding roles
• Contribute to candidate review within your team and present high-quality candidates
• Take responsibility for keeping in touch with candidates to have a firm knowledge of your candidate pool - both active and inactive
• Constantly monitor the candidates in the database to ensure candidates’ availability is kept updated through a periodic review
• Develop and provide consultation to a large network of candidates with both immediate and long-term career needs
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of information of candidates within the database

Client Engagement

• Arrange and attend meetings with prospective clients and keep in regular contact to build positive, productive and long-term and trusted relationships with new and existing clients
• Gain a thorough understanding of your client’s business, culture and successfully interpret their unique resourcing requirement and offer a solution focused approach
• Consult and advise clients on our portfolio of solutions
• Present profiles to clients, either for existing roles or on a speculative basis
• Ensure only high-quality candidates are put forward to our clients for interview
• Adhere to a short turnaround time for screening applicants, advertising response, reference checking
• Manage the interview process - from candidate screening through to interview, feedback and negotiation of remuneration package with client
• Ensure the Robert Walters database accurately reflects all business dealings with clients and candidates
• Lead and Support candidate and client functions and events

Seek Opportunities & Thought Leadership that foster business growth

• Take ownership of your business development plan within your industry specialisation
• Generating new business via pro-active business development
• Build cooperative internal relationships focusing on cross-divisional and cross-regional relationships
• Develop a solid business pipeline and consistently achieve all revenue and targets
• Understand Robert Walters commercial terms and negotiate (within pre-agreed parameters with Manager)
• Identify potential recruitment consultants and refer them to the business
• Gain understanding of your market specialization by attending specialist events/webinars
• Keep up to date about industry trends/recruitment best practices to ensure you can provide and demonstrate market knowledge to both candidates and clients

What You Will Bring

• 3-5 years of Professional experience in your relevant field of specialization
• Determination to succeed (Grit) and resilience
• Pro-activeness and commercial acumen
• A commitment to exceeding client expectations, attracting top talent and achieving targets
• An entrepreneurial, organised and driven approach with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent team player – you’ll enjoy sharing information and building robust relationships
• The initiative it takes to make sound decisions and recommend innovative solutions

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.