About the role
We are excited to be looking for a Principal Consultant to join our Adecco Life Sciences UK team as we continue to embark on a period of continued growth within our specialist markets.
This role will offer you industry leading training with a friendly, fun and dynamic team of consultants.
We are growing and this is an incredible opportunity to be a crucial part of our Contracts division.
We will be focusing upon expanding our offering within Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Validation and more!
As Principal Consultant, you will focus mainly on: contract recruitment, new business development and you will be recognized as a trusted advisor for the Life-Sciences sector.
We would be looking for someone with prior experience recruiting in the Medical Device or Pharmaceutical industries, as well as experience in business development. Your personal sales results will contribute to the team achieving and exceeding its objectives and KPI's. You will identify potential recruitment and business opportunities within life sciences and generate revenue by placing candidates into temporary assignments, either into new or existing accounts.
What you'll be doing
You will be in charge of the full contract recruitment life cycle, which has 3 main elements:
Sales, Delivery and Compliance
- You will need to develop and maintain good working relationships with clients ensuring an efficient service is provided that exceeds their resourcing requirements
- Produce individual client strategies and utilize thought leadership opportunities to build customer base
- Manage client relationships to optimize all opportunities, gain commitment from clients through regulars sales calls and visits
- Business Development, keeping up to date on competitor activity and market developments, and winning new business
- Structure daily and weekly activities to ensure targets are met or exceeded
- Manage hotlists of candidates, to ensure you have the very best available candidates in your specialist market
- Report individual weekly performance forecasts, update and review to line manager and colleagues in open forum
- Receive and qualify requirements from client
- Publication of relevant advertising
- Sourcing for, qualifying and submission of relevant candidates to client roles
- Arrange interviews for clients and candidates
- Make offers to candidates, securing placements
- Ongoing Contractor/Candidate Management
- Project Involvement and Assisting in training of consultants in best practice
- Be accountable for own compliance to all business standards
About you
- You have a strong desire to succeed, win business and grow your market
- Strong communication and relationship building skills
- You are resilient, self-motivated and able to work under pressure
- Passionate about having a Customer Centric approach
- Confident, able to use own initiative, manage own workload and drive results
Experience in:
- 360 Contract Recruitment within Life Sciences / Pharma / Medical Devices sector preferred
- Reaching and exceeding sales targets
- Business Development within Life Sciences/Pharma/Medical Devices
- Working in an environment that is fast-paced and target-driven
Why choose us?
- Hybrid working
- TagU: an amazing platform which offers thousands of life & work skills for free - want to learn a new language? Go for it!
- LinkedIn Learning: access to a multitude of courses to fine tune your skills
- Range of discounts: via our own benefits platform (buy & sell holidays, shopping vouchers, cinema tickets etc)
- Private Healthcare option
- Huge Incentives - branch and company wide
It's an exciting time to be part of our team. We're proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally.
You'll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That's why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident, and insightful.
A journey to bring out the best in you
Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset -that's what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That's what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while the sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together.
Make an impact where it matters most.