Recruitment Team Manager
Birmingham - Technology
40,638 to 48,100 plus commission

Welcome to Hays!
At Hays, we believe in being long-term partners with our people as well as our customers. With over 50 years experience Hays operates in 16 countries within 6 core industries and a selection of local specialisms.
Together, we are better together: we support, celebrate, and share with each other to create stronger outcomes for all. Launch your career with the worlds leading specialist recruitment and workforce solution organisation. Join the Hays team!

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Hays Birmingham is home to one of our flagship offices and a market-leading Technology business operating from our prestigious Colmore Square location. The Birmingham Technology team partners with a wide range of clients across the Midlands, delivering specialist recruitment solutions across Data, Cloud and Software Development markets.

Due to continued investment and growth ambitions, we are looking for an experienced Recruitment Team Manager to lead one of our largest and most successful Technology teams. This is an exciting opportunity to manage and develop a team of 11 consultants while maintaining your own successful contract recruitment desk.

You will join a highly collaborative leadership team, influence regional strategy and play a key role in driving the continued growth of the Technology business across Birmingham and the wider Central region.

The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Recruitment Team Manager to join our Technology division of 15 consultants in Birmingham, leading a team of 6 temporary consultants specialising in Data, Cloud and Software recruitment.

You will be responsible for driving team performance, developing high-performing consultants and delivering sustainable growth across the Technology business. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will continue to operate a successful 360 temporary recruitment desk, building strategic relationships and delivering exceptional outcomes for both clients and candidates.
Some of your main responsibilities may include:

• Lead, coach and develop a team of 6 recruitment consultants to achieve and exceed individual and team targets. Source, interview and place high-quality technology professionals into temporary and contract opportunities.
• Identify and proactively partner with new and existing clients through business development activity to increase market share and create profitable growth opportunities.
• Expand existing client relationships while developing new business opportunities across Birmingham and the surrounding areas.
• Manage complex recruitment processes and strategic client relationships across Data, Cloud and Software markets.
• Take accountability for team performance, desk profitability and achieving ambitious growth objectives.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to contribute to wider regional strategy across the Central Region.

Who are we looking for?
You will be ambitious, commercially driven and passionate about developing people. It is not just about what you have achieved, but your ability to inspire others to achieve more.

• Previous experience as a Recruitment Manager, Team Manager, Managing Consultant, Principal Consultant or Senior Consultant within Technology or a comparable specialist market.
• Strong leadership and coaching capability with a genuine passion for developing high-performing teams.
• Proven track record of successful contract or permanent recruitment, business development and revenue generation. Customer centric by understanding clients needs and delivering tailored solutions.
• Have a strategic mindset to identify opportunities and drive profitable outcomes.
• Open to change and comfortable operating within a fast-paced target-driven environment.
• Develop new business relationships and maintain your network through client meetings, networking events and market engagement activity.
• Commercially driven with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and decision makers. Collaborative in spirit, people focused with a sales-driven mentality.

What you will get in return - The Hays Deal

• Believing that personal growth leads to professional progression, you will feel heard, valued and assured that we care about your wellbeing, in an inclusive environment where you can be your authentic self. This will enable you to reach your full potential, broadening your ability to make a positive impact leading to your own personal success.
• Access to leadership development programmes to support your management career
• Cutting-edge tools and technology to enable you to make an extraordinary impact
• Flexible work arrangements: Hybrid working policy
• Generous leave entitlements to take advantage of parental leave, volunteering days and your birthday off!
• High Performer Incentives including local and international trips. Montenegro 2024, South Africa 2025 and Mauritius this year!
• Wellbeing rewards: Benefit from health, leisure and lifestyle partnership discounts

What to do next
If you strive for performance, develop others and act with integrity, Hays is the place to be. Joining Hays means joining a business that is going places. Apply today!

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.