Senior Recruitment Consultant

Executive Recruitment Consultant in Southampton focusing on Executive Search, Project Builds & GTM Hiring in Energy, Renewables & SaaS.

We were just named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2026, the only recruitment firm in Southampton to make the list, with a 94% employee engagement score. We are also the first recruitment company in Hampshire to become B Corp certified.

Executive Integrity is a specialist search firm partnering with private equity investors and high-growth businesses across energy, renewables and SaaS to place talent that drives real enterprise value. This includes retained executive search for CEOs, CROs, and commercial leaders, as well as building out project teams and go-to-market functions.

Looking for a career in sales? Some of our best consultants had never recruited before joining us. They came from various backgrounds but shared the instinct that makes someone good at this: the ability to hold a conversation, handle rejection, and a desire to earn.

You probably recognise yourself here:

• You’ve held down a role and stuck at it.
• You’ve worked somewhere with real customers, targets, and pressure.
• You’re comfortable picking up the phone.
• You stay composed when a deal wobbles or a client pushes back.
• You’re independent, financially motivated, and ready to commit.

A degree is not required; many top performers do not have one.

What you’ll actually do:

• Lead retained search assignments for private equity-backed and high-growth businesses.
• Build out project teams and go-to-market functions, managing multiple hires at pace.
• Engage directly with CEOs, CROs, and investment partners.
• Map talent markets and headhunt key individuals.
• Manage complex, multi-stakeholder processes from brief to placement.
• Generate new mandates and build client relationships over time.

You’ll work to clear revenue targets in a high-performance team, with genuine progression and support.

Where it goes: The Executive Recruitment Consultant role has a defined path to Managing Consultant and Head of Section, based on performance and leadership. By year three, six-figure total earnings are realistic for high performers.

What you get:

• Competitive base plus a market-leading uncapped commission scheme, up to 50%.
• A share of the £100,000 company bonus pool.
• Quarterly milestone bonuses.
• Equity in the business.
• An electric supercar for a year when you bill £1m in a single year.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including private medical and dental insurance.
• 25 days holiday, plus your birthday off, increasing with progression.
• Flexible working options.

We’ve raised over £34,000 for charity and plant a tree for every placement made through our partnership with Treeapp. We believe a business should stand for more than revenue alone.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a workplace that values diversity, promotes equality, and fosters inclusion.

Based at Ocean Way, Southampton. In-person role.

If you’ve read this far and thought that’s me, we’d like to hear from you.