Executive Assistant Recruitment Contracts Consultant

Founded in 2015, BluZinc are looking for a brilliant part Assistant to the CEO and part Recruiter / Researcher / Resourcer / Executive Search / Recruitment Consultant. This is a remote based job opening for our boutique talent acquisition and selection consultancy, growing based on exceptional performance results over the last 4 years; in response to client and candidate demand.

Most of our clients have awesome digital marketing and eCommerce operations and technology teams, with head offices near Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Miami, Isle of Man, Durban, London and other cities. Client contacts include CEO, COO, CMO, CTO, CFO, VPHR, Senior Managers of small (under $100MM ARR in the USA), rapidly expanding, successful B2C consumer companies in health, wellness, fitness, food supplements, functional beverages, herbs, nutrition, nutraceuticals, organic skincare, fashion, and B2B eLearning.

Around 70% of this role is supporting recruitment consultancy sales, service, business development, candidate acquisition and selection, to help the CEO scale who will bring on more clients, jobs and then build out the internal BluZinc team of recruiters. This role could become General / Operations Manager or you will in the future help hire that type of person and move into a full time EA / PA type focus.

To be considered an ideal applicant, we need your experience, abilities, knowledge, goals, interests and aspirations to include most of:

• Support to the CEO and be a recruiter, ensuring that the clients he manages are being serviced, experienced in customer sales & service, digital marketing, operations, people, process, procedures, digital technology (including Google Workplace).
• Be point of contact for suppliers, affiliates, partners, reception, meeting management, travel, events, data, analytics, CRM, compliance, training, recruiting, HR, finance, credit, accounts.
• A good understanding of Digital Marketing, Media, Communications, Online Shops, eCommerce, Operations and comfortable with modern digital HR / recruitment marketing technology for sourcing and managing business.
• Effective in sales, relationship management, rapport building, listening, questioning, persuasion, influencing, negotiating and always learning or open to coaching.
• If you are an experienced new business Marketing, eCommerce, or Operations recruiter with client contact relationships in funded start-ups or small, medium size growing companies, you can manage your own clients and be paid full commission and bonuses as per a Recruitment Consultant.
• Knowledge of winning, developing and delivering with repeat business in recruitment or marketing / advertising / digital agency services or D2C eCommerce consumer brand.
• Headhunting, publishing adverts, emails, calls, interviews, managing the candidate relationships, ATS process, lead generation, marketing etc while being coached over several months on how to develop your own small client portfolio of high quality relationships.
• Contingency or retained Search and Selection services for Executive Recruitment, either confidential or client paid dual branded advertised selection.
• High levels of emotional intelligence, empathy, rapport building, intelligent, critical thinking, initiative, competitive winner, amazing planning, prioritising and organising skills.
• You are an excellent networker, charismatic, proactive in client and/or candidate development, self confident, self motivated, aware of integrated advertising, sales and marketing.
• Assessment and selection, accurate, objective judgment, to ensure conversion to long term client/candidate culture fit and sustainable teams in profitable companies.

Our busiest operational times are UK afternoon and some early evenings due to many USA clients conducting Zoom interviews with potential candidates for our clients. We rarely work beyond UK 7pm except for an emergency or when great things happen like managing offers and acceptances for new placements.

At present our main management weekly meeting is on a Wednesday and a sales meeting on Thursday. 2.1/1st Class University degree or equivalent / similar caliber. Excellent communication skills in all mediums and formats including Business level English fluency.

We are a creative team, focused on quality, for constructive, productive and enjoyable experiences with everyone we work with. Your career with us can be focused around resourcing candidates for a senior consultant or end to end on your own customer portfolio and/or team management or exec support while always contributing to fee earning with exceptional prospects and rewards.

For more insight to our brand, values, services, clients, jobs, talent and culture search online for: BluZinc and apply ASAP!