At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and build a new specialist division in healthcare or scientific recruitment.
- Company: Scale Up Search, a dynamic recruitment business with a focus on exceptional talent.
- Benefits: Highly competitive salary, uncapped bonuses, equity potential, and flexible working.
- Other info: Join a collaborative culture with clear progression into senior leadership.
- Why this job: Create and shape your own division with significant autonomy and support.
- Qualifications: Proven recruitment experience and strong leadership skills in relevant sectors.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Scale Up Search is a specialist recruitment business built around a simple philosophy: exceptional people, exceptional markets, and a long-term approach to growth. Since launching, we have developed a reputation for delivering high-quality search and recruitment solutions across specialist sectors, partnering with ambitious businesses and helping talented professionals progress their careers.
As we continue our growth journey, we are seeking an experienced Division Director to build and lead a new specialist division within either: Healthcare, Life Sciences, Scientific or Technical Markets. This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial recruitment leader to create, shape and scale a business unit with significant autonomy and support.
The Opportunity
- Defining and executing the market strategy
- Building and developing client relationships
- Delivering retained and contingent recruitment assignments
- Building and mentoring a team as the division grows
- Establishing Scale Up Search as a recognised specialist within your chosen market
- Driving revenue growth and profitability
This role offers genuine ownership and the opportunity to become a key part of our future leadership team.
What We're Looking For
- A successful recruitment background within a consumer, healthcare, life sciences, scientific or technical sector
- A proven track record of business development and client acquisition
- Experience managing a recruitment desk with strong commercial performance
- Leadership capability, whether through formal management or mentoring experience
- Entrepreneurial mindset and ambition to build a market-leading division
- Strong relationship-building and networking skills
- High levels of professionalism, integrity and accountability
Why Join Scale Up Search?
- Opportunity to build and lead your own specialist division
- Significant autonomy and influence over strategy
- Established infrastructure, systems and operational support
- Collaborative, high-performance culture
- Clear progression into senior leadership
- Competitive salary and uncapped bonus structure
- Potential long-term equity or profit-share opportunities for the right individual
- Flexible and hybrid working environment
Location: We are ideally seeking someone based in or around Harrogate or North Leeds, with regular attendance in our office and flexibility for client meetings across the UK.
Interested? If you're an experienced recruiter looking for the opportunity to create, lead and scale a specialist division within a growing business, we'd love to have a confidential conversation.
Division Director in Harrogate employer: Scale Up Search
Scale Up Search is an exceptional employer that offers a unique opportunity for entrepreneurial recruitment leaders to build and lead their own specialist divisions in a collaborative and high-performance culture. With significant autonomy, a competitive salary, uncapped bonuses, and potential equity opportunities, employees are empowered to shape their careers while benefiting from established infrastructure and support. Located in the vibrant area of Harrogate or North Leeds, this role provides flexibility and the chance to make a meaningful impact in the healthcare, life sciences, scientific, or technical markets.
