Recruitment Consultant - Private Equity
hybrid - London City
About the Company
Opportunity to work for a specialist executive level recruitment firm partnering with private equity investors and their portfolio companies to deliver CFO, C-suite and board-level talent across the UK and Europe.
About the Role
We’re looking for the first Recruitment Consultant hire. This isn’t a typical 360 recruitment role. It’s an opportunity to work directly alongside the founder, learn a high-value private equity search model, build your own specialist vertical, and play a key role in shaping the future of the business. If you’re ambitious, entrepreneurial and looking for a genuine platform to accelerate your career, keep reading.
Responsibilities
- Executive and senior leadership appointments across private equity-backed and high-growth businesses
- CFO, Finance Leadership, C-Suite and Board-level mandates
- Retained and search-led assignments
- Business development, client engagement and search delivery
- You’ll be involved throughout the entire hiring lifecycle:
- Client briefing and search strategy
- Market mapping and talent identification
- Candidate assessment and shortlisting
- Stakeholder management
- Offer negotiation and closing
This is a genuinely client-facing role where you’ll build relationships, not just source candidates.
Qualifications
- Recruitment or executive search experience
- Experience recruiting senior finance, leadership or specialist hires
- Exposure to private equity-backed, investor-backed or high-growth businesses is highly desirable
- Proven ability to build relationships with senior stakeholders
- Strong commercial instincts and business development capability
- Self-motivated, organised and comfortable working with autonomy
Required Skills
- Competitive and ambitious
- Personable and relationship-driven
- Commercially sharp
- Curious about business and investing
- Comfortable operating with senior executives and investors
- Motivated by building something meaningful rather than simply chasing the next salary increase
Preferred Skills
- Retained search experience
- Exposure to CFO, C-suite, Product, Technology or GTM leadership hiring
- Strong billing history in competitive markets
- Experience operating in multiple recruitment environments or markets
Pay range and compensation package
Competitive basic salary. Highly attractive commission structure. Potential earnings of up to ~50% of generated revenue (well above traditional recruitment models). Future profit-share and longer-term participation opportunities as the business grows.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We’re looking for people who back themselves. Who This Opportunity Is Perfect For: You may be a successful recruiter billing well but feeling capped by your current environment, working on mid-level roles and wanting to move into executive search and private equity, frustrated by bureaucracy and lack of ownership, or looking for a genuine entrepreneurial opportunity with meaningful earning potential.
