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Senior Recruitment Consultant - Life Sciences and Pharma

Remote or Hybrid with offices in London, Manchester and Portsmouth

£Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits, Bonus Scheme & Culture.

We are a specialist recruitment consultancy who work with some of the world’s largest Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Life Science companies. We are part of Compass Recruitment Solutions, an award-winning group of companies that invests heavily into staff-development and progression (Gold standard investors in people) and we have been rated “World-Class” for Customer Service.

The culture of the company is friendly, fun, collaborative, and supportive. We have a great brand, loyal client partnerships, an innovative team, and a great reputation within our sector.

We don’t have KPIs around activity – instead we focus on quality and effectiveness and trust you to manage your desk and pipeline. We will support you in your professional development and provide opportunities for you to progress your career with us, both within Carrot and the wider group.

The Life Science and Pharmaceutical sector remains a very attractive industry to work in and with over 18 years’ experience supporting the sector, our reputation has gone from strength to strength and we’re the go-to consultancy for many of our clients.

Working for Carrot you will receive…

* Flexibility around working patterns.

* Autonomy – we will support you, but you won’t be micromanaged and we trust you to manage your desk and workload.

* Remote or Hybrid working

* Opportunities to progress both within Carrot and the wider group

* 25 days holiday which increases to 28 days with service.

* Additional 2 bonus days off for achieving targets

* Option to buy or sell 3 days of annual leave per year

* Private healthcare scheme

Additional Perks:

* Quarterly team rewards, company activity afternoons, and meals out for hitting quarter targets.

* Monthly posh lunch and afternoon off for consultants who achieve target.

* Early finish on the last Friday of every month.

* Extra Day annual leave and cash incentive each month for achieving “Consultant of the Month”

* Regular social events with the wider team.

The Role:

You will be responsible for developing new client relationships in your dedicated sector within the Life Science, Pharma or Biotech industry and have the opportunity to generate new business across the UK, EU and US Markets. As well as establishing these new relationships you’ll also be maximising opportunities with our existing client base.

This is a traditional 360 role where you will be generating assignments to work and manging the full recruitment process while offering a first-class service to your candidates and clients.

We pride ourselves on our consultative approach and adding true value to our clients recruitment process so you’ll operate in a similar style to ensure we maintain our reputation as one of the most knowledgeable recruitment agencies in our sector.

What Kind of Person Are We Looking For?

We are looking for proven recruitment consultant in the Pharma or Life Science industry. You’ll have strong candidate and client development skills and you know what its takes to be successful in recruitment.

A strong work ethic, proactive and focused approach with a good sense of humour will ensure you fit in to our team and culture.

Perhaps you’re working in a role that is heavily KPI focused and you’re looking for a bit more autonomy? Or you’re back working in the office and you’d prefer a remote or hybrid set up? Or you’re simply interested in joining a recruitment business with a great culture, excellent reputation and rated ‘world class’ for customer service?

What Next?

Hit ‘Apply’ or contact Anna directly at Compass/Carrot Recruitment.

Please note: due to the high volume of applications received we are only able to respond to applications that meet our criteria. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days please assume you have not been selected for interview on this occasion