Trainee Sales Consultant

For over 35 years, Gattaca has been helping clients across the world grow by solving their biggest talent challenges. Every day we aim to deliver a service that is so trusted that our clients, candidates, colleagues, and suppliers recommend us without hesitation. It's our vision to become the STEM talent partner of choice, and we need you to help us get there.

At Gattaca, our values are the backbone of everything we do: Trust, Professionalism, Ambition, and FUN. This, paired with the tools and industry leading training we can provide, can give you what you need to be our next recruitment superstar.

Gattaca is dedicated to helping our people to realise their full potential. We understand the value a diverse workforce brings to every workplace and in everything we do, we are committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and accessibility. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage you to consider a career with Gattaca

Recruitment Consultant.

In a rapidly evolving engineering and technology space the Defence sector is investing heavily to maximise the opportunity of saving the lives of our armed forces. Safer equipment and better intelligence helps our country achieve a more strategic approach on threats without having to endanger armed forces personnel. Our clients provide the technology advances and equipment to the Ministry of Defence and we support them to find the best talent in the market to develop the new technologies and deliver their projects.

As our recruitment consultant, you will have the technical expertise and market awareness to identify, open, and develop new contract market opportunities in a lively, upbeat sales environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new business prospects via marketing calls, client visits, company presentations and networking at client events.
• Be able to identify potential candidates to fulfil clients' requirements within the market utilising effective candidate attraction strategies.
• Responsible for ensuring Gattaca plc's penetration of new accounts by delivering the highest levels of quality and customer satisfaction.
• Utilising extensive and innovative candidate attraction strategies that are relevant to the current requirement. This may include advertising vacancies on job boards, developing a referral network, exhausting the existing database and demonstrate excellent head-hunting skills and thus build a strong candidate referral network and talent pools.
• Build and share technical and market awareness of your sector with colleagues, clients and candidates.
• Responsible for working with the Manager in achieving team and personal objectives.
• Demonstrate a commitment to candidate care and database development.
• Meet required Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and Service Level Agreements (SLA's) as set by management
• Meet financial targets as set by management.
• Build and expand your network of Clients and Candidates to ensure you become the 'go to' specialist sales consultant for your industry.
• Identify opportunity for continuous / process improvement
• Build relationships with key internal stakeholders across Sales and Group Support

Key skills:

• Excellent communication skill
• Self-starter, pro-active and driven
• Highly motivated individual who displays initiative, particularly within sales and networking.
• Conscientious
• Strong rapport and relationship building skills
• Demonstrate ability to multitask, and be creative
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Ability to think laterally and identify opportunities for cross-selling
• Ability to work in a way to demonstrate Gattaca plc's core values

What we offer:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Excellent Growth and Development Opportunities
• Industry leading training
• Apprenticeship opportunities
• Competitive basic salary + commission
• Free on site parking
• Incentives, including team all-inclusive holidays!
  
  Next steps
  

Upload your CV and if we think there is a match, a member of our Talent Hub will be in touch and arrange a phone call to discuss your options and answer any questions you might have.