Job Description:

Transport Recruitment ConsultantBirmingham | Full-Time, Permanent | Competitive Salary DOE + Uncapped Commission

Are you looking to develop your career within transport recruitment? Pertemps is an award-winning independent recruitment company seeking an experienced and commercially driven Transport Recruitment Consultant to join our hugely successful and busy Birmingham-based Transport Division.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about recruitment, sales and the transport industry, with the opportunity to build strong relationships with both clients and candidates while growing your own desk.

The package includes an attractive salary, OTE potential of up to £35k within your first year, plus an unrivalled commission structure which is reviewed annually thereafter.

You will work with a broad range of transport clients, taking responsibility for servicing existing accounts, developing new business and supplying high-quality candidates across the driving and transport sector. Customer service will be a key part of the role, ensuring consistently high standards for both our clients and workers.

Being one of the largest independent agencies in the UK, with over 200 locations nationally and a turnover in excess of £800 million, Pertemps is truly a market leader in the staffing industry. We are committed to the mentoring, training and development of every employee within the business.

As a Transport Recruitment Consultant, you will:

• Build and develop strong relationships with new and existing transport clients.
• Talk to and influence decision makers at all levels.
• Develop new business opportunities through telesales, networking and face-to-face meetings.
• Sell recruitment solutions and service packages to transport and logistics businesses.
• Source, interview and independently select suitable candidates for transport vacancies.
• Manage a high-volume pool of drivers and transport professionals.
• Handle inbound queries from prospective and existing workers.
• Manage key transport accounts and provide a consistently high level of customer service.
• Coordinate candidate onboarding, compliance and availability.
• Work closely with clients to understand their staffing requirements and provide effective recruitment solutions
• Support tender processes and client presentations where required.
• Manage rotational out-of-hours/on-call responsibilities.
• Positively promote the Pertemps brand within the local transport and business community.

The successful Transport Recruitment Consultant will become part of a focused and well-established team of recruiters who are hungry for success and committed to increasing Pertemps' market share across the Birmingham transport sector.

Your package will also include excellent benefits such as a company car after the qualifying period, free car parking, 24/7 out-of-hours support, an unrivalled commission structure and pension scheme, along with eligibility for the company share scheme after the qualifying period.

The ideal Transport Recruitment Consultant will have:

• Previous experience within transport recruitment, recruitment or a sales environment.
• A strong understanding of the transport sector is desirable.
• Confidence speaking to clients and candidates over the telephone.
• A commercially driven and target-focused approach.
• Experience developing new business and building long-term client relationships.
• A tenacious attitude towards sales and business development.
• Ideally, experience upselling services and working confidently 'off-script'.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to identify opportunities and convert them into new business.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple workloads.
• The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• A good judge of character with strong candidate assessment skills.
• IT literate, with basic knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Comfortable building rapport and creating new client accounts both over the phone and face-to-face.

The Transport recruitment market in Birmingham is thriving, creating huge opportunities for motivated individuals who can build strong relationships, win new business, deliver exceptional customer service and ultimately close sales.

If you are commercially minded, driven to succeed and interested in developing your career within Transport Recruitment, please email your CV to (url removed).