The Company
A high-growth STEM recruitment business is seeking a Learning & Development Lead to join their business. This is a really exciting position for someone with a passion for people development; the client is ideally seeking an ex-recruiter with at least a minimum of 6 years in an L&D capacity. Please note if you do not have recruitment experience your application may not be considered for this role.
Key Responsibilities
The candidate will own the performance and development agenda for multiple cohorts within the sales organisation, including:
New sales hires (trainee to principal level)
- Driving time to first placement and supporting sales leaders to deliver speed to competency, aligned to both industry best practice and internal standards.
Trainee consultants:
- Designing and running a structured, Academy-style programme for non-experienced hires.
Junior and senior consultants:
- Delivering ongoing upskilling and capability development, aligned with sales leadership priorities and commercial objectives.
Sales leaders:
- Supporting leadership development and contributing to succession planning for future team growth.
Aspiring leaders:
- Delivering a structured Aspiring Leaders programme to prepare future leaders to manage and hire across multiple experience levels.
Skills & Experience
- Strong experience across recruitment models including contingent & retained, permanent & contract.
- Deep understanding of the full recruitment lifecycle and related sales processes, including: Business development and lead generation, Client mapping and job qualification, Retainers, exclusivity, and sales conversion metrics.
- Proven ability to coach recruiters to consistently high-performance standards and improve financial output.
- Understanding of international recruitment and regional nuances across key global markets.
- Experience designing and delivering trainee or graduate academy programmes.
- Ability to balance hands-on coaching with longer-term development strategies across multiple cohorts.
- Confidence delivering development at scale, from company-wide sessions to 1:1 coaching.
- Track record of achieving measurable performance improvements across large, diverse sales populations, including increased revenue per head.
Benefits
- Salary circa £85,000 based on experience
- Performance based bonus
- Fast-growing team
- Ability to lead and be autonomous
- Brilliant exposure to a high-growth team
This role is largely office-based, reflecting the importance placed on face-to-face coaching and development, while allowing flexibility when certain tasks are better completed away from a fast-paced sales floor.