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Graduate Trainee Consultant

Employer
Michael Page Sales
Location
England, Hertfordshire, St. Albans
Salary
£20000 - £28000 per annum + Uncapped quarterly bonuses
Closing date
20 Feb 2017

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Business Sector
Non Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Sales

Job Details



In this Trainee Recruitment position, you will proactively reach out and position recruitment solutions with your commercial acumen and quick thinking coming to use when pitching for new business and developing accounts


Client Details

Businesses that partner with Page Group come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one solution works for all. Your knowledge of the recruitment and specifically Accounting and Financial markets combined with your communication skills and sales abilities will help to shape how new and existing business grow. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you will provide Page Group with great client service, building relationships and accounts with a designated geographical area. In this Trainee Graduate Consultant you anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Page key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their businesses are structured in the future

Description

To our customers, you are the face of Page Group. You will be required to listen to your customer's needs, understand the details of individual vacancies and explore and uncover business opportunities. Working with your customer, you set the vision and the strategy of their job search. You work with a highly engaged team and bring creativity to grow and transform the business.

Supplementing your core role, you will participate in a developmental program which offers world-class training, equipping you with the business, analytical and leadership skills needed to be successful at Page Group. You'll work with a wide variety of clients across numerous sectors, developing a strong network and a deep understanding of our services and customers. This role is based in the St Albans office

Profile

Responsibilities of the Trainee Graduate Consultant position;

* Deliver against targets, while prioritising and delivering an outstanding recruitment service to clients
* Implement creative ways to improve our customer relationships
* Communicate with customers proactively, via phone, face to face meetings and email with these role being telephone based and require a high level of tenacity and resilience to reach clients and customers effectively
* Work closely in a consultative role with customers and clients in a 360 degree recruitment consultant position
Minimum qualifications

* Degree or equivalent practical experience and will consider applicants with a great level of commercial acumen and potential as full training is provided

Preferred qualifications

* Experience or interest in sales, recruitment, account management, or consulting.
* Demonstrated experience in achieving a set goal
* Interest in working against assigned targets
* Proven ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects at a time while paying strict attention to detail.
* Proactive, independent worker with the demonstrated capacity to lead, motivate and work well with others
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Job Offer

This Trainee Graduate Consultant position offers an individual market leading training to become a Senior Recruitment Consultant and progress through our structured career path that runs as a meritocracy.

Page Group are a global leading recruitment consultancy and therefore offer competitive packages along with great benefits with Offices in St Albans where this role will be based.

Company

Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.

Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!

Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us

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