Introduction
Are you passionate about connecting talented individuals with rewarding career opportunities?
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, will help to elevate your career.
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, if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you, tell us.
Contract Energy Consultant (Offshore Wind)
As more and more investment is allocated towards greener forms of energy around the world, the demand for engineering professionals is boosted once more.
Our team is delivering recruitment solutions to offshore wind markets in the UK and across Europe. Our track record of finding and placing professionals who match our clients’ needs, has enabled us to achieve ‘preferred supplier’ and 'sole supplier’ status with some of the most well-known and innovative companies in this industry.
If you have experience within contract recruitment and want to join a growing, collaborative team with excellent career progression opportunities then this could be the role for you.
Responsibilities:
- Win long-term new business opportunities, or projects of work and have a targeted business development strategy, with a tailored approach for each client.
- Build a strong candidate & client referral network.
- Have a thorough knowledge of your client companies (their business, industry, culture & environment) & use within your interactions to develop formal, long-term client agreements.
- Develop client relationships through upselling and cross-selling across the business.
- Engage with client stakeholders in different business areas & at different levels, proactively seeking out opportunity.
- Engage in conversations outside of transactional recruitment.
- Play a role in progressing clients up the value chain (to CDM, Enterprise or Solutions), working alongside internal colleagues.
- Arrange & attend client meetings independently, knowing when to involve others.
- Drive & recommend innovative candidate attraction strategies.
- Advocate & encourage full use of the CRM.
- Build technical/market knowledge & a relevant customer network
- Analyse & make predictions based on trends in the talent market.
- Engage in discussions around recruitment legislation and trend
- Assist junior team members; advising on both your technical & recruitment expertise.
- From time to time (as directed by your manager) support new consultants through at-desk coaching.
- Play a key role in the delivery of team goals & objectives.
Key Skills:
- Working knowledge of a contract recruitment desk
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to strategically plan sales & client development
- Ability to build positive customer relationships
- Results orientated
- Able to lead by example through sharing of information and supporting both the team and manager to build a positive team spirit.
- Able to persuade and influence.
What we offer:
- Excellent Growth and Development Opportunities
- Industry leading training
- Apprenticeship opportunities
- Free onsite parking
- Competitive basic salary
- Personal flexible benefits to meet each employees needs
- 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. Our recruitment process will include a combination of telephone, video and face to face interviews for you to showcase your talents and potential. We offer reasonable adjustments to accommodate the needs of our applicants, such as providing interview questions in advance, offering written formats, changing interview times, structure, or settings, and arranging office visits before the interview. This list is not exhaustive, and we are open to considering any additional adjustments to support our candidates.
"I've told any agency I speak to that if you want to be world class compare yourself to Gattaca as they have set the bar." – Safran, RPO Client.
