Associate Consultant - Broking, Claims & Underwriting
Graduate job London (Greater London) HR / Training
Job description
The Eames Consulting Group is a market leading executive recruitment firm, identifying and delivering strategic solutions to the Banking, Insurance and Professional Services markets.
Established in 2002, we are a global recruitment consultancy who connects specialist talent to leading employers. With offices based in London, Zurich, Hong Kong and Singapore we are able to identify and deliver the best available talent for leading employers and look to work in partnership with those clients to ensure they receive a premium level of service. For clients in search of local or international talent we offer search and contingent recruitment solutions on a permanent and interim basis.
The Broking, Claims & Underwriting Contingent Search team has experienced rapid growth over the last 18 months and as a result of this we are keen to recruit a high-caliber Associate Consultant who will, in time, become a market-specialist in their area.
From the off-set you will be given full exposure to handling candidates, which will include attending candidate meetings with Consultants. There will also be opportunities to attend client meetings with Consultants to pitch for assignments. You will work to a full 12-month development plan in order to progress to Consultant at which point you will manage your own portfolio of assignments with specific clients.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Name gathering utilising web-based and telephone research, including database mining techniques and networking, to generate candidates for contingent assignments, and to build qualified candidate pools
- Build upon our client and candidate database, ensuring all records are maintained and updated on Profile, including full sourcing details and any industry news or market developments
- Interview candidates over the telephone
- Document and report intelligence back to consultants
- Following up with candidates and developing good working relationships
- Introducing candidates to consultants
- Work with consultants to identify business development activities, proactively passing on relevant information
- Entering candidate information and interview notes on database
- Generate market intelligence relating to competitor activities
- Inform all divisions of relevant market information
- Activity reporting within your respective business area
- Accountable for achieving personal and financial targets
- Deliver on assignments within agreed SLAs
Key Requirements
- Educated to degree-level
- Out-going personality
- Enjoys working in a structured, targeted environment
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills
- The ability to project professionalism and personality, both over the phone and face to face
- Highly self-motivated, organised and be able to manage own time
- Excellent client and candidate facing skills
- Flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of the changing market, customers and the business
- Displays a confident manner, both in person and on the telephone
- Strive to achieve timescales and deadlines
- Focus and push to achieve targets and results despite any opposition or antagonism
- Work to a high specification in order to improve and maintain quality.
- Enjoy the challenge of problem solving and come up with well thought through practical solutions
- Meticulous and tenacious work ethic
- Demonstrate and work by the Eames Values
- Strong IT skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Creative writing skills as the ability to produce marketing documents and adverts
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and to tight deadlines
- Varied out-of-work hobbies and interests
Desired profile
The Eames Consulting Group is a market leading executive recruitment firm, identifying and delivering strategic solutions to the Banking, Insurance and Professional Services markets.
Established in 2002, we are a global recruitment consultancy who connects specialist talent to leading employers. With offices based in London, Zurich, Hong Kong and Singapore we are able to identify and deliver the best available talent for leading employers and look to work in partnership with those clients to ensure they receive a premium level of service. For clients in search of local or international talent we offer search and contingent recruitment solutions on a permanent and interim basis.
The Broking, Claims & Underwriting Contingent Search team has experienced rapid growth over the last 18 months and as a result of this we are keen to recruit a high-caliber Associate Consultant who will, in time, become a market-specialist in their area.
From the off-set you will be given full exposure to handling candidates, which will include attending candidate meetings with Consultants. There will also be opportunities to attend client meetings with Consultants to pitch for assignments. You will work to a full 12-month development plan in order to progress to Consultant at which point you will manage your own portfolio of assignments with specific clients.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Name gathering utilising web-based and telephone research, including database mining techniques and networking, to generate candidates for contingent assignments, and to build qualified candidate pools
- Build upon our client and candidate database, ensuring all records are maintained and updated on Profile, including full sourcing details and any industry news or market developments
- Interview candidates over the telephone
- Document and report intelligence back to consultants
- Following up with candidates and developing good working relationships
- Introducing candidates to consultants
- Work with consultants to identify business development activities, proactively passing on relevant information
- Entering candidate information and interview notes on database
- Generate market intelligence relating to competitor activities
- Inform all divisions of relevant market information
- Activity reporting within your respective business area
- Accountable for achieving personal and financial targets
- Deliver on assignments within agreed SLAs
Key Requirements
- Educated to degree-level
- Out-going personality
- Enjoys working in a structured, targeted environment
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills
- The ability to project professionalism and personality, both over the phone and face to face
- Highly self-motivated, organised and be able to manage own time
- Excellent client and candidate facing skills
- Flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of the changing market, customers and the business
- Displays a confident manner, both in person and on the telephone
- Strive to achieve timescales and deadlines
- Focus and push to achieve targets and results despite any opposition or antagonism
- Work to a high specification in order to improve and maintain quality.
- Enjoy the challenge of problem solving and come up with well thought through practical solutions
- Meticulous and tenacious work ethic
- Demonstrate and work by the Eames Values
- Strong IT skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Creative writing skills as the ability to produce marketing documents and adverts
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and to tight deadlines
- Varied out-of-work hobbies and interests