Principal Recruitment Consultant

Principal Consultant

Investigo Recruitment

Flexible Basic Salary + commission

London (hybrid, 4.5 day work week

In this role you will be a key part of our Investigo Private Recruitment Equity Practice. We pride ourselves on being a holistic talent solution provider for Private Equity and their portfolio companies.

Our expertise lies in delivering the right talent to drive successful value-creation initiatives and maximise returns for investors throughout the entire investment lifecycle. In this division we currently support clients across the following areas:

• Operating Partner hires- Build full operating partner and value creation teams suited to each fund’s investment thematic, governance model and portfolio engagement style.
• Value Creation on demand- Provide ex strategy consultants to design and deliver value creation strategies and define their associated transformation pillars
• C-Suite Leadership-Exec search capability to provide perm or interim leaders across CEO,COO CIO, CFO in to PE backed portfolios
• Transformation Delivery- interim consultants to lead and execute against VCP agendas and their associated transformation programmes across: carve-out, post-merger integration, cost-out & technology enabled change.

We have a strong track record in delivery large programmes of work to support our clients execute on their value creation agendas.

Previous projects include:

• Large Cap backed FMCG -Carve out. Provided a team of 40 plus to lead the business and tech separation and transition to new processes and systems to stand up the new organisation po
• Mid cap backed manufacturer -Integration. Stood up a team of 15 to delivery post merger integration as part of our clients buy and build strategy
• Mid cap backed FMCG- Technology transformation- Team of 10 to deployed to implement a new ERP solution

The Role:

This is a Principal Recruitment Consultant position where you will manage the full candidate and client life cycle from end to end. You will be joining our Transformation Recruitment team where you will harness a network of experienced transformation leaders and project/programme specialists that can drive & support value creation plans and associated transformations on behalf of Private Equity businesses and their portfolio companies.

• Sales: as part of the 360 Sales team you will be responsible for the end-to-end sales process; Research and market mapping, identifying customers experiences the challenges our solution solves, educating target customers on our proposition and approach, and consulting internal and external stakeholders to ensure an effective solution.
• Group solutions: You will be accountable for understanding our group solutions offering and being able to spot opportunity to cross sell other teams and/or brands. A large focus of this will partnering with our Consultancy brand; Definia to help shape how our customers deliver Transformation within a capability as a service model via a fixed price or T&M framework
• Business Growth: You will be working closely with the leadership team as the company scales. This means you’ll be responsible for; mentoring team members, contributing to strategic decision making, and taking ownership for process excellence. Be a key influencer in thought leadership within your market and support targeted marketing and events in your area.

What we are looking for:

About You

• End to End recruitment lifecycle management, ideally 5 years or more or 360 recruitment experience ideally within Private Equity recruitment and/or Transformation. Ability to build and nurture senior relationships
• Sales Strategy: you will be working closely with the leadership team as the division scales. This means you’ll be responsible for; mentoring team members, contributing to strategic decision making, and taking ownership for process excellence and developing thought leadership and brand marketing.
• Solutions selling: You will have previous experience of solution-selling: identifying problem areas and shaping strategic solutions to technical and business leaders ideally within Funds and their associated Portfolio companies.
• Account Development: Ability to build and expand on key client relationships and cross sell Investigo’ s other Brands/Teams to maximise revenue and our service offering within a client.

Career Development and Training:

We have a dedicated learning and development function that provide a tailored development plan to support you in your career progression; whether that be into People management or to excel as an individual contributor. You will have access to:

• 121 mentoring
• External leadership coaching
• Psychometric testing
• Elevate Management training
• Formal personal development courses

Benefits:

• A market leading commission structure of up to 42.5%
• Commission earned from passed business
• Hybrid working with our flexible working policy
• Bi Yearly overseas incentive trips
• Private health insurance, eye tests, discounted gym memberships and more
• Enhanced parental benefits
• Wellbeing initiatives, from Pilates sessions, running club
• Quarterly and Yearly events as well as adhoc socials
• Wellbeing and Engagement committee