Senior Recruitment Consultant

Role: Senior Recruitment Consultant (contract/freelance/interim recruiting)

Experience level: 2 - 5 years; Consultant - Senior Consultant

Earnings: £55K - £70K+ and Equity options*

Location: Remote-first working, with up to two days per month in our London office

Project Blackbook helps management consultancies access the top 3% of independent associates—and we’re one of the fastest-growing start-ups in our space right now. We’re hiring for a commercially minded recruitment professional with proven contract recruitment experience to support our growth.

This is a true 360 role, combining business development, client engagement, and hands-on delivery—with a focus on placing contractors into some of the UK's leading clients. With consistent quarter over quarter double digit growth for the past 18 months - we're seeing high demand for our market offering. We want to maintain our high-quality delivery while continuing to expand our client base.

Apply if you’d like to find out more.

• Win and grow new client accounts using our structured BD playbook—plus your own commercial creativity—to build a healthy pipeline and close longer-cycle opportunities
• Offer strategic guidence to clients: translate client needs into clear, compelling role profiles across management consultancies and direct client environments
• Own the full contract recruitment lifecycle (Inside & Outside IR35)—from sourcing and outreach through candidate management, client partnering, offer/contracting, and post-placement care
• Help us scale! By collaborating across the team, improving processes, and taking real ownership for outcomes and delivery quality

We're looking for true entreprenurial A-players who can help with our growth and thrive in a fast-growing company.

Strong business development ability/potential:

• Ability to work through structured approaches to win new clients
• Some experience using HubSpot and other systems in line with best practice
• Experienced LinkedIn user
• Experience working with longer sales cycles and SaaS environments
• Has an existing starting network (nice to have)

Knowledge of the Management Consulting sector:

• Understands core competencies, sectors, and typical gradings, and can translate client requirements into role profiles
• Comfortable working with both consultancies and direct clients

Knowledge of contract recruitment:

• Experience delivering contract recruitment, including a baseline understanding of contract terms, IR35, day-rate processes, and contractor company setup
• Happy to be hands-on and do what is required to find solutions for clients

Track record:

• Able to demonstrate results in this space and quantify performance with numbers
• Can show consistency in at least one role - i.e. not switched roles too much

Soft skills / motivations:

• Interested in growing a business
• Team player
• Demonstrates strong agency and proactivity, while also being open to guidance on internal processes and suggesting improvements
• Intellectually curious

• OTEs £55K - £70K+
• Highly competitive uncapped commission structure
• Potential for equity options after 1 year depending on performance
• Remote-first working, with occasional working our London office as required/desired
• Flexible working hours
• 26 days of annual leave + public holidays
• Work abroad up to 4 weeks per year
• Off-site strategy sessions in Europe