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What we offer
- Starting at 30 days holiday (including bank holidays) - add +1 extra per calendar year to a max of 35
- Ability to earn up to 6 bonus holiday days per annum, just by hitting quarterly targets
- Christmas week off every year
- Private Health Insurance
- Health Shield cash back and discount scheme (includes allowances for sports massages, acupuncture, dental and lots more)
- Life Assurance
A bit about us....
Blue Pelican has been around for 20 years. Founded by 2 partners on the basis of ‘recruitment done better’. Since then we’ve grown and evolved, driven by the changing face of recruitment and that of the dynamic markets we’re established within.
We support businesses through a number of specialist divisions (Legal, Marketing, Pharmaceutical, Public Sector, Microsoft Technology), each headed by Managers who report to the Board.
At our core are our people, some who have been with us for 15+ years, and have helped shape our vision, strategy and culture. Each highly knowledgeable in their specialist areas and know what it means to offer a ‘professional consultancy service’.
We do all of this in a friendly and informal environment with a culture that is based on honesty, openness, communication and teamwork – with a little bit of banter and fun too.
What the staff say
"When I joined Blue Pelican, I had just moved to the UK and left my family and friends back home in Australia. Lucky for me though, joining Blue Pelican has allowed me to gain a new group of family and friends in my workplace. The positive, professional and determined culture of Blue Pelican gives me the drive to do my best and continue to learn more every day. Blue Pelican take an ethical and open approach to recruitment which is recognised by our clients and candidates. It’s an absolute pleasure to be a Pelican!"
Sarah Smith - Associate Consultant
What the staff say
"I was ready to give up on recruitment at the point I joined Blue Pelican and having been here since 2008 I’ll never work for another recruitment company. It’s a genuinely grown up place to work alongside people who treat you with respect and we strike a great balance between fun and professionalism."
Andy Wise - Managing Consultant
There's more.....
- Corporate Social Responsibility day per year – use it to do something good for the community or that’s close to your heart
- Training plan tailored to develop your skills and capabilities
- Defined career progression plan
- 1/4ly lunches at fantastic restaurants - all expenses paid
- Various incentives and events for both company and individual teams – including iPads, TVs, and trips away to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ibiza, Orlando, Prague and Barcelona among others
Reasons I have worked for Blue Pelican for over 13 years…
- Career development opportunities; have grown from Associate Consultant through to Manager, I’ve achieved career ambitions I never thought possible.
- Treated like an adult; given the freedom to manage my own desk and time in order to meet my targets.
- I have a voice – respected, listened to and feel part of a growing, successful business.
Fundamentally, I love working for a business where you feel valued and looked after.
Kate McDermott – Managing Consultant
Blue Pelican Structure and Promotion Route
Want to join our team?
If you think we could be the right place for you to develop your career, drop us a line.
About You:
Ideally, you will be an experienced 360 Recruiter with the ambition and tenacity and motivation to work in one of our specialist division where market training can be given.You will be confident with relationship management and be able to work to a fast pace with strong prioritisation skills. Business development is key so as well as being a confident negotiator who can remain calm under pressure, you will be target driven and motivated to succeed in your work, demonstrating a strong work ethic. Having a friendly and approachable personality is also essential for this role!
What we can offer you:
- Very competitive salary and benefits package
- Fantastic opportunities for career progression
- Training plan tailored to develop your skills and capabilities
- 1/4ly lunches at fantastic restaurants - expenses paid
- Various incentives and events run regularly for both company and individual teams - these can be both large and small, and have previously included iPads, TV's as well as trips away to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cape Town, Chicago, Ibiza, Orlando, Prague and Barcelona.
** We know leaving an existing employer with a proven desk can be a big move, so we are open to discussing guarantee periods, where appropriate, to make a career move easier.
Current Vacancies
Role: Practice Lead, Data (Recruitment Manager)
Location: Office working twice a week in Tunbridge Wells
Expected income: Year 1 - OTE £80k plus benefits
Year 2 – OTE £100k
What’s unique about this opportunity?
- Fixed percentage commission structure that’s easy to understand, a lot less volatile than typical recruitment agency reward structures
- Pays from £1 with no desk fees
- Opportunity to build and scale your own team
- Huge demand for talent in the data market, so there’s a real need for the services we provide
- We have 20+ years of heritage in this space and a sizable existing client roster to pick up with
- A totally unique team focused approach which is really supportive. We all win together and are rewarded as such. It’s likely you’ve never seen anything like it in the recruitment industry before
- Lots of flexibility in your role. You can deliver the objectives through leading the team and directing the work, opening doors with new clients and building value on those relationships. Or get hands on and dirty with the recruitment itself too
- The OTE is linked to team target. The more the team delivers and grows, the more your OTE does.
About You
You love the chase and the thrill of the hunt.
You’re charismatic, a real people person and see strangers as friends you just haven’t met yet.
You’re not afraid to put yourself out there, and just because someone has a fancy title, it doesn’t stop you picking up the phone and speaking with them like a peer.
You’re a never happier than when you’re chasing down objectives and exceeding them.
You’re smart and savvy. You know how to shape a good deal and can spot the win-win in often complex negotiations with lots of potentially moving parts.
You also know the data industry too – perhaps you’ve recruited a fair bit in your time and know your analytics from your data science, data management from data engineering and what AI, NLP, ML, GCP, AWS and Azure is all about.
You recognise the value of being a team player in how the sum of its parts can become greater than the whole, and can lead, inspire and grow a team of your own.
If this accurately describes you, what’s this role all about?
THE ROLE
Our data recruitment unit has always been one of our most successful. It’s been around since the company’s inception some 20 years ago and has a decent client roster because of it.
You’ll be stepping into a role with a growth agenda behind it. Defining how your team is structured and grows, what specialities you want to open doors in and prioritise efforts behind. Be it research and insight, customer analytics, data science, behavioural insights, experience sciences, decision sciences, etc, etc. It’s really down to you to spot and go after the opportunities. Leveraging our industry reputation to open doors, feed your team with opportunities to deliver to and shape that team for the future.
You’ll also be taking lead on client engagement, and be the escalation point for anything complicated or outside of your team’s knowledge area.
You’ll have latitude to drop into delivery if you want to. Perhaps you land a particularly meaty CDO role and use the opportunity to network with some business leaders and create new clients off the back of it.
Or you may decide your time and efforts to get your team to the desired results is better spent away from delivery and focusing on client strategy, building your unit’s market presence, networking with business leaders. The choice is up to you.
Ultimately your measures of success will be around your team’s performance.
The ambition is for your team to scale quickly in response to the ever-growing client demand generated.
You will be pretty much sector agnostic and able to hunt down and convert business from almost any vertical market which has a demand for data talent, and there’s a lot out there.
We have an upstanding reputation in this industry, and such a deep pool of outstanding data talent known to us. So opening doors shouldn’t be difficult. So long as you take the right approach and are able to come across as credible.
Sounds exciting, right?
TO APPLY
If you think you’ve got what it takes, you can share your Linkedin profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.
Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:
Colin Doree
Head of Recruitment
01892 507122
colin@bluepelican.com
Role: Resourcer, Data, Analytics & Data Science
Location: Tunbridge Wells office twice a week
Salary: £18,000 to £25,000 (DoE) plus commission and benefits
The job of a resourcer is to locate and engage the right talent for a vacancy, in as quick and efficient a manner possible.
You’re the seeker in the a game of global hide and seek. Looking for the best talent to suit a company’s needs. Tools to help you find them include a database of 50k+ people, online databases of millions and professional social media (i.e. Linkedin) of hundreds of millions of people.
Whilst on the surface this sounds simple, it can be a challenge. Especially when there’s so much demand for the same talent. How do you make your message or call the one someone responds to?
It’s a job juggling a lot of balls, constantly looking at solving problems, delivering to deadlines in order to keep clients happy and building your own reputation as someone who knows what they’re doing and can be trusted to get things done successfully.
THE ROLE
You’ll be joining our team and work with an experienced consultant handling all things Data recruitment related. Working on what has always been a high-volume desk with lots of client vacancies to handle and money to be made.
The kind of roles you’ll be supporting on require people with very specialist skills, and the talent in those areas are in incredibly high demand. So to be successful you’ve got to be credible. Great at networking and building relationships with people.
It’s a market which operates at real pace and high salaries. Which means quick turnarounds and deadlines on projects and a constant flow of new requirements given to you which need delivering to.
The team you’ll be joining works across a wide range of clients, including high street retailers, telecoms, digital unicorns, travel giants and big-name agencies.
You’ll be networking with industry specialists, building rapport and relationships in order to effectively create engagement. Looking to gain referrals and recommendations.
Managing candidate experience end to end, ensuring everyone gets a high-quality experience. Delivered with upmost respect and professionalism.
There’s also some client facing aspects to the role too. Managing the recruitment process from CV submissions, gaining feedback, arranging interviews as well as handling offers and onboarding processes.
THE COMPANY
Blue Pelican has been around for 20 years, and one of the best things people enjoy about being a part of the business are the people. It’s always been one of our strengths.
People you enjoy spending time with and who make your work enjoyable because of this.
We’re not a hard KPI environment, we recognise and reward on merit, and people who do well with us tend to really care about what they do and take pride in doing a good job for their clients.
We’re about to embark on some of the biggest investment we’ve done in years. Reinvigorating our brand, digital presence and overhauling our training and onboarding programme to ensure it’s best in class and meets the needs of today’s professional recruiter.
KEY EXPERIENCE
Ideally we are looking for someone with experience of working as a resourcer before. If you’ve got this, you already know what skills you need to demonstrate.
However, we will also consider relevant transferable skills.
There’s a few common traits of good resourcers have, these include:
- Gregarious characters, happy to pick up the phone and chat with people
- Good research skills. But also don’t bog themselves down in data. They’re quick to spot what they need then reach out to those people to engage
- The best ones are really bright and switched on. Able to understand the complexities of people and their skills. Looking beyond technical limitations and can see how they could adapt to a client’s need successfully. As they understand the mechanics of what needs solving, and so how skills can translate successfully
- Brilliant time management skills – especially with deadline juggling and meeting client expectations
- Able to react at pace to things which need quick turnarounds
- Very organised – plate spinning is something of a speciality
- Great emotional intelligence – able to puts the candidate and client needs first
- Real team player – recognises the part they play in helping the team become more than the sum of its parts
- But is also commercially savvy enough to know when they might be pushing a dead horse
Spot any of these traits in you?
TO APPLY
If you think you’ve got what it takes, you can share your Linkedin profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.
Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:
Colin Doree
Head of Recruitment, Data
01892 507122
colin@bluepelican.com
Role: Recruitment Consultant – Life Sciences
Location: Tunbridge Wells / from home as required
Salary: Up to £30,000 basic (dependant on experience)
Uncapped commission with no desk fee. Commission structure tiered up to 20% of invoicing
Opportunity:
If you are an experienced Life Sciences Recruiter with demonstrable experience consistently billing whilst providing a fantastic customer experience to both candidates and clients, Blue Pelican could be just the opportunity you are looking for.
About us:
Blue Pelican has been around since 2001 and was founded on the basis of ‘recruitment done better’. Since then we’ve grown and evolved, driven by the changing face of recruitment and that of the dynamic markets we’re established within.
At our core are our people, some who have been with us for 15+ years, and have helped shape our vision, strategy and culture. Each is highly knowledgeable in their specialist areas and knows what it means to offer a ‘professional consultancy service’.
We punch well above our weight for a firm in Tunbridge Wells, enjoying preferred (and sometimes sole) supplier status to a good number of the UK and Europe’s biggest brand names and employers.
We do all of this in a friendly and informal environment with a culture that is based on honesty, openness, communication and teamwork. Of course that’s predominantly remotely right now but we still work hard to come together online regularly and support each other.
The role:
We’re looking to add to our Pharmaceutical division with a full 360 Recruiter working alongside a highly motivated and well respected team with a real passion for their sector. We’re open to what specialist niche you might like to focus on, and will want you to support recruitment for multinational clients in a wide range of roles up to VP/C-Suite within that space. You will also be able to plan the expansion of your market including working with existing clients and candidates who know and trust Blue Pelican.
We’re looking for someone to work highly autonomously as part of a very tight knit and supportive team.
The team:
Our Pharma Division has been at the heart of Blue Pelican since it’s inception. We take a strategic approach to the development of our client base and enjoy a number of long term deep client relationships. Our clients range from top 5 global pharma to tiny, niche start-ups.
About you:
The role would suit someone with previous experience in a 360-recruitment role within life sciences. To succeed as a Pelican you’ll need:
- A customer service focus and ‘consultative approach’
- Outstanding listening skills
- Confident relationship management skills
- A commercial mindset with the ability to identify and capitalise on business opportunities globally, offering both permanent and contract recruitment services to the market
- Proven experience in negotiation and influencing people
- To be target driven with a real will to succeed
- A proven ability to learn and retain complex information
- Strong prioritisation & time management skills
- High level verbal and written communication skills
- Good IT literacy, specifically with Word and Outlook
Benefits:
- Starting at 22 days holiday plus bank holidays - get +1 extra per calendar year to a max of 27
- Christmas week off
- Private Health Insurance
- Health Shield cash back and discount scheme (includes allowances for sports massages, acupuncture, dental and lots more)
- 4x Death in Service
- Corporate Social Responsibility day per year – use it to do something good for the community or for something that’s close to your heart
- Support for charity work
- Training plan tailored to develop your skills and capabilities
- Defined and achievable career progression plan
How to apply:
Please contact:
Conrad Chant
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