Recruitment Consultant

Permanent

West End

Up to 45K depending on experience

5-VWAPC/NCWSD

Starting Jan 2026

VWA is hiring! We are looking for an ambitious, hardworking, highly communicative and team-playing individual to join our Permanent Division as Recruitment Consultant. With responsibility for building and maintaining your own client-base, the role offers an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their existing account management and business development skills in a commercial and people-focused environment.

About Us

VWA is a boutique recruitment consultancy and has been established for 35 years – there is a true family feel in our culture and approach. We partner with a number of London and internationally based firms to support with a range of hiring needs, including:

• Business support and administrative roles
• Private PAs
• Operations
• Marketing
• HR
• Finance, investments and accountancy

About the Recruitment Consultant Role

As a Consultant based on the Permanent team, your role will focus on both business development/client relationship management and completing end-to-end recruitment processes. You will also be required to perform broader tasks and develop skills which enable the entirety of VWA to flourish in a collaborative, professional and commercial way. These will include:

• Sourcing candidates through responding to applications and active searching on recruitment job boards.
• Taking briefings on permanent, fixed-term contract and temporary-to-permanent roles from clients.
• Filling roles in a timely manner.
• Conducting competency-based interviews with candidates invited to register, and candidate relationship management throughout registration process.
• Shortlisting candidates for clients’ briefs and managing each step of the recruitment process including collating interview feedback from candidates and negotiating offers.
• Relationship management with clients and candidates with a long-term approach based on honesty, trust, respect and consistent engagement.
• Identify and pitch for new business at target clients.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues on shared roles.
• Market research and analysis as required.
• Administrative support including sending our compliance documents.
• Other tasks as required.

About You

• Prior experience in a recruitment would be ideal, however other account management, sales and business development-based backgrounds (with proven success) will be considered.
• Strong attention to detail.
• An efficient approach to work and with a warm and approachable manner.
• Natural rapport-builder, and have a team-working and commercial mindset.
• Experience with LinkedIn, Reed and Access CRM are desirable but not essential.
• Core hours are 9am – 5.30pm, with flexibility to work beyond these hours if required.
• The company operates a hybrid working structure (3 days office-based) however the successful candidate will be fully office-based while onboarding into the role.
• Competitive base salary up to 45K depending on relevant experience and eventual participation in commission scheme and discretionary bonus.

If you’re looking to build a successful career in recruitment in a fun, supportive and team-spirited environment, we would love to hear from you!

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