Job Description

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Founded in 2015, BluZinc are looking for a brilliant part Assistant to the CEO and part Recruiter / Researcher / Resourcer / Executive Search / Recruitment Consultant. Attached to London, a remote based job opening for our boutique talent acquisition and selection consultancy, growing based on exceptional performance results over the last 4 years; in response to client and candidate demand. Most our client clients have awesome digital marketing and eCommerce operations and technology teams, remote based, with head offices near Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Miami, Isle of Man, Durban, London and other cities.
Client contacts include CEO, COO, CMO, CTO, CFO, VPHR, Senior Managers of small (under $100MM ARR in the USA), rapidly expanding, successful B2C consumer companies in health, wellness, fitness, food supplements, functional beverages, herbs, nutrition, nutraceuticals, organic skincare, fashion, and B2B eLearning (teaching marketing or business growth), Marketing Agencies and a some medium (over $100MM) to large size clients, all with a strong focus on Direct to Consumer business and sales/service models, mostly in the USA with more clients planned in London!
Around 70% of this role is supporting recruitment consultancy sales, service, business development, candidate acquisition and selection, to help the CEO scale who will bring on more clients, jobs and then build out the internal BluZinc team of recruiters. This role could become General / Operations Manager or you will in the future help hire that type of person and move into a full time EA / PA. type focus. We have an established outsourced relationship for accounting, payroll, and bookkeeping.
To be considered an ideal applicant, we need your experience, abilities, knowledge, goals, interests and aspirations to include most of:

• Support to the CEO and be a recruiter, esnuring that the clients he manages are being serviced, experienced in customer sales & service, digital marketing, operations, people, process, procedures, digital technology (including Google Workplace)

• Be point of contact for suppliers, affiliates, partners, reception, meeting management, travel, events, data, analytics, CRM, compliance, training, recruiting, HR, finance, credit, accounts (less than 3 day a month currently due to ousrourced suppliers and excellent digital proceses and efificiencies)

• A good understanding of Digital Marketing, Media, Communications, Online Shops, eCommerce, Operations and comfortable with modern digital HR / recruitment marketing technology for sourcing and managing business

• Effective in sales, relationship management, rapport building, listening, questioning, persuasion, influencing, negotiating and always learning or open to coaching (this is important with candidates and for a future management role in this company)

• If you are an experienced new business Marketing, eCommerce, or Operations recruiter with client contact relationships in funded start-ups or small, medium size growing companies or PSL relationshions in large corpoates, you can manage your own clients and be paid full commission and bonuses as per a Recruitment Consultant with extra financial rewards for bringing on clients

• Knowledge of winning, developing and delivering with repeat business in recruitment or marketing / advertising / digital agency services or D2C eCommerce consumer brand

• Headhunting, publishing adverts, emails, calls, interviews, managing the candidate relationships, ATS process, lead generation, marketing etc while being coached over several months on how to develop your own small client portfolio of high quality relationships that are enjoyable and lucrative or you may prefer to stay candidate focused and sales support rather than in a new business client facing role

• Contingency or retained Search and Selection services for Executive Recruitment, either confidential or client paid dual branded advertised selection, with base salaries are $80K-$400K+

• Contractor Placements or Interim Executive Management (only if you have existing client contact relationships as a 360 degree consultant)

• Home Based / Remote (USA positions will be self employed / 1099 consultants / freelance)

• High levels of emotional intelligence, empathy, rapport building, intelligent, critical thinking, initiative, competitive winner, amazing planning, prioritising and organising skills

• You are an excellent networker, charismatic, proactive in client and/or candidate development, self confident, self motivated, aware of integrated advertising, sales and marketing, will enjoy providing blog/vlog content for your branding communication and for all the right reasons, be memorable on calls, in meetings and at industry events

• Assessment and selection, accurate, objective judgment, to ensure conversion to long term client/candidate culture fit and sustainable teams in profitable companies

• Our busiest operational times are UK afternoon and some early evenings due to many USA clients conducting Zoom interviews with potential candidates for our clients

• We rarely work beyond UK 7pm except for an emergency or when great things happen like managing offers and acceptances for new placements and it makes sense to do it today rather than tomorrow

• At present our mein manageemtn weekly meeting is on a Wednesday and a sales meeting on Thursday

• 2.1/1st Class University degree or equivenlwent / similar caliber

• Excellent communication skills in all mediums and formats including Business level English fluency

We are a creative team, focused on quality, for constructive, productive and enjoyable experiences with everyone we work with... including you! Your career with us can be focused around resourcing candidates for a senior consultant or end to end on your own customer portfolio and/or team management or exec support while always contributing to fee earning with exceptional prospects and rewards.
We can informally, confidentially connect with the curious or for those more serious about a career change, lets progress more swiftly to offer and joining over the short or medium term future. For more insight to our brand, values, services, clients, jobs, talent and culture search online for: BluZinc and apply ASAP!

Skills Required