Associate Recruitment Consultant - #2179211

Cobalt Recruitment


Date: 1 hour ago
City: Manchester
Salary: £26,000 - £30,000 / year
Contract type: Full time
Cobalt Recruitment

As an Associate Consultant, you'll support NFI generation by sourcing, engaging and managing high-calibre candidates, building strong talent pipelines and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.


This is an excellent opportunity for someone with recruitment or sales experience who is looking to build a long-term career in specialist recruitment. Working alongside experienced consultants, you'll gain exposure to live mandates from day one while developing the skills, market knowledge and commercial confidence to progress into a successful 360 Recruitment Consultant.


What You'll Be Doing

  • Market map and proactively engage high-calibre, hard-to-find talent.
  • Build strong relationships with active and passive candidates.
  • Manage candidates throughout the recruitment process, from qualification through to offer stage.
  • Deliver high-quality, well-matched shortlists to experienced consultants.
  • Share market insight gathered through candidate conversations.
  • Maintain accurate CRM records and follow best practice recruitment processes.
  • Participate in structured training and ongoing development.


What We're Looking For

  • Recruitment or sales experience, with a commercial mindset and a genuine interest in building a career in specialist recruitment.
  • Confident building relationships and speaking with people from a range of backgrounds.
  • Organised, proactive and able to work at pace.
  • Curious, resilient and eager to develop specialist market knowledge.
  • Ambitious, driven and motivated by career progression and uncapped earning potential.


Why Join Cobalt?

We know the best recruiters thrive when they have the right balance of opportunity, support, development and reward. That's exactly what we're committed to providing.

  • Uncapped bonus scheme.
  • 4-day working week incentive.
  • Unlimited annual leave.
  • Hybrid working.
  • Outstanding training, mentoring and personal development.
  • Clear career progression with transparent promotion pathways.
  • High Achievers' incentive trips and lunches.
  • Quarterly events, prizes and regular team socials.
  • Paid LinkedIn Recruiter Licence and market-leading recruitment technology.
  • Breakfast and fruit in the office.


If you're looking to join a collaborative, specialist business where you can develop your expertise, accelerate your career and be rewarded for your success, we'd love to hear from you.

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