About Freshminds

Based in central London, we are an established consultancy, shaping the future of resourcing and consulting. Since 2000, we have worked with global businesses of every size to solve commercial, strategic and analytical challenges by putting the required expertise at the centre. Clients include FTSE100 companies, leading consultancies and fast-growing start-ups with services in talent advisory, resourcing and managed projects.
Our culture is friendly, supportive and collaborative. From team events and company socials to training and a collaborative attitude across everything we do, we pride ourselves on providing a fantastic working environment.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, engaging and driven Delivery Consultant to join our Projects Team.

About you and the role

As a Delivery Consultant in the Consulting Projects Team, you will focus on growing, developing and engaging the network of consultants – from junior to Partner level. You will be knowledgeable of the strategy consulting market, bringing credibility and gravitas to conversations with consultants.

Your day-to-day will be dynamic and fast-paced, including a range of headhunting, screening and interviewing new joiners to the network, through to discussing project opportunities, market trends and career journeys. You will feel energised about these conversations, engaging and building rapport with the candidates.

You will be responsible for attracting, screening and selecting consultants for the Freshminds network, introducing them to appropriate opportunities, managing and coaching candidates through interview processes and working in partnership with Sales Consultants to deliver on client briefs. You will attend client meetings and be confident to present profiles and challenge clients accordingly.

You will work hand-in-hand with Sales to deliver best in class service across every interaction you have with a candidate, a client, a partner, a vendor, a colleague.

You will be well versed in our key markets, products and candidate & client processes inside out, while developing a thorough grounding in the Freshminds approach to business relationships.

Responsibilities

• Candidate headhunting, screening, shortlisting, briefing, interviewing and process management

• Working with marketing to contribute ideas for events and tech-enabled outreach campaigns

• Working collaboratively with Sales, to ensure excellence on delivery and outstanding Freshminds’ brand experience

Your skills

• Collaborative – you’re excited about working in a highly collaborative environment; you enjoying learning and sharing your own knowledge, and you are aware of your impact in the people around you – as well as their impact on you

• Curious – you’re eager to learn, to understand things, to solve problems, and you’re open and creative about the solutions

• Resourceful, diligent and proactive – if you don’t know something, you will ask, research and brainstorm to figure it out

• Driven – you’re front-footed, self-motivated, a proper self-starter

• Experienced in recruitment or another service-oriented commercial role

Benefits

• Attractive bonus and commission scheme

• Company pension scheme

• Private medical insurance / alternative lifestyle benefit

• 23 days’ holiday + 1 extra day for each year of service (up to 28 days)

• Paid CSR day to dedicate to charitable volunteering

• Discounted gym membership, free eye tests, childcare vouchers and cycle to work scheme

• Option to participate in annual subsidised company holiday

• Option to buy 3 additional days’ holiday per anum

• Optional annual travelcard loan after 1 years’ service

• Optional 4 week sabbatical after 3 years’ service

• Optional 8 week sabbatical after 5 years’ service

Next steps

To get started, pop your email in the top right of this page.

You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which includes two interviews. Also, we love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process, we'll share how well you performed on skills that we test throughout the application process.

Expected duration of this application process: 2-3 weeks

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race.