Consultant

Consultant
Meridia Recruitment Solutions
St. John's, NL
Reference # NH-MRS-8708

Meridia Recruitment Solutions is in search of a Consultant to join our growing team, based in our St. John's location.

A KBRS company, Meridia shares a 50-year tradition of recruitment excellence that has led to our growth as Atlantic Canada's largest talent solutions organization and has fueled our expanded reach across Canada and the United States. Meridia provides high quality, fast turnaround recruitment for professional and technical positions. We create ideal matches between leading organizations and top talent by taking the time to understand the needs and goals of all parties involved. We focus on forming strong, long-lasting relationships because we are only successful when both our clients and candidates are.

Role description:
As a Consultant with Meridia, you will be part of a high-performing team of dedicated professionals, with a strong focus on permanent recruitment for leading companies and organizations. In addition to supporting and growing our presence locally, you will also play a key role in expanding our reach into new markets across Canada, helping to build relationships and drive recruitment success beyond the province. You will focus on relationship development and providing clients and candidates with exemplary service and trustworthy counsel. By developing and sustaining partnerships with clients and building quality candidate networks, you will successfully connect great talent with top employers in a highly professional manner.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Establishing and sustaining strong relationships with clients, with a focus on excellent customer service.
• Growing and managing our client portfolio by building solid networks and identifying leads for new business opportunities, and by consistently meeting client recruitment requirements.
• Researching candidate profiles, reviewing and assessing applications against client requirements, and leveraging your ability to build rapport quickly to engage qualified candidates.
• Building an extensive candidate network to enable you to connect great talent with top employers in a highly professional manner.

Who you are:
You are a self-motivated relationship builder who possesses strong listening skills and an obvious tenacity for business development and networking. As the ideal candidate, you must have business development and client management experience. Highly organized and detail orientated with strong interpersonal, communication and time-management skills, you demonstrate an entrepreneurial approach, as well as competitiveness and contagious team spirit.

• Proven experience in client and account management, with a strong focus on building and maintaining professional relationships.
• Demonstrated ability in prospecting and cold calling, with a track record of identifying and converting new business opportunities.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple recruitment assignments and client needs simultaneously.
• A self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable working independently and taking initiative.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to listen actively and build trust.
• Highly organized, with strong time-management and follow-through.
• Completion of post-secondary education in a relevant field would be preferred.
• Previous experience in recruitment or talent acquisition is an asset.

What we provide:

• Freedom to build your own book of business within a leading recruitment company.
• An ambitious, entrepreneurial, and collegial team.
• Competitive compensation structure.
• Established referral network based on almost half a century of strong business relationships.

To express interest in this opportunity please apply online by clicking "Apply Now" below.

For more information contact Natalie Hand, Managing Partner at [email protected].

Meridia is committed to being an organization where diversity and different perspectives are valued. We strive to be an organization that is inclusive, supportive, and reflective of the communities and organizations we serve and we encourage applications from all those candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our firm.

As part of the recruitment process, Meridia will provide support in its recruitment processes to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that considers an applicant's accessibility needs. If you require accommodation to participate as a candidate in the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] or communicate your needs to our team.

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