Senior Recruitment Consultant - Software & Data Engineering

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About The Job

Robert Walters Singapore is searching for talented and driven individuals to join our team as Recruitment Consultants. We offer a dynamic and supportive work environment where your hard work is recognised and rewarded. You'll benefit from our extensive global network, cutting-edge technology, and a clear path for career progression.

At Robert Walters, we pride ourselves on connecting top talent with leading businesses across various sectors. As a Recruitment Consultant, you will act as an intermediary between organisations (clients) wishing to recruit staff and professionals (candidates) seeking a career change. The objective of the consultant is to meet the needs of both the employer and the candidate to ensure the best mutual fit. This is more than just a case of skills matching. It is important to have a strong understanding of the employer's business, their business culture as well as the professional ambitions of the candidate, ensuring that these are all aligned.


Responsibilities:

Client Engagement

• Arrange and attend meetings with prospective clients and keep in regular contact to build positive, productive, and long-term and trusted relationships with new and existing clients
• Gain a thorough understanding of your client's business, culture and successfully interpret their unique resourcing requirement and offer a solution-focused approach
• Consult and advise clients on our portfolio of solutions
• Present profiles to clients, either for existing roles or on a speculative basis
• Ensure only high-quality candidates are put forward to our clients for interview
• Adhere to a short turnaround time for screening applicants, advertising response, reference checking
• Manage the interview process - from candidate screening through to interview, feedback and negotiation of remuneration package with client
• Ensure the Robert Walters database accurately reflects all business dealings with clients and candidates
• Lead and Support candidate and client functions and events

Seek Opportunities & Thought Leadership that foster business growth

• Take ownership of your business development plan within your industry specialisation
• Generating new business via pro-active business development
• Build cooperative internal relationships focusing on cross-divisional and cross-regional relationships
• Develop a solid business pipeline and consistently achieve all revenue and targets
• Understand Robert Walters commercial terms and negotiate (within pre-agreed parameters with Manager)
• Identify potential recruitment consultants and refer them to the business
• Gain understanding of your market specialization by attending specialist events/webinars
• Keep up to date about industry trends/recruitment best practices to ensure you can provide and demonstrate market knowledge to both candidates and clients

Candidate Management

• Professionally and effectively manage the recruitment process from beginning to end
• Source, select, and assess candidate skills and experiences, their career goals and their suitability for different roles, advise candidates on market conditions and job opportunities
• Organise and coordinate interviews with candidates and fully briefing candidates regarding roles
• Contribute to candidate review within your team and present high-quality candidates
• Take responsibility for keeping in touch with candidates to have a firm knowledge of your candidate pool - both active and inactive
• Constantly monitor the candidates in the database to ensure candidates' availability is kept updated through a periodic review
• Develop and provide consultation to a large network of candidates with both immediate and long-term career needs
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of information of candidates within the database

Requirements:

• Two or more years of experience in technical roles or in a sales/business development environment.
• Experience in the software and data engineering field is advantageous but not mandatory
• Determination to succeed and resilience
• Pro-activeness and commercial acumen
• A commitment to exceeding client expectations, attracting top talent and achieving targets
• An entrepreneurial, organised and driven approach with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent team player - you'll enjoy sharing information and building robust relationships
• The initiative it takes to make sound decisions and recommend innovative solutions

Benefits:

• A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
• A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you'll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with a fantastic incentives programme
• A fantastic training and development programme
• The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
• Employee wellbeing through various programmes
• You'll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That's the benefit of working for a large global organisation.

Due to the high volume of applications, we are experiencing, our team will only be in touch with you if your application is shortlisted.

"As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know."