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Divisional Director
Salary: Attractive Package


Summary

Our client is one of the UK’s largest healthcare groups providing solutions and services to health and social care systems and the life sciences industry. The company’s vision is to be the leading global healthcare solutions partner.

People are always at the very heart of what they do – delivering excellent service to clients, employees, candidates, patients and service users. They combine their flexible, professional workforce with technology and process management to create new delivery models working together for a better future.

We are working exclusively with this client to help them recruit a new Divisional Director for one of their acquired businesses.

The Business

Our client is a specialist social work and healthcare recruitment consultancy, a leading provider of agency social workers in the UK, trusted by over 150 organisations nationwide to provide exceptional agency staff.

Based in Manchester, the company is £100m turnover with a 100 people based at Head office. Due to the company’s success, the business was successfully acquired and is now part of the largest Healthcare Staffing group in Europe. In Addition to Qualified Social Work they have diversified by launching successful offerings in:

  • Nursing – permanent nurses
  • Allied Health Professionals – temporary occupational therapists and physiotherapists
  • Criminal Justice – temporary prison nurses, probation officers, and youth offending officers
  • SEND – temporary and permanent special education needs and disability workers
  • Non-Qualified Care – temporary and permanent care workers

Company Accreditations:

  • Listed in the UK’s Best Medium Workplaces Awards and winners of the Laureate Award, recognising that they were ranked in the awards for 5 years running
  • Winners of “Best Large Recruitment Agency”​ at the Recruitment Business Awards
  • 24th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For
  • Winners of the Best People Development Business Award and Best Back Office Support Team Award at the Institute of Recruitment Professionals Awards.

DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR – THE ROLE

Due to someone leaving the business, The Divisional Director is a key and exciting senior opportunity. The role will be responsible for developing and implementing the commercial and sales strategy for the division, the largest division within the business. This role will play a fundamental part in developing future sales growth and providing vision, direction and leadership for the team. The role will report to the Managing Director, and will become a key member of the management team.

The Divisional Director will be a key member of the senior team – blending hands-on, driven sales performance with strategic vision. Responsible for the Divisions commercial success, he/she will work closely with colleagues and the management team to ensure the company’s goals, strategies, processes and policies are delivered to drive commercial performance.

The appointee will have a “hands on” approach; happy to roll up their sleeves and willing to “go the extra mile” to ensure the team achieves and sustains the highest level of performance. They will be responsible for growing existing markets as well as identifying new growth areas aligned to strategy and be able to execute a plan to successfully manoeuvre the business into these new areas.

He/she will be a true professional who will support the vision of the leadership team and ensure that the messaging is being clearly articulated both internally and externally. He/she will proactively align to company values, holding company reputation in high regard.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE

5+ years recruitment leadership experience working for a mature recruitment business, or in a comparable recruitment leadership role in industry Strong experience of Social Work recruitment processes in the healthcare and public sector industries. Candidates who can demonstrate success in a comparable role within the healthcare, education, SEND, nursing, AHP and criminal justice markets will also be considered Successfully launched or significantly grown service offerings in a recruitment business or recruitment function Delivering growth and achieving/ exceeding budget expectations

  • Ability to attract, develop and retain high performing consultants and Team Managers
  • Demonstrable experience of winning multiple high value client accounts in previous roles New business sales experience and ability to turn propositions into services Excellent client and stakeholder relationships at the highest level Ability to deliver presentation and proposals to senior stakeholders internal and external at Board level
  • Operations Sales/Business Development Strategy/Planning
  • Life Science
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester (GB)
Job Ref No: DD RM 11/21
This job has now been successfully concluded.