Senior Contract Recruitment Consultant – Life Sciences

Why This Role Exists

If you're a contract recruiter with a strong book, the real question is: why would you leave?

Usually it's not because things are bad - it's because there's nowhere left to grow. Your accounts are solid but opportunity is capped. You're bringing in great business, but someone else is taking the credit, or the split. You've proven you can win, but you're still being told how.And naturally, commission schemes may need looking at to better reward and earn.This role is for someone ready to stop managing a desk and start building a market - with a strong backing, genuine autonomy, and a commission structure that actually rewards it.

What's In It For You

• Keep more of what you generate. 50/50 split as standard on any cross-vertical business - win a deal, and if someone else fills it in a different specialism, you both getfees apportioned fairly and properly. Here - No one's precious about "my client, my desk."
• A real annual kicker. Hit your GP and booking target and earn an additionalbonus on your entire year's invoicing that's the difference between a good year and an exceptional one.

• Financial protection while you build. Moving means walking away from commission on business you've already won. For the right person with a genuine, provable book, there's a guarantee to bridge that gap.
• Genuine autonomy. You come in as the specialist - your plan, your market knowledge, your relationships - and you're trusted to run it. Not micromanaged, not scripted.
• A manager who invests in your growth, not just your numbers. In their own words: "I want people to succeed and grow... helping someone self-develop is some of the best success I've had."
• A culture that shares clients rather than hoards them - the teams that collaborate definitely come out stronger than ones that don't

• International scope, with real appetite to build out DACH, Scandinavia and wider Europe alongside an already fast-growing US arm.
• A clear route upward as the business invests in new verticals, new regions, and structured leadership training.

• Flexible location - 2 days Brighton preferred, but remote genuinely on the table for the right person.

What You'll Be Doing

Bringing your specialist Life Sciences market with you. Winning and expanding business, building your own contractor book end-to-end (360), or focusing purely on business development (180) with delivery support if you're a proven client-winner. Working with a genuinely collaborative team who'll help you cross-sell into accounts you couldn't reach alone.

What You'll Bring

• Proven contract recruitment experience - essential.
• A track record of personally winning clients (or genuinely growing and "owning" an account you didn't originally win).
• Life Sciences, Pharma, Medical Devices, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality or Operations background - or a specialism that complements the team.
• The confidence to back yourself, with a real plan for how you'd build here.
• A genuine reason to move: a book that's outgrown its home, or a company not backing you properly.

Sound Like You?

If you've built something real where you are, but you're ready to build something bigger - better economics, real backing, people who'll actually help you grow it - let's talk.