Managing Director

Managing Director – Recruitment,Board Level 
Leicester (East Midlands)
to £100,000 + Bonus + Equity Potential

Overview
An established professional services recruitment business is seeking a Managing Director to lead and scale its recruitment operations. This recruitment business covers all professional services sectors and has built a strong foundation in the recruitment market, with an existing recruitment team in place. The successful candidate will drive recruitment growth, enhance recruitment performance, and lead the business through its next phase of expansion.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall recruitment strategy, aligning business goals with market opportunities
• Take full ownership of recruitment P&L, driving revenue and profitability across all recruitment functions
• Provide hands-on leadership to the existing recruitment team, delivering training, coaching, and ongoing support
• Improve recruitment performance through structured training programmes and development plans
• Support recruitment sales activity, including client acquisition, key account management, and revenue generation
• Oversee recruitment operations, ensuring efficient processes, compliance, and scalability
• Develop and execute recruitment strategy across all professional services sectors
• Identify new recruitment opportunities, markets, and service offerings
• Work closely with leadership to strengthen recruitment delivery and candidate experience
• Build a high-performance recruitment culture focused on accountability and results

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior recruitment leadership role (Managing Director, Recruitment Director,Senior Recruitment Manager  or similar)
• Strong track record of growing a recruitment business and delivering consistent recruitment revenue growth
• Experience managing and developing recruitment teams, including training and performance improvement
• Deep understanding of recruitment sales, operations, and strategy within the UK recruitment market
• Commercially driven with strong recruitment P&L management experience
• Hands-on approach with the ability to support both recruitment delivery and recruitment sales
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Desirable

• Experience within professional services recruitment
• Experience in scaling recruitment businesses or leading recruitment transformation projects

What’s on Offer

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus
• Equity/share options potential
• Opportunity to lead and shape a growing recruitment business
• Autonomy across recruitment strategy, recruitment operations, and recruitment sales
• Supportive ownership structure and clear growth mandate

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