Principal Recruitment Consultant (360 Recruitment Role)
Location: Leeds (LS1)
Remuneration: Up to £35,000, Uncapped Commission, Benefits
Billing Well but Feeling Stuck? This is Your Next Step Toward Leadership and Bigger Earnings.
If you re an experienced 360 recruiter who consistently delivers but feels ready for a desk with more potential, clearer progression, and real support ATA Recruitment in Leeds can offer you that next step.
This is a Principal Consultant role where you ll take ownership, build toward leadership, and be trusted to grow your market without the usual moving targets and broken promises.
The Role and About You
As a Principal Recruitment Consultant, you ll take ownership of a desk in the North West Maintenance Engineering market an active, high-demand sector where good recruiters thrive.
You ll inherit warm sales data and existing client relationships, so you won t be starting from zero but you ll have the freedom to build and shape your desk with autonomy.
You ll be:
- Developing business with both new and existing clients, with plenty of warm leads to go at
- Building long-term relationships with hiring managers and becoming their go-to recruiter
- Sourcing and managing candidates in a competitive, fast-moving market
- Handling offers, negotiations, and closing deals with confidence
- Working toward a leadership pathway this role has genuine scope to progress into team management
About you:
- You re already billing, but you want more control, a bigger desk, and a route to grow into leadership
- You re commercially sharp, resilient, and take pride in building relationships that last
- You re looking for a business that backs you with real investment in your market, not just lip service
- You'll have a high level of written and spoken English.
Why ATA Recruitment?
Recruiters join us because they re ready to grow and stay because they see clear, tangible progression.
- Established brand with over 60 years in recruitment we know how to build markets that last
- Warm desk + uncapped commission no artificial thresholds or clawbacks
- Clear promotion paths real steps from Consultant to Senior and beyond, following proven examples inside our business.
- Support without micromanagement we give you the tools and trust you to deliver.
Our culture is performance-driven but grounded no toxic KPIs for the sake of it, just clear expectations, proper rewards, and support to help you move forward.
Next Steps:
If you re ready to move your recruitment career forward with a bigger desk, leadership potential, and the support to hit bigger goals we d like to talk.
Contact Rachael, our Talent Manager, for a confidential chat about where you are now and what your next step could look like with ATA Recruitment.
Ganymede is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation