Job details
Location: Bridgwater
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Salary: £27,000 – £30,000 per year
Bonus: Uncapped personal and business performance bonuses
OTE: £45,000 – £55,000
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Based: Main Bridgwater office, with local travel across the region
Benefits: Company vehicle available during working hours, national award-winning office.
Are you an experienced Recruitment Consultant or sales professional who wants more than quick wins?
Do you enjoy building long-term partnerships instead of chasing short-term transactions?
Do you like getting out from behind the desk, meeting real people, visiting businesses face-to-face, understanding what they need, and then finding the right candidates to make it happen?
With the addition of a secondary office in the region, Driver Hire Bridgwater & Taunton now requires an experienced, driven and commercially minded Recruitment Consultant to join our award-winning office.
This is not a role for someone who wants to sit back and wait for the phone to ring.
This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys consultative sales, face-to-face client meetings, candidate attraction, relationship building and delivering results.
The Role
You will be responsible for building and managing your own client and candidate relationships across the local area.
This is a Monday to Friday role, working 9:00am – 5:30pm, based from our main Bridgwater office. You will also travel locally across the region for client visits, face-to-face meetings and business development activity.
You will be out visiting businesses, conducting face-to-face meetings, developing new partnerships and understanding exactly what each client needs from their workforce.
Once those relationships are built, you will oversee the full recruitment journey — sourcing candidates, speaking with them properly, understanding their experience, matching them to suitable roles and placing the staff your clients need.
Your role will include:
Building relationships with new clients across the Bridgwater area and wider region
Visiting clients face-to-face and conducting professional business meetings
Developing long-term partnerships rather than chasing one-off quick wins
Understanding client requirements and providing consultative recruitment solutions
Finding, speaking with and placing suitable candidates
Managing the recruitment process from initial contact through to placement
Maintaining strong relationships with both clients and candidates
Driving revenue through new client wins and successful candidate placements
This is a role where your personality matters. Your ability to listen, ask good questions, build trust and follow through will be key.
What We Offer
£27,000 – £30,000 basic salary
Uncapped personal and business performance bonuses
Realistic OTE of £45,000 – £55,000
Monday to Friday working hours, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Based at our main Bridgwater office
Local travel across the region for client meetings and business development
Company vehicle available during working hours
Opportunity to join an award-winning office
National award recognition and career development opportunities
A growing site with genuine scope to make your mark
A role built around long-term client relationships, not short-term pressure selling
Support from an established and respected recruitment brand
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone with experience in recruitment, sales, business development or account management.
You may already be an experienced Recruitment Consultant, or you may come from a strong B2B sales background and be ready to move into a people-focused, high-impact recruitment role.
You will need to be confident meeting clients face-to-face, comfortable building new business relationships and motivated by both service and results.
This role will involve regular face-to-face client meetings, business development, candidate attraction and managing the full recruitment journey from first conversation through to successful placement.
To Be Considered for This Role
To be considered for this Recruitment Consultant position, you must have:
A minimum of 1 year’s experience in recruitment, sales, business development or account management
Experience building relationships with clients, customers or candidates
Confidence conducting face-to-face meetings
A full, clean UK driving licence
The ability to drive an automatic vehicle
Be aged 23 or over due to company vehicle insurance requirements
Strong communication skills and a consultative approach
The drive to develop new business and build long-term partnerships
Why Join Us?
At Driver Hire Bridgwater & Taunton, we do things properly.
We take time to listen to our clients. We take time to understand our candidates. We believe recruitment works best when it is built on trust, consistency and long-term relationships.
This is a chance to join an award-winning office at an exciting stage of growth, with the launch of our new Bridgwater site creating a major opportunity for the right person.
You will have the freedom to get out into the market, meet businesses face-to-face, build meaningful partnerships and directly influence the success of the site.
Your success will be rewarded through uncapped personal and business performance bonuses, meaning you benefit from both your own achievements and the wider success of the site.
About Driver Hire
Driver Hire is the UK’s largest specialist transport and logistics recruitment company. While it is a national brand, it operates as a franchised network, meaning the office is locally and independently owned, giving clients and candidates the benefit of a trusted national brand with the personal service of a local, family-run business.
Apply Today
This is a bold opportunity for a bold person.
If you are experienced in recruitment or sales, enjoy meeting people face-to-face and want a role where long-term partnerships matter more than quick wins, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to join Driver Hire Bridgwater & Taunton as our new Recruitment Consultant.
