Recruitment Consultant – Consumer Brands

Recruitment Consultant – Consumer Brands
Bournemouth | Hybrid
£30,000–£35,000 + Uncapped Commission up to 30%
Full-time

You know how recruitment works. Now you want the opportunity to build something of your own.

Acquire is a specialist recruitment partner to ambitious DTC and consumer brands across the UK, Europe and the US.

For the last eight years, we’ve built our reputation recruiting Marketing & Growth talent. Now we’re expanding our specialist capability across Sales & Commercial and Operations & Supply Chain.

We’re looking for a commercially minded Recruitment Consultant to help build one of these markets.

You won’t inherit a fully formed desk, but you won’t start from zero either.

You’ll have Acquire’s existing reputation, client relationships, case studies, senior network, marketing engine and delivery support behind you, with the opportunity to develop and eventually own a specialist market.

Depending on your strengths and interests, that could be Sales & Commercial across National Accounts, Retail, Wholesale, Business Development and Sales Leadership, or Operations & Supply Chain across Supply Chain, Demand & Planning, Procurement, Logistics and Operations.

What You’ll Do
Build relationships with founders, senior leaders and hiring managers across consumer brands.
Proactively develop new clients through phone, LinkedIn, referrals and networking.
Run discovery calls and turn hiring challenges into recruitment opportunities.
Build and manage your own new-business pipeline.
Identify exceptional talent and use candidate and market intelligence to create opportunities.
Work closely with our delivery team to provide an excellent client and candidate experience.
Develop genuine expertise and a strong network within your specialist market.

Who We’re Looking For
You’ll have some agency recruitment experience and understand how a recruitment desk works.

You might already be a 360 Consultant, or you could be earlier in your recruitment career and ready for more responsibility across clients, business development and market ownership.

Your current recruitment specialism isn’t particularly important. Consumer or FMCG experience would be useful, but isn’t essential.

We’re much more interested in commercial instinct, curiosity, confidence picking up the phone, consistency and the desire to build something.

We want to build a high-performance culture without creating an old-school recruitment environment.

You’ll be given trust, flexibility and autonomy, but with that comes accountability. We set high standards, care about results and expect everyone to contribute to the growth of the business.

Why Acquire?
We don’t believe in handing someone a laptop, a target and hoping for the best.

You’ll receive structured external development tailored to your experience, alongside hands-on coaching, mentoring and practical support from an experienced recruitment team.

You’ll also get:
Uncapped commission up to 30%. When you reach a commission level, that percentage applies to all your commissionable billings that month, not just the amount above the threshold.
25 days holiday + bank holidays.
2:30pm finish on Fridays.
Up to two working weeks each year working from anywhere, subject to approval.
Hybrid working from our new Westbourne office, with an onsite gym.
The opportunity to work with ambitious consumer brands across the UK, Europe and US.
Genuine ownership and the opportunity to build and eventually own a specialist recruitment market as Acquire grows.

We’re a small team with ambitious plans, so you’ll be joining at a point where you can genuinely influence what Acquire becomes over the next few years.

If you know recruitment, enjoy the commercial side and want more ownership over what you build, we’d love to hear from you.