Senior Recruitment Consultant - Winnipeg

Job summary

Build and grow client relationships and accounts, advise clients on hiring needs, and develop new business through networking, referrals, and outreach. Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing and headhunting candidates, interviews, offers, negotiations, references, and placements, while providing clients with market insights.

Job details

Senior Recruitment Consultant – Winnipeg At The Headhunters, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the recruitment industry. Our mission is to assist companies in building their most valuable asset, their people. We’re currently looking for a Senior Recruitment Consultant to join our Edmonton team. This is an opportunity for an experienced recruiter or sales professional who thrives on building relationships, solving business challenges, and creating long-term partnerships. You’ll benefit from leveraging an established client base while driving new business growth and delivering successful recruitment outcomes. What You’ll Do: Strategic Client Partnerships: Become a trusted advisor to your clients by understanding their business, workforce challenges, and long-term hiring needs. Recommend talent solutions that help them achieve their goals. Relationship Management: Build meaningful, lasting relationships with both clients and candidates, becoming the resource for hiring and guidance. Business Development & Account Growth: Build and grow a portfolio of clients through networking, referrals, and proactive outreach while nurturing long-term relationships that lead to repeat business. Full-Cycle Recruitment: Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from job intake and candidate sourcing through interviews, offers, negotiations, references, and successful placements. Talent Attraction & Headhunting: Proactively source, engage, and attract top talent through networking, headhunting, referrals, and market outreach. Consultative Recruiting: Identify the true needs of both clients and candidates to create successful, long-term matches that benefit both parties. Complex Offer Management: Facilitate negotiations and guide clients and candidates through sensitive hiring decisions with professionalism and confidence. Market Expertise: Stay informed on hiring trends, compensation benchmarks, talent availability, and market conditions to provide valuable insights to clients. What We’re Looking For: 360 Recruitment Experience or Strong Sales Background: You have experience managing a full recruitment desk, developing client relationships, or succeeding in a consultative sales environment where relationship-building is key. Relationship Builder: You genuinely enjoy building trust and fostering long-term professional relationships with clients and candidates. Consultative Mindset: You ask the right questions, uncover business challenges, and develop thoughtful solutions rather than simply filling positions. Business Development Skills: You are confident identifying opportunities, growing accounts, and creating lasting partnerships. Strong Communication & Negotiation Skills: You can confidently navigate conversations with executives, hiring managers, and candidates while managing complex hiring processes. Self-Motivated & Results-Oriented: You take ownership of your work, manage competing priorities effectively, and are driven by achieving meaningful results. Team-Oriented: You value collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to the success of the broader team. What You Can Expect in Return: Compensation: A competitive, uncapped compensation package with comprehensive benefits. Fully Remote Role & Flexibility: A fully remote work environment with flexibility in your day-to-day schedule, balanced with the needs of our clients and team. Established Brand: With a strong reputation and clients across North America, our brand brings in leads and inbound job orders. Full Back-Office Support: Dedicated accounting, marketing, administrative, and recruitment assistance so you can focus your time on clients and candidates. Onboarding and Training: A comprehensive onboarding program with ongoing training and a collaborative, continuous learning environment. Team Culture: A supportive, collaborative culture grounded in integrity, respect, and shared success. Total Talent Solutions for Your Clients: We are part of the Humanis Advisory Group, a national organization offering a full suite of services that you can offer to your clients, including recruitment, executive search, leadership coaching, and HR consulting. If you're passionate about building relationships, helping businesses solve hiring challenges, and connecting exceptional people with meaningful opportunities, we'd love to hear from you. Read more about working at The Headhunters at https://www.theheadhunters.ca/about-us/join-our-team/. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada. Only candidates selected to move forward in the hiring process will be contacted.

What you’ll do

Build and grow client relationships and accounts, advise clients on hiring needs, and develop new business through networking, referrals, and outreach. Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing and headhunting candidates, interviews, offers, negotiations, references, and placements, while providing clients with market insights.

Requirements

Candidates should have experience managing a full recruitment desk or a strong background in consultative sales, with demonstrated ability to build relationships and develop business. The role also calls for strong communication and negotiation skills, a consultative and results-oriented approach, self-motivation, and a collaborative mindset.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits
• Flexible Schedule
• Onboarding And Training
• Ongoing Training
• Administrative Support
• Accounting Support
• Marketing Support
• Recruitment Assistance

Listed skills

• Negotiation · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• Client Relationship Management · Preferred
• Business development · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Full-Cycle Recruitment
• Business Development
• Client Relationship Management
• Candidate Relationship Management
• Headhunting
• Talent Sourcing
• Consultative Recruiting
• Consultative Sales
• Negotiation
• Account Growth
• Market Research
• Compensation Benchmarking
• Client Advisory
• Offer Management
• Networking
• Communication

Job areas

• Human Resources
• Sales
• Consulting
• Management & Leadership