Human Resources & RecruitmentFull time
19 Oct
Associate / Consultative Recruiter – Business Development
India
Depends on the candidate
Full time
Summary role description:
Looking for Associate / Consultative Recruiter – Business Development for our team at Antal, Chennai Gemini Circle.
Company description:
Antal International Network is a tenured, global specialism-driven Recruitment company, headquartered in London, UK and with a network of 140+ offices in 38 countries.
This role is with our office in Chennai (Antal Gemini Circle website), headed by Ram Narayanan (Ram's LI profile). Driven by our high-touch, consultative, we source and place top-tier talent, spanning from critical lateral positions to C-suite and CEO-level appointments, for our clients who are premier organizations worldwide,
This role is with our office in Chennai (Antal Gemini Circle website), headed by Ram Narayanan (Ram's LI profile).
Role details:
· Role: Associate Consultative Recruiter / Consultative Recruiter – Business Development
· Reporting Manager: Managing Partner
· Location: Gemini Circle, Chennai
Role and responsibilities:
· Overall: Contribute to expanding our client footprint globally while simultaneously also headhunting to place exceptional talent for those very accounts, and nurture long-term relationships, through own and team efforts.
Client Acquisition & Growth (50% Focus):
· Market mapping & prospecting: Identify and target prospective corporate clients that require premium hiring solutions, across geographies, keeping tabs on market and hiring trends, using insights to sharpen our approach.
· B2B outreach: Initiate strategic conversations with senior decisionmakers in HR / TA and Business leadership, through structured cold outreach, LinkedIn networking, and industry research, utilizing “phygital” campaign mechanisms (social media, email, AEO/ GEO/SEO, content marketing) and analyze outcomes to refine strategies.
· Pitching & onboarding: Present our firm’s specialized capabilities, negotiate commercial terms, and secure new client mandates/agreements.
· Relationship management: Act as the primary point of contact for newly acquired accounts, ensuring deep account farming and long-term client retention.
· Collateral building: Curate and share stories, case studies, and thought leadership that strengthen our brand and engage our network.
Talent Delivery & Executive Search (50% Focus):
· Hiring mandates understanding: Utilize industry knowledge and clients’ role requirements to map the ideal candidate profile, considering skills and cultural nuances.
· Consultative search / headhunting: Utilize our advanced sourcing strategies, professional networks, and direct targeting to identify high-caliber candidates globally.
· Candidate evaluation & assessment: Conduct rigorous competency-based interviews to assess candidates’ alignment with the client’s strategic goals.
· Process management: Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including interview scheduling, feedback loops, offer negotiations, and post-placement engagement.
Requirements:
· 0 to 1 year of relevant professional experience.
· Prior experience in B2B corporate sales / client handling, and / or recruitment is a plus, but is not mandatory.
· MBA / PGDM – or any other business education qualification – highly preferable.
· Noticeable proficiency in written and spoken Business English.
· A strong appetite for business development, cold outreach, and outcome-driven environments.
· Ability to quickly understand diverse industries, business models, and complex organizational structures.
· Skilled at consultative selling and communicating value to diverse client stakeholders.
· Curiosity, lateral thinking skills, abstraction skills, with the ability to make sense of loosely defined challenges.
· Eager practitioner mindset, with the potential to add to or amend the playbook over time, while owning solutions.
Selection Process:
· Assessments and group discussion at the office
· Solutions articulation presentation
· Interview
Benefits:
· Direct one-on-one mentoring with immense potential to be groomed into a well-rounded business leader, in quick time.
· Global Exposure: The opportunity to interact with CXOs and senior corporate executives across international markets early in your career.
· Hybrid Compensation Structure: A stable fixed salary paired with a highly rewarding incentive model that pays out on both client acquisition milestones and successful placement revenues, topped up with a clearly articulated fast-track career progression.
· Effort Recognition: A culture that values and financially rewards consistent effort and robust operational KRAs, independent of final billing outcomes.
· Day job as a springboard to develop a ringside view of multiple sectors, industries, functions, roles and skills sets, across multiple business and operational models, across the globe.
· High visibility within an internal global network of 140+ offices in 38 countries across 5 continents and in an ever-expanding network of clients and candidates; unique opportunity to evolve as a personal brand, effortlessly.