Sales Trainer - Recruitment

Sales Trainer – Recruitment
City Of London
Up to £45,000 + Bonus
Hybrid working - WFH Wednesday

Are you an experienced recruiter who thrives on developing others?

We’re hiring a Sales Trainer to take a leading role in driving commercial excellence within a high-growth search firm. This position is all about elevating consultant performance on the sales floor, building skill, confidence, and capability across the team.

This is an immersive, on-desk training position where you’ll work directly with consultants at every level, from graduates taking their first calls to seasoned hires refining their edge.
Your day-to-day will involve live call shadowing, real-time coaching, and embedding habits that fuel long-term success.

Alongside this, you’ll contribute to structured training programmes covering everything from market understanding and client development to sourcing, pitching, and deal execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver hands-on sales training through live call shadowing, real-time feedback, one-to-one coaching, and desk-side refreshers on sourcing, outreach, client engagement, pitching, and closing.
• Act as a trusted coach and role model, reinforcing high-performance behaviours and supporting consultants across all levels.
• Partner with management to identify skills gaps and build targeted training interventions that directly enhance performance.
• Monitor consultant development against training goals and probation milestones, providing structured feedback to leadership.
• Strengthen leadership capability by equipping managers with coaching tools and embedding a consistent performance framework.
• Gather feedback and performance data to continually refine training content and maximise commercial impact.
• Research and introduce new methods, tools, and techniques to maintain an innovative and commercially relevant training offering.
• Support the firm’s graduate training academy, ensuring new joiners acquire strong habits quickly and confidently.
• Build effective relationships across the business to coordinate training activity aligned with commercial priorities.
• Act as a cultural champion promoting learning, growth, accountability, and high standards.

What We’re Looking For

• Background in agency recruitment or executive search within a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
• Passion for developing people - enjoys coaching, shadowing, and sharing knowledge practically and constructively.
• Energetic, confident, and commercially minded; able to directly connect training to revenue outcomes.
• Highly proactive and adaptable, comfortable operating in a scale-up setting.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to give clear, constructive, and actionable feedback.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to balance on-desk coaching with broader training projects.

What’s in it for you?

• Direct influence on consultant performance and business outcomes.
• Be part of an ambitious growth journey, including US expansion.
• A genuinely high-performance culture that values its people and invests in their development.
• An opportunity to innovate and shape the future of the firm’s People & Culture function.
• Purpose-led environment with strong values and big ambitions.
• Competitive salary, bonus, and benefits, plus ongoing development investment.
• Hybrid working model, energetic office culture, and regular socials.

With an outstanding working culture, and impressive benefits and salary package offering, this is a fantastic opportunity to take your career to the next level.

Tick the boxes and want to know more? Please apply with your most up to date CV, and if successfully shortlisted we will be in touch within 48 hours.

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