Skills Alliance is a high-growth, global Recruitment and Executive Search firm specialising in Life Sciences, Industrials and wider STEM. We partner with some of the world’s leading Biotech, Pharma, Medical Devices, and MedTech organisations, helping them build high-impact teams globally.

The role:

Following an exceptional year of performance across our global offices, we are expanding our London team. This opportunity is ideal for someone from a transferable background (such as sales, business development, or another client-facing role) who is looking to transition into recruitment and build a long-term career in a high-growth, high-reward environment.

Trainee Recruitment Consultant

Start date: Jan/Feb 2026

Location: London

What does this role involve?

• Discover and headhunt high‑calibre candidates for mid‑senior level and retained roles.
• Business Development and forging relationships with clients across your market globally. This is a client facing role with a lot of autonomy. You'll not only be responsible for bringing in and attracting clients, but managing accounts once they are onboarded.
• Manage the whole candidate journey. That's everything from screening and interviewing candidates, to interview feedback, to negotiating offers and delivering the news.
• Become the go‑to expert in your market. We work in one of the most exciting markets globally, and you'll become an expert in your area pretty quickly!

What can we offer you?

Earning potential

Recruitment is one of the few careers where you can make a lot of money early in your career. Our commission structure goes up to 50% with no threshold.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Monthly wellness budget & wellness days
• Private healthcare
• Charity days
• Birthday off (and more)

Incentives & perks

• Quarterly lunch & breakfast clubs
• Fully paid annual incentive trips
• Dress-down Fridays with early finish
• Regular team socials

Development & progression

• Structured training from day one
• Continuous feedback and coaching from top performers
• Clear progression framework – we aim to promote new joiners twice within their first year

Who are we looking for?

• Experience in a transferable role, for example sales, is highly desirable.
• No university degree or similar higher education is required.
• Rewards are high here, so its a plus if you are motivated by performance based rewards on top of your basic salary.
• Competitive, resilient, and ambitious approach to your work.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, you will be talking to people all around the world all day!
• Excited to learn, improve and be trained. You want to get 1% better each day.
• You enjoy a fast‑paced, high‑impact environment surrounded by high performers and want to get stuck into building a long term career from day one.

This role will initially be on site while you're learning (usually your first few months), then will be on our hybrid structure which is 3 days in the office, 2 working from home.

If you’re the kind of person who wants to build a career with real progression, and cares about working in a supportive, social environment, apply here or email eleanor.smith@skillsalliance.com.