[Hiring] Talent Partner / Headhunter – Recruiter Acquisition @Legends

Role Description

This role is focused on proactively identifying, engaging, and converting experienced agency recruiters across the UK & Ireland into independent recruitment models. This is not transactional recruiting — the role requires strategic headhunting, consultative outreach, and the ability to influence experienced recruiters through a major career shift.

• Build structured pipelines
• Conduct market mapping exercises
• Manage ongoing outreach campaigns
• Drive recruiter engagement through to conversion
• Understand recruiter psychology, commission structures, objections around risk and stability
• Position non-traditional opportunities effectively

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of solid recruitment/headhunting experience, ideally within Rec-to-Rec or Internal Recruitment environments
• Proven experience headhunting passive candidates rather than purely managing active applicants
• Strong understanding of agency recruitment structures, recruiter motivations, billing models, and commission environments
• Experience placing senior or high-billing recruiters
• Demonstrated experience with market mapping and strategic talent identification processes
• Comfortable conducting cold outreach and high-volume prospect engagement
• Strong follow-up discipline with a process-driven and persistent approach
• Highly credible communicator with strong influencing and commercial skills
• Comfortable selling a non-traditional, entrepreneurial opportunity rather than a salaried role
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong resilience and confidence operating in performance-driven environments
• Stable career history preferred

Requirements

• Proactively market map recruitment agencies, competitor businesses, and target companies across the UK & Ireland
• Identify and headhunt high-performing recruiters with 3–15+ years’ experience
• Build and maintain structured candidate/prospect pipelines using spreadsheets, CRM systems, and tracking processes
• Conduct high-volume outreach through LinkedIn, cold calls, email campaigns, referrals, and networking
• Run consultative and strategic conversations with passive candidates
• Manage full attraction and conversion funnels from outreach through to onboarding interest
• Handle objections around leaving employment, self-employment risk, commission structures, and career stability
• Develop personalized, curiosity-driven outreach messaging and follow-up strategies
• Collaborate on market feedback, positioning, and outreach strategy improvements
• Maintain consistent follow-up processes and engagement across all active prospects