Manager - Data & AI

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Recruiter, or an established Recruitment Leader, to start an AI & Data practice from our London office. This would initially be focused on permanent appointments, but there would be scope to also deliver against contract opportunities.

As a strategic investment, this new team already has a significant budget set aside for headcount growth, marketing, networking events or conferences, and technology purchases. For the right person, this is an opportunity to rapidly grow a leading practice within Empiric, during the most exciting years in the company’s history.

Who We Are

Empiric is an award-winning* technology recruitment company. Our success is built on the platform we provide for our people to flourish (*Think five consecutive years as a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 UK Company and #1 Best Mid-Sized Company to Work For as examples).

The approach is simple: give brilliant people the tools, support, and freedom to go and be brilliant. We are already very successful in several niche technology verticals, and we are now looking to add AI & Data to our markets.

To Be Successful

If this sounds like an opportunity to accelerate you towards your career and financial goals, and you would like to work in a high-performing, collaborative and ambitious environment, you may have found a home.

What we look for in you:

• We value our culture above all else, so we are very selective about who joins the team. Beyond any practical experience, we place immense importance on the person you are. The key attributes we look for are resilience, drive, curiosity, and your ability to be a team player.
• Recruitment experience in AI & Data. As this is a strategic investment, we need the figurehead to be someone who has a track record of recruitment success within the area we are targeting.
• Business development experience. To start any recruitment practice, there is a period where you will be required to win and nurture customers to provide a good flow of requirements to your team. You should have experience and prior success in doing this.
• People management experience. It would be fantastic if you already have some experience in people management. However, if you are currently an individual contributor looking to move into leadership, and you have the experience we are looking for in AI & Data, then we can provide plenty of training and support to transition you into Leadership.

Why Empiric?

Our Commitment to Your Aspirations.

To achieve your Financial aspirations:

We know that, above all else, being a successful Recruiter Leader is a path to financial freedom. That is why our approach puts personal financial rewards front and centre:

• We are positioned at the very top of the specialist IT recruitment market. Our margins, as well as the average salaries and rates of the individuals we place, reflect that. Specialist recruiters earn more.
• There is no such thing as a ‘Soft Landing’ in recruitment. But with twenty years in our market, hundreds of paying customers, many of whom are blue-chip, international businesses, and guaranteed jobs to work on day one, there are harder places for you to start a new division. You will be supported in making introductions to all our customers that could be relevant for your division.
• Placements are how you make money, so we spend heavily on giving you the tools to make as many of them as possible. As standard, you and your team will get – LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Talent Insights, LinkedIn Adverts, access to multiple Job Boards, Lusha, Ebsta, Daxtra and Salesforce. We will always invest in ways to make your team's job easier.
• We have a sizeable and passionate Operations & Marketing Team. They aim to ‘clear the runway’ for you so that you can fly. With less ‘admin’ comes more time to do what you are best at.
• And once you make placements, we will pay you more for completing those placements than you would receive at any comparable recruitment business. We have no threshold, and our commission scheme accelerates quickly to 35%.

To help you achieve your Career aspirations:

As well as ownership over your earnings, we want you to have ownership over your career. And true career ownership looks like having the skills, knowledge, and opportunity to turn your work into what you want it to be. At Empiric, that means:

• You will have clear, transparent Promotion Criteria from day one. We don’t promote on tenure; we promote on performance. And due to our mentality of ‘unlimited growth’, there is never a wait to take up a position you have rightfully earned. Your hiring triggers will be agreed as part of the business planning process, and when you deliver those targets, you will be backed to grow.
• We expect that the person who takes this role would be on a pathway to a seat on the Board.
• ‘Market Leading L&D’ gets thrown out a lot in job adverts. But with 1 full-time member of our Learning & Development and People Team for every 20 Recruitment Consultants, you can judge us on our actions, not our words. Think bespoke, embedded and forward-thinking learning each day. This support will be invaluable as you scale your team.
• Great people become great by being surrounded by great people. Daily, you will work with recruitment leaders recognised across our industry as some of the best.
• Our entire Personal Development Programme is designed to make you the best version of yourself, not just the best recruiter you can be.

To help you achieve your personal aspirations:

We are a group of like-minded, high-performing individuals. But we are also all wonderfully unique. Whatever your hobbies, interests or passions, at Empiric, you will find a vehicle to pursue the things that matter to you:

• As we operate in over 40 countries and have six offices across Europe and the USA, we support our people in travelling, working, and even relocating fully to the places they want to be. While this division will start in London, there will be scope to launch in other locations once we are established.
• Social enterprise and charity work is more important now than ever. We are proud to support our people in supporting the causes that matter to them. We would be equally proud to support you in causes that matter to you.
• We cannot complete your bucket list for you, but we may be able to help. We run once-in-a-lifetime holiday incentives multiple times each year. We also regularly take our team out for incredible dining experiences or trips to major sporting events each month. Think Mexico, think Royal Ascot, and think many, many Michelin Stars along the way. This is all investment in motivating and rewarding your team, but also a reward and thank you for all of your hard work.

We expect there to be a lot of interest in this position, so please register your interest quickly to avoid disappointment.

You can apply by visiting our website or contact us and ask to speak to Adam Bush.