Senior Team Leader/Associate Director, Canterbury, Kent, hybrid working (2 days in the office), £50-65k basic OTE £100K+, early Friday finish at 2pm.

Are you a natural team leader, able to get the best out of your team and create a collaborative and thriving work environment? Do you have 7+ years of experience in recruitment, preferably in the residential real estate market (but could be within other fast-paced markets also)?

Overseeing a team of juniors and seniors working with individuals to ascertain the best set-up and strategy for the team to be working on. While you will still be expected to bill your quarterly target of £50K, your focus will be on getting your team running smoothly and successfully.

You will have several areas of responsibility:

1 Managing your team

You will be responsible for the overarching organisation of your team as discussed with the senior management team. You will be expected to ensure work is properly cascaded down and that plans and processes are put in place (and respected) to ensure everyone is doing as required.

You will be coaching more senior team members to help you bring up the more junior members of your team.

2) Reviews & mentoring

You will be tasked with overseeing review meetings with each member of your team, providing updates on how they can reach/surpass their goals and billing targets. You will work with them to ensure they have a clear strategy in place and an understanding of what they need to do to help them progress.

You will act as a mentor to them, passing back feedback to the Operations team whenever you believe more external/internal training would benefit an employee.

3) Business development & key account management

It will also be your responsibility to work closely with your senior team members to help them win work and keep good relationships with our clients.

5) Senior team management  

As a key member of the senior management team, you will be expected to attend regular senior team events in which general business matters will be discussed.

The Senior Team Leader/Associate Director will have:

• 7+ years of recruitment experience (preferably in the housebuilding/property market)

• minimum of 3 years running teams of size


• experience in leading team meetings/ running them day to day and critically improving the performance of the collective

Character requirements:

• motivated – success-driven


• data-driven & process-driven


• a strategic thinker who can see the big picture


• able to identify individual’s motivators


• patient but directive– able to calm a team but also steer everyone


• match tdm values


• team player (should want everyone to succeed)


• natural communicator & demonstrative leadership abilities


• likes problem-solving/challenges


• good temperament


• analytical