Mandarin Chinese Recruiter and Account Manager

JOB TITLE: Chinese speaking Bilingual Recruiter/Account Manager

TEAM : China Desk

LANGUAGE: Fluent Mandarin Chinese and English

LOCATION London

VISA: You must a valid UK visa

SALARY: Negotiable + generous bonus scheme, private health care, pension and a culture of personal autonomy

THE COMPANY

ABL the language specialists, is a small specialist bilingual recruitment and translation services agency and the market leader in recruiting multilingual support staff to international businesses in London, and abroad. We celebrated 31 years in business last year and are still growing. Our clients include global banks, fashion houses, travel companies, property companies, market research companies and household names in various sectors. We are looking to take on a motivated Chinese speaking Recruitment Consultant with a commercial and “consultative” outlook to continue to grow the Chinese business that we do. You will need to be client-service driven, and be happy to develop new business as well as nurture existing relationships

We have a small office in Covent Garden, but the role will be WFH for the moment.

THE JOB

As a Chinese speaking Recruitment Consultant you will need to source Chinese speaking applicants ( using WeChat , Linkedin and advertising), develop business from existing clients and also develop new business. The aim is to build very long-term relationships with companies looking for Chinese speaking employees.

THE DAY TO DAY INVOLVES

This role involves B2B New Business Development as well as Relationship Management of existing portfolio of clients.

This is a target driven sales role.

B2B New Business Development/Portfolio Management

• Cold calling/Courtesy calling: Driving new business effort: you will be given a curated list of lapsed and new clients to contact and introduce our service
• Attending networking events
• Introducing our recruitment and translation services to international companies.
• You will be working to agreed monthly revenue targets
• Sending staying-in-touch courtesy emails or making calls to existing new clients
• Establishing excellent relationships with clients for the long term, building up a profile of their corporate staffing and language (including translations) requirements

B2C Interviewing

• Interviewing candidates face to face and via skype for roles
• Meeting corporate clients at their offices to learn about their requirements
• Taking down detailed job briefs, “matching” candidates to vacancies
• Providing a top notch after-care service to clients and to candidates alike

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Previous experience as an Agency Recruitment Consultant
• A desire to succeed in a caring, client driven, “soft” sales environment
• Degree educated (ideally)
• Fluent Mandarin Chinese
• Fluent English
• Experience of working in the UK