Associate Executive Search Consultant

About the role

This is a launchpad for your career. As an Associate Consultant, you'll be ready to level up. You'll learn how to think like a headhunter, build like a founder, and take off like a rocket.

What You'll Do

Search Delivery & Research

• Partner with senior consultants and Directors to deliver high-impact executive searches and recruitment projects that actually move the needle for our clients.
• Map out industries, companies, and talent trends to build sharp, data-backed search strategies.
• Source standout candidates who make you say, "They'd change everything for that client."
• Own the end-to-end recruitment process: headhunting, interviewing, coordinating, and closing.
• Take full ownership of operational roles, from Front of House and General Managers to VPs and COOs - roles that define the DNA of our client brands.
• Keep searches organized, efficient, and moving forward. No black holes. No dropped balls. Only the very best candidates in the market.

Business Development Support

• Support in identifying potential new business opportunities through thorough research of live LinkedIn, careers pages, and job board postings of vacancies within our field of expertise.
• Proactively perform BD outreach to new clients, introducing our services and the Global Director.
• Build pipelines of vacancies for the Global Director and you to pursue in order to win high-level work for yourself and the rest of the whole team.
• Join new client introductory calls alongside the Global Director to assist and learn how to win new business.
• Own the creation of BD materials such as speculative CVs, Candidate Highlight Profiles, Bespoke Proposals, and market insight data sheets.
• Act as the "on-the-ground" contact point for US- or Canadian-based client meetings and site visits. Represent Bottle Rocket face-to-face as a highly knowledgeable, professional, innovative, and personable partner to potential clients.

Candidate & Client Engagement

• Write irresistible job briefs and outreach messages that cut through the noise.
• Build trust fast: with candidates, with clients, and with your own instincts.
• Leverage relationships with candidates and clients to expand our reach and insights, i.e., gaining referrals to top candidates and facilitating intros into hiring managers of new clients.
• Take shared ownership of client relationships and communications.

Brand & Growth

• Build your own voice and personal brand on LinkedIn: be seen, be known, be followed.
• Embrace the tools, tech, AI, and systems that make you more efficient, and free you up for high-value work.
• Bring ideas. Bottle Rocket isn't static: it's evolving. And your fingerprints should be all over that evolution.

Requirements

• A highly motivated mindset, ready to make moves in the exciting and fast-paced world of global recruitment.
• An independent and proactive approach to working, built through a culture of evidence-based trust and success.
• Highly communicative teamwork.
• The ability to perform to high standards in a remote work environment, i.e., being contactable, keeping calendars up to date, having fast and reliable Wi-Fi / phone signal, and maintaining a productive home-working environment.
• Keen attention to detail and highly organised.

Qualifications

You will either:

• Have 2-5 years of recruitment experience (ideally in a 360 role in a relevant field)
• OR be highly experienced in customer-facing or sales-based roles within one of our specialist industries: Coworking, Commercial Real Estate, Workplace and Facilities Management, or Luxury Hospitality.
• Have a desire and hunger to succeed in an independent role.
• Bring a positive, can-do energy to match the awesome team culture we've already established.

Benefits

• A truly 100% remote role. Want to work from home? Go ahead. Want to work from a Balinese beach bar? I encourage you to. We live and breathe the opportunity to work, travel, and play.
• A highly rewarding, uncapped commission scheme.
• Quarterly rewards for High Achievers, ranging from cash vouchers to international team meet-ups and experiences.

We really are building something special here at Bottle Rocket Search. We're beating records and growing our client base quarter-on-quarter. Through hard work, smart hiring, and successful BD efforts, you'll have the chance to grow from Associate Consultant to Senior Consultant, and beyond into leadership, client partnerships, and ownership-level impact across our global brands. There's no corporate structure navigating your career. You build your own career pathway, and we navigate it together. You'll learn the art of headhunting, business development, negotiation, storytelling, and human connection. If you bring curiosity, hunger, and heart, we'll give you everything else.