Recruitment Team Leader
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Leadership opportunity with competitive compensation and strong growth potential; appeals to experienced candidates aiming for team management roles.
- Competitive salary with commission
- Leadership role with significant responsibility
- Opportunity for professional advancement
- High expectations for performance output
Pros
- Opportunity to lead and mentor a team
- Uncapped commission structure
- Significant career progression potential
Cons
- High pressure for team performance
- Challenges in maintaining morale and performance
- Requires substantial industry knowledge and experience
Who it's for
Mid to Senior-level • Office-based
Good fit
- Experienced team leaders
- Candidates wishing to expand their leadership skills
- Those motivated by performance-based rewards
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without team leadership experience
- Individuals preferring non-sales roles
- Someone who prefers a less demanding job environment
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Bristol, Somerset
TeacherActive
Join our team and lead your way to success!
TeacherActive, a leading Education recruitment agency, is seeking an experienced Team Leader to lead a dedicated team in Bristol.
Take charge of your career and inspire your team towards hitting their targets with a competitive industry package.
The Role of a Team Leader:
- Having full accountability of a team, taking responsibility for their management and performance against budget
- Leading from the front to develop business alongside your team
- Ensure delivery of key activity within your team
- Motivating the team to gain the highest possible outcomes, though activity, whilst balancing wellbeing
- Retain existing staff through effective relationships, culture, and community
- Demonstrate that you are undertaking proactive activity to manage any vacancies within your team and identifying candidates with potential
- Organising Marketing, to generate an ongoing healthy pipeline of candidates and clients, using a combination of both traditional and digital methods
- Recruiting excellent teaching and learning support professionals for schools across your designated geographical area
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients
- Ensuring strict adherence to TeacherActive’s compliance standards
- Interacting with customers on a regular basis to ensure high levels of satisfaction and to act on feedback
- Headhunting candidates for specialist teaching, eLearning and leadership roles where required
- Embodying TeacherActive’s culture and company values
- Adhering to high ethical and professional standards
- Reflecting on your own performance to continually improve your knowledge, skills and development
- On-going positive contribution within the Leadership Development Group (LDG)
- Maintaining an in depth understanding of the education sector to maximise potential opportunities
- Stand in for the Business Manager during annual leave/absence
Key skills required:
- Previous recruitment experience
- Proven track record of exceeding growth and GP targets
- Ability to drive strong activity levels
- Previous work within a high compliance sector
- Strong customer service skills
- A high standard of written and oral communication skills
- Proactive work with central support teams
- Outstanding organisation skills and strong attention to details
- Intermediate computer skills
To apply, you’ll ideally have strong agency experience within education or health/social care recruitment however other industries would still be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Award winning training and coaching programme, with dedicated learning and development consultants focused on your success.
- Uncapped commission with no threshold
- Team performance based bonus
- Team leader reward framework, enabling you to increase your basic salary by hitting key milestones
- Fantastic career and promotion opportunities, recognising your success
- Milestone celebrations including lunches, day trips and holidays
- Up to 30 days annual leave including your birthday day off and a life admin day!
- Reduced working hours during school holidays
- Work from home allowance
- Private health care after a qualifying period
- Discounted Gym Membership and high street discounts
- Champagne Fridays!
Working Hours:
- Term time- 07:30am start finishing between 4:30-5:30pm
- School holidays-08:30-3:30pm or 9:00-4:00pm (opportunities to leave earlier)
- Office based – full time
If you are looking for a new opportunity as a Team Leader with a progression and reward framework and a an amazing earning potential then apply now!
Jacky Spragg
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