Recruitment Consultant

Recruitment Consultant (Consultant to Principal)

📍 Hybrid, based out of our Port Solent office in Portsmouth

Company & role

Cloud People is a specialist recruitment business working exclusively inside the Microsoft partner ecosystem. We place permanent and contract talent with MSPs, MSSPs and Microsoft consultancies across Azure, Microsoft Security, Data and AI, Copilot and Modern Work.

2025 was our best year to date. With a quarter still to run, we are already 70% ahead of it. The reason we are hiring is straightforward. Demand from our existing customers has outgrown our ‘lean and mean’ model. Q3 alone brought in 50 live vacancies.

This is a 360 role on a genuinely warm desk. You will pick up real, live demand from accounts that already trust us, and you will have the room and the expectation to build your own relationships and grow accounts alongside it. We are open on level. Consultant, Senior or Principal depends entirely on the experience you bring.

Why This Role Stands Out

• A warm desk from day one. 50 vacancies landed in Q3 across three people, so the work is already on the table
• A specialist market with real momentum. Microsoft partners are hiring hard across Azure, Security, Copilot and Data and AI, and that demand is not slowing
• Commission paying up to 30%, with £30,000 to £50,000 realistic in your first year
• Open at Consultant, Senior and Principal level, so you can step up now rather than wait your turn
• We will teach you the Microsoft specialism, and perm or contract if either is new to you
• Small and agile, so you are close to every decision and your results are visible immediately

Key Responsibilities

• Run a full 360 desk across the Microsoft partner market, from brief through to offer
• Service live demand from existing accounts that come back to us with repeat business
• Build your own client relationships and grow accounts beyond a single vacancy
• Source, screen and manage candidates properly, with honest advice on both sides
• Carry multiple live roles at pace and prioritise the ones that will actually land
• Help shape how we run the desk as we grow, rather than inheriting someone else’s process

Ideal Experience

• A proven billing record, typically £100,000 to £300,000 and above per year
• 360 recruitment experience, comfortable on both the client and candidate side
• Confident developing new business as well as servicing warm, established accounts
• Able to handle genuine volume without letting quality slip
• Microsoft market knowledge is not essential, we will teach it
• Perm or contract background both work, we will teach you the other
• Real hunger. This environment rewards people who want more and does not suit anyone looking to coast

If you are a strong biller who wants to niche down into a specialist market with momentum behind it, or step up a level sooner than your current firm will let you, come and talk to us.