Business Development Manager - Recruitment | UAE & GCC

Are you a recruiter who is better at winning clients than filling desks, and ready to own new business at a growing boutique agency? We're a boutique recruitment firm working across the UAE and wider GCC. Our clients come back to us again and again rather than using us for one-off vacancies. As we scale the team into 2027, we're now adding a Business Development Manager to bring in a constant flow of new clients and live roles, reporting directly to our co-founder, who leads new business. What's in it for you? Salary open, dependent on experience Recurring commission on every invoice from the clients you win, for as long as you’re with us and they keep working with us Reporting directly to a co-founder, with real autonomy from day one A head start on day one, with a lead list built from six years of placement data and a client base you can leverage A small, mature, senior team with no layers of management A firm that's genuinely AI-native, where you'll be supported to use tools like Claude daily to increase productivity and get you infront of more clients (NOT to replace human connection) Room to grow into building and managing a BD team, with 1 to 2 more hires planned in the next 12 months Hybrid setup (2 days in the office, 3 WFH/anywhere) What will you be doing? Generating a consistent flow of new clients and live roles across the UAE and GCC Running outbound every day: calls, social selling, and warm follow-up with past and current clients Pitching, qualifying and negotiating from the first meeting through to signed terms Working closely with our delivery team so every client you win gets a great experience Managing your own pipeline and keeping it clean in our CRM Using AI tools to research accounts and work faster What do you need? A recruitment background with a track record of winning clients, from lead generation through to signed terms Experience selling recruitment to decision-makers in the UAE or GCC Confidence competing against other agencies and winning on quality (Very rarely on price) A client book you can leverage is a big bonus Genuinely AI-native, you use tools like Claude regularly and can show us something you've built or improved with it Resilient, structured and consistent, someone who keeps going when the market is slow 360/270 recruitment experience is helpful, not essential Based in the UAE, fluent English Don't worry if your CV isn't up to date. Share your LinkedIn profile and we'll take it from there. You can also reach me directly if you'd like to find out more. Show more Show less