"Celebrating 15 successful years in Recruitment"

Specialist Experience

Pearson Whiffin recruit for six key areas of business, across all levels, from entry to senior executive. With over 100 years recruitment experience within the team, we really do know how to find the talent you’re looking for.

The sectors we recruit for include:

• Accounts & Finance

  At Pearson Whiffin, we’ve been successfully placing Accounts & Finance professionals since 2011.  We place all accounts positions from Accounts Admin up to FD & CFO level covering temporary, contract and permanent positions within Kent & London.  Our excellent reputation has been built on trust, honesty and genuine responses to our clients’ needs.  We are confident that our drive and passion to deliver and maintain this level of professional service will see our continued growth in this specialist market.

  Typical roles include:
  Accounts Admin, Accounts Assistant, Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable, Credit Controller, Credit Control Manager, Assistant Accountant, Payroll, Payroll Manager, Reconciliations Clerk / Accountant, Part-Qualified Accountant, Management Accountant, Financial Accountant, Group Accountant, Group Consolidation Accountant, QBE Accountant, Finance Analyst, Finance Manager, Finance Controller, VAT Accountant, TAX Accountant, Practice Accountant, FP&A Manager, M&A Accountant, Finance Director, CFO

• Business Administration

  At Pearson Whiffin we’ve been placing administrative staff of all levels since inception in 2004.  We have built a very strong local reputation with both clients and jobseekers in this sector, often being the first agency instructed.  Whether you’re client looking for a receptionist, sales administrator or an Operations Manager, or a jobseeker looking for a administrative role, please get in touch with one of the team today.

  Typical roles include:
  Receptionist, General Administrator, Sales Administrator, Document Controller, Scheduler, Secretary, Medical Secretary, Legal Secretary, Personal Assistant, Executive Assistant, Office Manager, Operations Manager

• Buying & Merchandising

  At Pearson Whiffin we have been successfully placing Buying/Purchasing professionals since 2004.  Over recent years we have witnessed the increasing reliance that our clients, across all industry sectors, place on e-technology and therefore decided to develop our Buying/Purchasing service offering to include Merchandising.  As a result we are now working with many on-line retail businesses in the fashion and FMCG industry.

  Typical roles include:
  Trainee Buyer, Assistant Buyer, Buyer, Lead Buyer, Buying/Purchasing Manager, Head of Buying/Purchasing, Category Analyst, Category Lead, Category Manager, Demand Planner, Store Merchandiser, On-line Merchandiser, Merchandising Manager, Head of Merchandising

• Construction & Rail

  We specialise in the supply of white-collar professionals across Build, Residential & Commercial, M & E, Fit-out, Civils, Demolition, Groundworks, Plant and Professional.

  Typical roles include:
  Plant Operatives, Site Foremen, Site Supervisors, Finishing Foremen, Finishing Managers, Assistant Site Managers, Site Managers, Construction Managers, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors (all levels), Estimators (all levels), Design Coordinators, Design Managers, Pre-Construction Managers, Health & Safety Managers, Contracts Managers, Commercial Managers and Commercial Directors.

• Customer Service & Contact Centre

  Customer-centric businesses rely on acquiring and retaining the very best Customer Service staff.  Our team has over 50 years’ experience recruiting Customer Service & Contact Centre Staff in Kent and London.  Many of our Customer Service / Contact Centre clients experience high volumes of recruitment and in order for us to best meet the needs of these clients, we offer support creating assessment days to mange the volume.  Please speak to one of our Directors if you could benefit from this service.

  Typical roles include:
  Customer Service/Contact Centre Advisor, Customer Service/Contact Centre Team Leader, Customer Service/Contact Centre Manager, Customer Experience Manager, Customer Insight Analysts, Collections Advisor, Collections Team Leader, Collections Manager

• Education

  Education is constantly changing and as a result it needs adaptable, hard working school staff. Our passion is finding education professionals who can add value to our client schools and help them achieve amazing results. We recruit following Department for Education guidelines, making sure all candidates are met face to face, referenced thoroughly and identity checked in line with Safeguarding and Child Protection standards. All our candidates complete a fully enhanced DBS check through Pearson Whiffin Recruitment to ensure we safeguard our clients and their students.

  Typical roles include:
  Qualified Primary Teacher, Qualified Secondary Teacher, Cover Supervisor, Teaching Assistant, Higher Level Teaching Assistant, School Receptionist and Head of Department.

• Engineering & Technical

  We recruit Engineers and Technical staff across many sectors including Manufacturing, Security, Facilities, HVAC, Design, Quality, Automotive, Aerospace and Construction.  Our team of specialist Consultants have a through understanding of Engineering & Technical recruitment and after 5 years placing these types of roles, we’ve developed an extensive pool of talent within the South East of England.  If you are looking for to recruit a permanent member of staff or a contractor for a particular project, please contact the team.

  Typical roles include:
  Electro/Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Service Engineer, Assembly Engineer, Production Manager, Alarm Engineer, Fire Engineer, Commissioning Engineer, Heating Engineer, Field Service Engineer, Automotive Engineer, Design Engineer, Sales Engineer, Project Engineer, Quality Engineer, Quality Manager, Technical Administrator, Fabricators/Welders, Contracts Managers, Project Managers, Technical Project Managers, Site Managers

• Executive

  We have over 20 years experience working on executive-level and departmental leadership roles and assignments, across a broad spectrum of functional areas in all industries, throughout Kent & London.  For our clients, recruiting an executive level individual is a key factor in the future growth and stability of their organisation, so it is important for us to have a strong executive-level network, that we can tap into.  For the vast majority of executive-level roles, we are engaged by our client partners on a retained basis.

  Typical roles include:
  Chairman, CEO, COO, CTO/CIO, CFO, Executive Director, Operations Director, Director or Operations, Finance Director, Marketing Director, Sales Director, HR Director, Purchasing Director, Client Services Director, Company Director, Commercial Director, Director

• Financial Services

  We have been placing high calibre candidates within the banking, insurance and financial services industry since we opened the business in 2004.  The bulk of our client base is Kent, however in more recent years we’ve developed a strong client base in London.  Our experience within Financial Services enables us to source the best candidates for our clients.  Whatever your immediate or future talent needs in banking, insurance or financial services, Pearson Whiffin Recruitment is ideally placed to support you.

  Typical jobs:

  Banking;
  Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Compliance, Risk, Programme Project & Change Management, PMO, Client Services, Paraplanning, Collections, Analysts

  Insurance;
  Claims, Underwriting, Broking, Risk & Compliance, Analysts, Operations, Project Management, Change Management, PMO

  Financial Services;
  Pensions, Trading, Hedge Funds, Fund & Asset Management, Securities

• Graduates

  We operate a cradle to grave service to our candidates, and as such, are able to offer graduate career consultations, providing realistic and relevant market knowledge in order to help you make the best decisions to kick start your career. Our established and successful relationships with our clients across the board mean that we can offer entry level roles into a wide range of industries.

  We can help you embark upon a career in the following areas: Procurement; Marketing; Sales and Business Development; Engineering; Recruitment; Accounts & Finance; IT; Education;

• Human Resources

  We specialise in finding roles for HR professionals working in compensation and benefits, reward, learning and development, internal recruitment/talent acquisition and hr generalist roles across Kent and London. We recruit for a wide variety of businesses across many industries, ranging from SMEs to FTSE listed blue-chip companies. Our consultants have been recruiting HR professionals throughout Kent and London since inception (2004) and as a result we have a strong network and extensive pool of HR talent.

  Typical roles include:
  HR Administrator, HR Assistant, HR Advisor, HR Manager, HR Operations Manager, Head of HR, HR Business Partner, HR Director, HR Change Manager, HR Consultant, HRIS Analyst, HRIS Manager, Internal Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Manager, Comp & Bens Advisor, Comp & Bens Manager, L & D Manager, L & D Advisor, Reward Manager, Reward Advisor, Training Manager, Trainer

• IT & Digital

  With over 25 years experience across the team our IT Consultants are working with some of the UKs best know organisations from small SME’s to large global corporates.  Our team are skilled at recruiting staff, whether it be permanent or contract at all levels from junior through to senior search and selection.

  Typical roles include:
  Helpdesk Support, 2nd and 3rd line support, Infrastructure Engineer, Network Engineers, Developers (C#, .net, Java, HTML, CSS, PHP), Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Managers, Programme Managers, IT Managers, Heads of IT, IT Directors and CTOs.

• Legal

  Established in 2004 we are an independent recruitment business with a wide network of clients in Kent & London.  Following some great success placing Legal Secretaries & Paralegals within Kent-based law firms, we decided to set up a specialist Legal division.  We work with local, regional, national and international law firms and in-house legal departments, throughout Kent & London.

  Typical roles:
  Solicitors, Legal Assistants, Paralegals, Legal Secretaries & PAs, Legal Cashiers, Support Services (HR, Finance, IT)

• Marketing

  At Pearson Whiffin we have specialised in marketing, comms, creative and agency recruitment since inception in 2004. As a business we cover Client-side, Search, Account Handling, Media Planning and Events.  We specialise across all sectors throughout Kent & London, both freelance and permanent.

  Typical roles include:
  Marketing Graduate, Marketing Assistant/Executive, Marketing Manager, Head of Marketing, Account Handler, Account Director, Media Planner, SEO, PPC, Digital Marketing Manager, Brand Manager, Graphic Designers, Event Coordinator, Event Manager, Internal / External Communications Executive, Internal / External Communications Manager

• Sales

  We have been placing Sales Professionals across Kent & London since inception in 2004.  We recruit the full scope of sales roles across all industries, from SMEs to blue-chip organisations throughout the UK.  At Pearson Whiffin, we appreciate the importance of recruiting the right sales person, so we take time to fully understand the client brief and are thorough in our screening of candidates.  We have built up and extensive talent pool and whether you’re looking for an entry level sales person, or a National Account Manager, we are confident that we can meet the client expectation.

  Typical roles include:
  Telesales, Sales Executive, Sales Team Leader, Sales Manager, Internal Sales, Internal Sales Manager, Sales Director, Area Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, National Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Business Development Director, Head of Sales, Channel Manager, IT Sales Manager, Technical Sales Manager

• Supply Chain & Logistics

  We work with small start-up firms and SMEs right through to blue-chip organisations and have a built a strong reputation and good local knowledge within Supply Chain and Logistics recruitment, across the South East.  Our team of experienced Consultants have a proven track record in identifying and developing relationships with clients and candidates, enabling us to provide you with the best talent and career opportunities in the market. This is why you should make Pearson Whiffin your first call.

  Typical Roles include:
  Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Category Management, Import/Export, Inventory Management, Stock Controller, Logistics, Transport, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Warehousing