Partnership Recruitment Consultant

The opportunity

As a Recruiter in our Financial Advice Recruitment Team, you will work closely with advice firms across The Openwork Partnership network, You will support in recruiting both employed and self-employed Financial Advisers and Mortgage & Protection Advisers, playing a key role in delivering growth plans and contributing to the long-term success of the Partnership.

Working as part of the wider recruitment team, you'll deliver an outstanding end-to-end recruitment service, partnering with firms across the UK to understand their needs, identify high-quality talent and manage the recruitment process.

This is a proactive recruitment role that requires a strong focus on candidate attraction, relationship management, business development within our current network and talent pipelining.

This is a Hybrid opportunity with regular presence in our Swindon Head Office.

The benefits:

• Salary – £50,000 + commission
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and we’ll match you with an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection - 1x salary
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• Up to 3 working days per year of paid time to participate in volunteering activities
• A Wide range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Your responsibilities will include:

• You will Partner with adviser firms across The Openwork Partnership to adopt their growth and recruitment objectives.
• Managing the end-to-end recruitment process for Financial Advisers and Mortgage & Protection Advisers in both employed and self-employed roles.
• Taking detailed vacancy briefs and providing expert recruitment advice to firms.
• Proactively sourcing, headhunting and engaging high-calibre candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, networking, referrals and market mapping activities.
• Building and maintaining talent pipelines of Financial Advisers and Mortgage & Protection Advisers across the UK.
• Developing strong relationships with firm principals, hiring managers and key stakeholders to recognise current and future hiring needs.
• Identifying and driving new recruitment opportunities within the Partnership network.
• You will manage multiple vacancies simultaneously while delivering an exceptional candidate and client experience.
• Coordinating interviews, managing offer negotiations and supporting candidates through onboarding and joining processes.
• Providing market insight, recruitment trends and salary benchmarking to firms.
• Advising firms on selection, assessment and attraction strategies to achieve successful hiring outcomes.
• Collaborating with internal teams and stakeholders to ensure recruitment activity supports wider business objectives.
• Working to agreed recruitment targets, KPIs and service standards.

What will you need to succeed?

• Previous experience recruiting Financial Advisers, Wealth Managers, Mortgage & Protection Advisers or other adviser-facing financial services professionals would be highly advantageous.
• Understanding of employed and self-employed adviser recruitment models.
• Experience of proactive sourcing, headhunting and talent pooling.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Commercially minded with the ability to identify opportunities and influence hiring decisions.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and working in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Excellent communication, organisation and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of FCA-regulated environments would be beneficial.
• Passion for delivering outstanding service and building long-term relationships.
• Knowledge of adviser charging models, employed and self-employed adviser structures, and the regulatory requirements associated with adviser recruitment.
• Ability to identify potential compliance considerations during the recruitment process and ensure candidates meet the appropriate qualification and regulatory standards.
• Proven ability to build and maintain talent pipelines through networking, referrals, market mapping and proactive candidate engagement.
• Experience working to recruitment KPIs, placement targets and service level agreements.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM systems and candidate sourcing tools to identify and engage passive talent.

Why us?

We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.