Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

As the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, you will take the lead on all specialist and senior hiring of colleagues into the Partnership. Using specialist hiring methodologies to reach out directly to the market, building specialist talent pools and advising the hiring community on specific routes to market.

You will work closely with, and deputise for, the Talent Acquisition Manager. You’ll be responsible for leading by example and role modelling best practice in all things Talent Acquisition. Coaching the TA team on hiring best practice, you will take accountability for ensuring that we attract brilliant and talented people to help the business deliver its long-term strategy.

To be successful you need to be an experienced, self-motivated and collaborative recruitment professional, who has experience managing vacancies from end to end. It is essential that you have experience working across multiple disciplines, with an ability to work in a fast-paced environment, have a passion for providing an exemplary candidate experience and have excellent stakeholder management skills.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract, hybrid role, based in our Swindon office, with the requirement to be in the office 2 days a week.

• Demonstrable recruitment experience, ideally gained from agency and in-house.
• Experience recruiting senior individuals, managing the end-to-end process.
• Exemplary candidate management skills and a passion for candidate experience.
• Proven experience with direct hiring, utilising multiple candidate sourcing and attraction methods.
• Proficient in all areas of direct candidate attraction and search, assessment and selection.
• Financial Services recruitment experience would be an advantage.
• Competent user of different Applicant Tracking Systems.
• It is essential that you have experience working in a fast-paced environment, managing conflicting priorities and delivering to deadlines.
• Fantastic interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Positive, proactive, able to use your own judgement and initiative.
• Strong commercial awareness, up to date with emerging market trends in Talent Acquisition.
• Takes responsibility for delivering and achieving targets, with a natural customer focused approach.
• Remains calm under pressure, particularly at peak periods where workloads can be challenging.

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.