Recruiter - Asset Management - Investments

M&G; Stirling; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned recruiter to join their dynamic team focused on the Investment sector. This role involves managing the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, fostering partnerships with hiring managers, and innovating sourcing strategies to attract exceptional talent. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial services recruitment, particularly within Investment teams, and a passion for enhancing the candidate experience. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and offers flexible working arrangements to support your success.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle.
• Strong focus on direct sourcing and providing exceptional candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Build recruitment partnerships with leadership in Investment teams.
• Identify and source diverse talent for open roles.
• Maximize technology to improve hiring outcomes.

Skills

Direct sourcing

Stakeholder management

Recruitment lifecycle management

Candidate experience

Market intelligence

Diversity hiring

Executive search

Education

Experience in financial services recruitment

Understanding of regulated hiring practices

Tools

Workday

Job description

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Resourcing function is focused on the delivery of top talent, at all levels, for today and for the future for M&G Plc. The strategy focuses on people, process and technology to gain efficiencies and increase productivity with the outcome of better results for the business, function and candidates.

The team is forward looking, able to understand the changing market and stay ahead of hiring trends. It consists of skilled recruiters with deep business and technical knowledge who can tap into diverse candidate pools and attract top talent into the organisation.

To be successful in this role you will be a seasoned in-house / onsite recruiter, used to managing roles of varying seniority and complexity, with a strong focus on direct sourcing. You will have extensive experience managing the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle and be innovative in how you source candidates directly. You will be passionate about providing exceptional hiring manager and candidate experience in all of your interactions.

The Recruiter will manage hiring activity into our Asset Management business with a focus on the Investment teams.

Key responsibilities for this role:

• Build a true Recruitment partnership with the Investment teams leadership.
• Becoming the recruitment subject matter expert for the Investments teams on all recruitment matters. Not only live roles but also market moves and intelligence.
• Identify and source exceptional diverse talent for open roles within the organisation.
• Build talent pipelines needed for business growth, succession planning and replacement hires.
• Conduct in-depth consultation meetings with hiring managers to appropriately align candidate sourcing activities with the role requirements.
• Partner with, consult and advise hiring managers throughout the entire resourcing lifecycle.
• Provide counsel on all matters resourcing related to HR, Hiring Managers and the wider Resourcing team.
• Create unique ways to source candidates directly including the more traditional avenues such as LinkedIn, job boards, internal and external networks with the objective of significantly reducing third party agency spend.
• Ensure candidates receive a highly positive experience through the entire recruitment process.
• Use MI and data to provide insight to Hiring Managers on recruitment activity.
• Maximise our full range of technology to ensure the very best hiring outcomes.
• Attend functional meetings with Hiring Managers and Business Heads to discuss recruitment activity and represent the Resourcing function.
• Work closely with HR Business Partners and Reward function ensuring they are consulted when required.
• Participate in project workstreams to help drive and deliver the future resourcing functions objectives.
• Actively manage relationships with preferred suppliers and ensure supplier selection meets criteria around diversity and candidate experience.
• Support and champion the assessment and interviewing process.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and take personal accountability to maintain and enhance controls you are responsible for to support improvement of the overall control environment, customers outcomes and a reduction in operational risk.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Experience working within an in-house and ideally agency/RPO capacity, with a specific focus on direct hiring across financial services.
• Previous experience of hiring into Investment team, ideally Public and Private Markets experience.
• Previous experience of running executive searches, the selection of and partnering with executive search firms.
• Previous experience of working with complex offers, including additional compensation schemes, LTIP, Carry schemes etc.
• Previous experience managing an end-to-end recruitment lifecycle.
• Demonstrable experience of senior stakeholder management.
• Excellent direct sourcing capabilities.
• Experience of recruiting a range of roles at varying seniority levels.
• Experience recruiting internationally is an advantage but not essential.
• Understanding of hiring practices in a regulated environment.
• Understanding of the wider HR responsibilities.
• Experience of Workday or similar ATS.

Recruiter: Martyn Jack

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long-term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions. Being a Disability Confident Leader means that candidates who meet the minimum criteria of a job will be offered an interview if they 'opt in' to the scheme when applying.

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