Recruitment Business Partner - Insurance. London. 12 Month FTC

Aon are currently looking for a Recruitment Business Partner to join on a fixed term contract who has experience of recruiting within the Insurance industry to join our team. This is a hybrid role working in our London office. You will be primarily responsible for bringing in the best talent to Aon’s Commercial Risk business. This will require partnering with HR and the divisional hiring managers to deliver an effective and inclusive recruitment and onboarding process.

You will take full ownership of the end-to-end resourcing process, with a key focus on hiring great talent for the business, improving the candidate experience, partnering with the hiring manager and HR and seeing opportunities for further resourcing process efficiencies going forward with an overall goal of helping create a best in class recruitment experience at Aon!

What the day will look like:

• Partner with the HRBPs and business stakeholders to ensure that we have a clear hiring plan in place.
• Lead that plan and ensure it is implemented as effectively as possible considering all sourcing options to ensure the open requirements are filled in a timely manner.
• Hold regular meetings to discuss operational recruitment updates and strategic updates.
• Identify other ways to promote the resourcing process and service offered through regular update meetings.

Sourcing:

• Work in partnership with the hiring managers to create effective, high quality role profiles including person specifications, utilising job description decoder and other tools as relevant to encourage diverse applications.
• Conduct surveys and research to establish suitable advertising opportunities and advertise all roles in most appropriate media, including internally and Aon careers site.
• Encourage social sharing of opportunities and coach managers to utilise their social media networks.
• Partner with employer branding to ensure appropriate visuals, content and strategies to reach the desired diverse target audience.
• Conduct CV mining on appropriate job boards to identify direct candidates.
• Adopt and utilise sourcing tools available.
• Promote the Employee Referral Scheme and handle candidates through this source.
• Partner with agencies to source candidates where necessary.

Conduct and facilitate screening and selection:

• Partner with managers to agree job specific screening questions for the application form and telephone / video interviews, with an eye to D&I and unconscious bias.
• Screen all applications and conduct telephone interviews, assessing candidates’ general suitability for the role.
• Work with the scheduling team to schedule face to face or live video interviews with hiring managers.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the process.
• Ensure adherence to compliance requirements – e.g. completion of pre-screening questions, raise flags to compliance in a timely manner and follow through to resolution.

Offer and Onboarding co-ordination:

• Work with the on-boarding team and the hiring manager to co-ordinate the offer process to ensure candidates get accurate and attractive offers quickly.

Leverage technology:

• Ensure our technology is fully utilised, and all information is accurate within our ATS system.
• Utilise our data with partners to demonstrate our impact.

Diversity & Inclusion:

• Be a role model in D&I by actively seeking opportunities to target a more diverse applicant pool, utilising tools and resources available.
• Coach managers on inclusive recruitment practices; utilise strategies to reduce unconscious bias in the selection process.

Skills and experience that will lead to success:

• You must have experience of recruiting within Insurance.
• Strong direct sourcing experience.
• Ability to build proven relationships with key stakeholders.
• Extensive standard process recruitment and onboarding experience.
• Had exposure to working with an ATS system.
• Results orientation, influencing and communication skills.
• Demonstrate tenacity and resilience in an exciting hiring environment.