Talent Acquisition Advisor - Fixed Term Contract

The Role:

To successfully deliver the end-to-end recruitment for UK roles, meeting business recruitment demands and strategic business workforce plans and to support the ongoing optimisation of our recruitment strategy and processes. This role will undertake a proactive approach to successfully partnering business managers to attract and hire top talent for vacancies, working collaboratively with recruitment agencies/search firms (when appropriate) and contributing to keeping recruitment costs competitive at an appropriate level.

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract until May 2026

Key Responsibilities:

• Positive partnership with business managers to review and create business workforce plans.
• Support business managers to create appropriate offers to candidates, leveraging internal and external data and benchmark data and correctly following internal approval processes.
• Positively partner and support business areas to manage the full life-cycle of recruitment for vacancies, including building talent pipeline, within their teams, through conducting meaningful ‘briefing’ intake meetings and probing key questions to ensure role requirements are clear and adopting internal recruitment job specs and approval processes.
• Engage, educate the business and drive the use of Canopius’ career band competency questions in line with Canopius’ career framework and inclusive hiring processes.
• Build and manage candidate pipelines using a range of networks, including the Lloyds Market, LinkedIn and various databases to enable fulfilment of roles in line with recruitment specifications.
• Champion best practice related to recruitment processes including embracing system automation changes/testing for process efficiencies.
• Minimise, when appropriate, use of search firms and agencies in order to reduce expenditure.
• Showcase and increase participation in the Employee Referral Scheme.
• Build and maintain good relationships with external recruitment agencies.
• Support process recruitment admin tasks such as sharing with the team, the management of Jobs inbox, responding to speculative employment enquiries and agency enquiries.
• Provide relevant recruitment data for routine management information reports and documents.
• Actively use our HR system to manage roles, approvals to hire, preparing offer letters and associated documentation, contracts, service agreements, etc.

This job description is not exhaustive and may require other ad hoc projects and any other duties as required to support the business or HR function.

Skills and experience:

• Adapting to change: Good experience as a Recruitment Consultant/Partner and understands business resourcing needs and challenges and is ultimately driven to attract talent to the organisation and in times of change.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Good stakeholder management relationship skills with a positive ability to build and sustain positive and collaborative working relationships including ability to guide managers on utilising a structured interview process and appropriate interview techniques/practices.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Positively demonstrates teamwork and collaboration with other colleagues and strives to share knowledge, best practice and work in a collegiate manner.
• Innovation: Able to drive and influence positive business behaviours to implement competency questions/assessments/inclusive hiring processes/positively leveraging hiring system and processes and encouraging managers to do the same.
• Future Focused: Ability to learn and understand the market landscape for relevant vacancies and understanding market pressure points and understands hiring best practices.
• Resilience: Ability to manage competing pressures well and meet relevant deadlines.
• Ability to create and update reporting and metrics, with good working knowledge of Excel.
• Basic knowledge of UK hiring employment law and practices.

Personal Qualities:

• Effective interpersonal skills to adapt to different situations.
• Sensitive to, and maintains confidentiality and dignity of others.
• Maintaining a bias-free approach to situations and people.
• Effective stakeholder management skills with both internal stakeholders, external agencies, and candidates.
• A commercial and pragmatic mind-set.
• Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation levels.
• Proactive and driven to deliver high quality work, carefully following assigned recruitment processes.
• Able to demonstrate initiative, flexibility, efficiency, accuracy and thoroughness.
• Professional, approachable, with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic team player, organised and structured in work approach.
• Inquisitive mindset, asks probing questions, problem solving in nature.
• Positive team player who seeks good collaboration with colleagues and the business and is open to new ideas/processes.