Partnership Recruitment Team Manager in Swindon

The opportunity Growing our adviser headcount is at the heart of our missions and key to the future of our Partnership. This role drives the delivery of the Openwork Partnership’s growth strategy by enabling consistent, high‑quality adviser recruitment activity across the network. You'll provide motivation, leadership, coaching and oversight to ensure ambitious targets are achieved, processes are improved and our customers are delighted. You'll bring direction, organisation and energy to an already thriving recruitment team, passionate about what we do. The role is a connector across Recruitment, Marketing, Onboarding and the wider Partnership to remove barriers, improve ways of working and strengthen our presence in the external market.

The benefits include:

• Salary - £60,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 15%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

The role involves:

• Lead, coach and develop a team of recruiters to deliver a first class adviser recruitment service.
• Own delivery governance for adviser recruitment, ensuring effective planning, prioritisation and resource allocation.
• Build effective working relationships across recruitment, marketing, onboarding, development and central teams to deliver a seamless end‑to‑end candidate journey.
• Drive proactive sourcing activity (market mapping, referrals, networks and direct search) to build a sustainable pipeline of high‑quality adviser candidates.
• Partner with marketing to maximise the use of campaigns and materials, ensuring a consistent and compelling proposition is communicated to prospective advisers.
• Oversee candidate management from initial engagement through onboarding handover, supporting a positive experience and reducing early attrition.
• Track and report key recruitment metrics (activity, pipeline, conversion, quality and time‑to‑appoint), providing insight and actions to improve performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, tools and ways of working; share best practice and embed consistent standards across the team.

What will you need to succeed?

• Demonstrable experience leading and coaching a recruitment or sales team from within financial services, ideally advice.
• Developed stakeholder management skills, experience working with multiple teams to deliver the end‑to‑end hiring journey.
• Proven ability to manage by data: setting targets, tracking KPIs (pipeline, conversion, time‑to‑appoint, quality).
• Experience improving recruitment processes and ways of working, balancing pace with quality and governance.
• Maintains a sound understanding of the UK financial advice market, competitor propositions and adviser career pathways.
• Clear, credible communication, able to tailor messages for candidates, senior stakeholders and cross‑functional partners.
• Ability to influence, build trust, align priorities, and negotiate outcomes to remove barriers and deliver at pace.
• Confidence when presenting, sharing insight, and representing the proposition to internal and external audiences.
• Accountability mindset, delivers on commitments, maintains accurate updates, and drives actions through to completion.
• Understanding of proactive sourcing and attraction strategies.
• Data‑led mindset, confident using data to track pipeline, conversion and quality and drive performance interventions.
• Resilience, remains calm under pressure, resolves issues at pace, and removes blockers through effective collaboration.

Why us? At The Openwork Partnership, 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.