Partnership Recruitment Consultant

About the role

As a Recruiter in our Financial Advice Recruitment Team, you will work closely with advice firms across The Openwork Partnership network. You will support in recruiting both employed and self-employed Financial Advisers and Mortgage & Protection Advisers, playing a key role in delivering growth plans and contributing to the long-term success of the Partnership.

Working as part of the wider recruitment team, you'll deliver an outstanding end-to-end recruitment service, partnering with firms across the UK to understand their needs, identify high-quality talent, and manage the recruitment process. This is a proactive recruitment role that requires a strong focus on candidate attraction, relationship management, business development within our current network, and talent pipelining.

This is a hybrid opportunity with regular presence in our Swindon Head Office.

Responsibilities

• Partner with adviser firms across The Openwork Partnership to adopt their growth and recruitment objectives.
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for Financial Advisers and Mortgage & Protection Advisers in both employed and self-employed roles.
• Take detailed vacancy briefs and provide expert recruitment advice to firms.
• Proactively source, headhunt, and engage high-calibre candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, networking, referrals, and market mapping activities.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines of Financial Advisers and Mortgage & Protection Advisers across the UK.
• Develop strong relationships with firm principals, hiring managers, and key stakeholders to recognise current and future hiring needs.
• Identify and drive new recruitment opportunities within the Partnership network.
• Manage multiple vacancies simultaneously while delivering an exceptional candidate and client experience.
• Coordinate interviews, manage offer negotiations, and support candidates through onboarding and joining processes.
• Provide market insight, recruitment trends, and salary benchmarking to firms.
• Advise firms on selection, assessment, and attraction strategies to achieve successful hiring outcomes.
• Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to ensure recruitment activity supports wider business objectives.
• Work to agreed recruitment targets, KPIs, and service standards.

Requirements

• Previous experience recruiting Financial Advisers, Wealth Managers, Mortgage & Protection Advisers, or other adviser-facing financial services professionals would be highly advantageous.
• Understanding of employed and self-employed adviser recruitment models.
• Experience of proactive sourcing, headhunting, and talent pooling.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Commercially minded with the ability to identify opportunities and influence hiring decisions.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and working in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of FCA-regulated environments would be beneficial.
• Passion for delivering outstanding service and building long-term relationships.
• Knowledge of adviser charging models, employed and self-employed adviser structures, and the regulatory requirements associated with adviser recruitment.
• Ability to identify potential compliance considerations during the recruitment process and ensure candidates meet the appropriate qualification and regulatory standards.
• Proven ability to build and maintain talent pipelines through networking, referrals, market mapping, and proactive candidate engagement.
• Experience working to recruitment KPIs, placement targets, and service level agreements.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM systems, and candidate sourcing tools to identify and engage passive talent.

Benefits

• Salary – £50,000 + commission
• Pension scheme – contribute up to 5% of your salary and we’ll match you with an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection – 1x salary
• Death in service – 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• Up to 3 working days per year of paid time to participate in volunteering activities
• A wide range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance, and much more

About the company

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 colleagues' individual differences and identities. 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.