We’re looking for an experienced In-house Recruiter to join our growing team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. You’ll play a key role in supporting recruitment across the business, with a particular focus on marketing roles, while also helping to hire across areas like compliance, risk, finance, business development, and operations when needed.

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your recruitment expertise into a successful FTSE 250 company that’s passionate about building high-performing teams and delivering an exceptional candidate experience. You’ll enjoy a hybrid working model (split between home and our Manchester office) and the chance to partner across a broad range of business functions in a varied, rewarding role. Joining a high-performing, friendly HR and recruitment team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced, supportive environment where your ideas and contributions will be genuinely valued.

What you’ll be doing:

• Partner with hiring managers to understand their needs and deliver tailored recruitment strategies.
• Own the end-to-end recruitment process, from writing job adverts to sourcing, interviewing, and managing offers.
• Use a range of direct sourcing tools including LinkedIn, headhunting, job boards, social media, and networking.
• Build strong candidate pipelines and talent pools to support future hiring needs.
• Champion a brilliant candidate experience, from first contact through to offer.
• Use our ATS (SmartRecruiters) to manage candidate records, ensuring accurate data and seamless handovers to our recruitment admin team.
• Support our commitment to regulatory compliance and best practice recruitment, including consumer duty.
• Stay active in the recruitment community and help enhance AJ Bell’s reputation as an employer of choice.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in permanent recruitment, either in-house or agency-side.
• Experience hiring marketing professionals is essential.
• Confident managing a busy recruitment portfolio with competing priorities.
• Strong direct sourcing skills,especially on LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Organised, detail-focused and self-sufficient.
• Working knowledge of recruitment compliance and UK hiring legislation.
• Broader experience recruiting across finance, compliance, customer services, or operations.
• Institute of Recruiters (or equivalent) qualification.

About us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 620,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £96.1 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ forsix consecutive yearsand in 2024 named a Great Place to Work.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

What we offer:

• Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free onsite gym
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.