Canopius (www.canopius.com) is a global specialty lines (re)insurer. We are one of the leading insurers in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Bermuda.

The Talent Acquisition team is responsible for attracting and hiring staff for all departments in the UK region. The team will support the business with strong recruitment guidance and time efficient support to help them achieve their business workforce plans by attracting and hiring the best talent.

We are seeking a high performing Talent Acquisition Adviser who through their natural passion for attracting and hiring talent, will effectively support the business with a robust and relevant recruitment process and provide a positive hiring experience for all candidates, showcasing Canopius’ positive culture and brand.

The Talent Acquisition Adviser will report to the Lead Talent Acquisition Manager in Manchester and will be part of the wider HR Capability function.

The Talent Acquisition Adviser will successfully manage 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 partner business managers to attract and hire top talent for vacancies, working collaboratively with recruitment agencies / search firms (when appropriate) and keeping recruitment costs competitive at an appropriate level.

Responsibilities

• Positively partner and support business areas to manage the full life-cycle of recruitment for vacancies through to offer stage e.g. conduct meaningful ‘briefing’ intake meetings, screen cvs, hold agency briefings, conduct initial HR screening including competency interviews, prepare a shortlist of candidates, provide candidate feedback and to act as their recruitment ‘expert’.
• Support business with devising appropriate recruitment job specs for internal and external advertising, ensuring role accountabilities, skills and experience are clear and in line with Canopius’ career framework.
• Robustly and correctly manage the correct approvals for all roles in line with internal requirements.
• Consistently engage and support the business to understand and utilise 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, recruitment agents and various databases to enable the attraction of the best talent in the market.
• 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 recruitment cost expenditure.
• Showcase and increase participation in the Canopius Employee Referral Scheme for all roles.
• 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.
• Engage and provide positive support with any recruitment efforts ‘Early Careers’ roles such as Internships, Graduates, Apprentices.
• Embrace and support change with the optimisation of our recruitment system.
• Collaborate with the wider HR Function to ensure a seamless and professional on-boarding experience for new joiners.
• Continuously review and implement recruitment processes and policies.

Skills and Experience

• Adapting to change: Good experience as a Recruitment Consultant / Partner within the Insurance industry (preferred) or within Financial Services industry. Understands business resourcing needs and challenges, monitors pulse of market for roles 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. Demonstrable experience with recruitment systems and processes and is curious and engaged to optimise recruitment processes where needed.
• Future Focused: Ability to learn and understand the market landscape for relevant vacancies and understanding market challenges for roles. Is keen to learn hiring best practices.
• Resilience: Ability to manage competing pressures well and meet relevant deadlines.
• Ability to create and update recruitment reporting and metrics, with good working knowledge of Excel, MS Office and a recruitment systems such as Oracle HR.
• Good knowledge of UK hiring employment law and practices.

About Us

Our benefits
We offer all employees a comprehensive benefits package that focuses on their whole wellbeing. This includes hybrid working, a competitive base salary, non-contributory pension, discretionary bonus, insurances including health (family) and dental cover, and many other benefits to enhance financial, physical, social and psychological health.

About Canopius
Canopius is a global specialty lines (re)insurer. We are one of the leading insurers in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Bermuda.
At Canopius we foster a distinctive, positive culture which enables us to bring our whole selves to work to flourish as people, and build a business which delivers profitable, sustainable results.
Based in incredible new offices in the heart of the City of London, Canopius operates a flexible, hybrid working model and is committed to providing an environment that challenges employees to be their best and where everyone's unique contributions are recognised, valued and respected.
We are fully committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are made regardless of age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion or beliefs, marital or caring status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage and welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds.
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