Overview
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.
Responsibilities
* Lead, coach and develop a team of recruiters to sales targets, delivering a first‑class adviser recruitment experience.
* Identify and secure opportunities for business development, driving relationships with partner firms.
* 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.
Qualifications
* 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.
Benefits
* Salary – £60,000
* Bonus scheme – on target bonus of 15%
* Pension scheme – contribute up to 5% of salary and Openwork will match with an extra 5%
* Critical illness cover
* Income protection
* Death in service – 4× salary
* 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with an opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
* Private medical insurance, dental insurance and other flexible benefits.
#J-18808-Ljbffr