Recruitment Partner (12 Month FTC)

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.

About the Role:

As a Recruitment Partner, you will play a key role in supporting one of the world’s leading investment management organisations as part of the Robert Walters Outsourcing team. Acting as a trusted talent acquisition partner to key business stakeholders, you will take ownership of recruitment delivery across Corporate Functions in the UK.

In this role, you will thrive on building strong relationships, influencing hiring decisions, and delivering exceptional recruitment outcomes. Working within a collaborative and high-performing recruitment team, you’ll be supported by dedicated sourcing and coordination specialists, enabling you to focus on what you do best: shaping recruitment strategies, connecting great talent with exciting career opportunities, and driving impactful hiring solutions for the business

What you will be doing:

Strategic Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a trusted recruitment advisor to Hiring Managers, HR colleagues and senior stakeholders across your aligned business areas.
• Build strong relationships, understand business priorities and proactively anticipate future hiring requirements.
• Provide valuable market intelligence, salary insights and recruitment advice to support informed hiring decisions.
• Influence recruitment strategies, challenge thinking constructively and help shape the best approach to attracting talent.
• Ensure thorough and complete tracking history of every applicant progress, contact and feedback through ATS.
• Ensure compliance with all Client policies (including approval systems, compensation policies, e-mail policies etc)

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

• Take ownership of the recruitment lifecycle, from initial vacancy briefing through to offer acceptance.
• Lead engaging vacancy briefing meetings, agreeing sourcing strategies, timelines and candidate requirements.
• Actively sourcing candidates, building talent pipeline and talent pools.
• Manage candidate progression, stakeholder feedback and recruitment activity to ensure a seamless hiring experience.

Candidate Experience & Inclusive Hiring

• Champion an exceptional candidate experience at every stage of the recruitment journey.
• Support inclusive recruitment practices, helping to deliver diverse candidate shortlists and appropriately constituted interview panels.
• Conduct candidate screening and assessment where required, ensuring alignment with role requirements and organisational values.
• Build candidate talent pools and talent maps.
• Build meaningful relationships with candidates, ensuring clear communication and a positive experience throughout.

Continuous Improvement & Collaboration

• Work closely with the wider recruitment team to identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency and service delivery.
• Support recruitment campaigns, talent initiatives, hiring events and wider account projects.
• Use recruitment data, reporting and market insights to identify trends and recommend improvements.
• Maintain accurate recruitment records and ensure adherence to agreed service levels, governance standards and client policies.

Who you are:

Ideally, you'll have:

• Proven experience operating as a Recruitment Partner, Talent Acquisition Partner or equivalent within an in-house or RPO environment.
• Previous recruitment experience within wider financial services sector or banking, asset management (preferred).
• Experience supporting recruitment within a multinational or complex corporate environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to advise, influence and challenge Hiring Managers.
• Demonstrable experience managing multiple vacancies and competing priorities without compromising quality.
• A consultative, solutions-focused approach to recruitment.
• Excellent communication, organisation and relationship-building skills.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems and working within established recruitment governance frameworks.

What Will Make You Successful?

• You'll be someone who enjoys taking ownership, thrives in a collaborative environment and genuinely cares about delivering results.
• You're comfortable operating at pace, building credibility with stakeholders and finding practical solutions to recruitment challenges.
• Most importantly, you understand that great recruitment is about more than filling vacancies. It's about building partnerships, delivering an exceptional experience and making a meaningful contribution to business success.

Why Join Us?

At Robert Walters Outsourcing, you'll have the opportunity to work as part of a dedicated recruitment partnership supporting a globally recognised investment management organisation.

You'll benefit from:

• Strategic exposure: Build relationships with stakeholders across a complex, international business.
• Collaborative delivery: Work alongside dedicated sourcing and coordination specialists.
• Meaningful impact: Influence recruitment decisions and contribute to business-critical hiring outcomes.
• Variety and challenge: Manage a diverse corporate recruitment portfolio and support wider talent initiatives.
• Professional development: Gain experience within an established global recruitment outsourcing organisation.

Benefits:

• A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
• A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
• Private medical insurance
• A fantastic training and development programme
• Volunteer time off
• The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
• Employee wellbeing through various programmes
• You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP

As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.

This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

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