Recruitment Officer

Admiral Group is a leading FTSE100 Financial Services company with a presence in eight countries. The company was set up in 1993 as a car insurance specialist, but since then the Group has expanded in other countries and other insurance verticals such as household and travel insurance, in loans, price comparison platforms, and has developed innovative products.

Admiral is agile, innovative and not afraid to test new ideas. During the early 2000’s, Admiral created the first price comparison website, and now heads the largest network of price comparison platforms in the world.

The Group launched Admiral Financial Services, focused on personal loans, in 2017. It utilizes the learning gained from the Group’s experience within the insurance sector, and has a focus on data analytics, technology, customer-centricity, and product innovation. 

More recently, the Group has launched new Insuretech propositions, such as Veygo and Homebrella focused on millennials and microinsurance. To provide further resource for business development, a new arm was recently set up called Admiral Pioneer, tasked with exploring and investing in new ventures and emerging consumer needs.

The Group has 7 million customers worldwide and employs over 11,000 people across its operations, with around 7,000 in the UK. Admiral is a growth story with an enviable track-record of strong financial performances, ROE consistently over 50%, a turnover of £3.5 bn and a profit before tax of £520 m in 2019.

Company Culture

Admiral’s philosophy is that ‘people who like what they do, do it better,’ and Admiral is proud to offer an open culture where achievement is rewarded and recognised and where coming to work is exciting every day. In 2019 Admiral received a special award from ‘Best Companies to Work For’ as the only company to feature within their rankings since they began 20 years ago: a true testament to the Group’s culture.

Admiral aims to recruit the best talent and strives to empower its managers and equip them with the tools needed to succeed, including giving them ownership from the onset. Admiral has a digitally focused, entrepreneurial and customer-centric mindset. Managers are encouraged to explore new ideas and have regular exposure to the Group’s CEOs. This is a quite special place where talented individuals can progress their careers, whilst also maintaining a good work-life balance and have fun.

The Opportunity

We have some exciting opportunities to join the Recruitment department and work in our Support Recruitment team, which recruits specifically for our support departments, such as Marketing, IT, Finance, Compliance and many other areas across the business.

We are also looking to recruit within our Graduate and Analyst Team, which oversees and facilitates the recruitment in our Analyst departments and our graduate schemes.

As a Recruitment Officer, you will be responsible for the end to end recruitment process and candidate journey. You will be required to work closely with hiring managers from across the business, advertising, sourcing and hiring the best minds in the industry.

The Recruitment department is made up of a diverse mix of talent from across the business. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from Recruiters that have experience recruiting within or for Financial Services, Fintech, Tech, MBA, and Analyst landscapes.

We are a fun team, passionate about finding top talent and providing a quality service to our candidates and business partners alike.

Main Duties:

• Defining and driving forward departmental recruitment strategies
• Foster strong working relationships with hiring managers, candidates, universities and third-party agencies
• Attentively processing recruitment requests and advertising roles on admirajobs.co.uk and other digital channels such as LinkedIn
• Build on the strategy of using our in-house recruiter methods, such as LinkedIn, to source suitable candidates as opposed to an over-reliance on agencies 
• Screening CV’s to assess candidate suitability and passing them to hiring managers for review
• Organising and scheduling interviews, tests and presentations
• Conducting interviews
• Providing concise and detailed feedback to unsuccessful candidates
• Negotiating and offering contracts to new hires
• Onboarding new hires - making sure we are keeping them engaged and excited for their new career in Admiral
• Whilst your focus will be the support departments, you will also be involved in other recruitment campaigns from time to time (e.g. contact centre, MBA Recruitment)

This is not a full definition of the role but covers the main aspects and drivers for success.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience of recruiting within or for Financial Services, Fintech, Tech, MBA, graduate or analyst landscapes is essential
• Have a strong work ethic, innovative spirit and be team orientated
• You will have multiple job campaigns to facilitate, so you will need to be highly organised and able multitask under pressure
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Highly competent with sourcing tools such as LinkedIn
• Ability to work and communicate with managers of all different levels
• You will be negotiating contracts with sometimes complex remuneration packages; you will need to be confident and have a good head for numbers
• Screening hundreds of CV’s, you will need an excellent eye for detail
• Not afraid to question a process or procedure

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're voted no. 1 in the 2019 Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible

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