Executive Hiring Coordinator - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind the scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Affairs – to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives and contributing to the success of the business every day.  

Recruiter: catherine.kilpatrick@lgim.com 

As an integral member of the Executive Hiring team; you will be responsible for providing support and coordination to ensure the smooth running of leadership hiring across L&G.

This will include interview and meeting scheduling, the proactive and accurate monitoring of search processes, and weekly / monthly/ quarterly reporting. You will also provide support on project workstreams to help deliver the broader objectives of the function, while contributing to a positive candidate and customer experience.

It is an exciting time to be joining this growing in-house function, providing exposure to senior leaders, involvement in a wide variety of projects and the opportunity to build experience within Executive Search / Talent Acquisition.

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for providing administrative support and coordination to ensure the smooth running of leadership searches, including interview, assessment, and meeting scheduling.
• Reporting: using our applicant tracking system (Smart) and our available dashboards (in Power BI) to provide weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to our stakeholders.
• Bespoke packs: using templates to create bespoke high-quality packs (for candidates and hiring managers) which enhance our processes. Sending welcome gifts to successful candidates. 
• Invoice management: responsible for processing all invoices for the Strategic Resourcing team.
• You will also provide support on project workstreams in a timely and professional way to help deliver the broader objectives of the function. This could include conducting a web-based research project or supporting with the smooth running of in person & virtual events.

Who we're looking for:

• Experience of working in a Recruitment team or an HR team.
• Previous administrative experience, and project co-ordination.
• Experience of balancing, organising, and working on multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising own work to meet challenging deadlines, with a commitment to quality, detail, and excellent deliverables.
• Experience of working with people at all levels of an organisation, receiving and delivering complex and sensitive information in both verbal and written communications.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Strong attention to detail and excellent organisational / project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build deep and trusted relationships at all levels across the business.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.