Executive Hiring Partner

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.  

The Executive Hiring Partner is responsible for delivering critical high profile leadership appointments across L&G. Working with senior leaders and HR colleagues to develop and execute the resourcing strategy, you will provide oversight on processes that are outsourced to executive search firm suppliers and deliver searches directly. You will play a central role in project workstreams to proactively define and deliver the broader objectives of the function.

How you'll make a difference:

• Deliver critical high-profile leadership appointments across L&G. 
• Build collaborative relationships with senior leaders and HR colleagues to understand likely areas of growth or challenge from a talent perspective. Acquire a deep understanding of requirements to develop and execute a resourcing strategy, ensuring proactive and efficient delivery of processes. 
• Provide oversight on processes that are outsourced to executive search firm suppliers. Advise on the identification and choice of supplier and negotiation of terms. Ensure a robust interview process is in place and that searches run smoothly, delivering a positive candidate and stakeholder experience.
• Deliver end to end direct searches through prospective candidate identification, approach and engagement. Ensure that the existing networks of senior stakeholders are fully harnessed and, as required, obtain insight on the external talent market.
• Lead project workstreams to help drive and deliver the broader objectives of the function.
• Provide market and competitor insight to validate the case for new business initiatives, build talent pipelines for future hiring and support succession risk planning requirements,
• Demonstrate consideration of diverse talent on all search mandates. Deliver innovative sourcing strategies to proactively build diverse talent intelligence / pipelines to assist with future capability requirements. 
• Ensure that the team consistently delivers the highest level of candidate and stakeholder experience.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have worked within an Executive Search company
• Bring five years plus experience working in-house within an Investment Management company or Financial Services provider
• Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrate a strong capability in delivering DEI initiatives
• Be exceptionally well networked within Investment and Asset Management industries

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