Talent Acquisition Specialist - Future Talent (12 months FTC)

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 Comms 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.

Maternity cover, to lead on candidate and entry level employee engagement. Including the management of Future Talent employees on graduate/apprenticeship programmes as well as the design and execution of post offer strategies required to engage our offered candidates (post assessment centre). This role will also be the lead for attraction events with schools and universities to ensure we attract top diverse talent to our Future Talent opportunities.  

What you will be doing;

Responsible for inputting into and executing the Candidate Experience Post Offer and Employee Engagement strategy, ensuring that new employees feel supported and engaged from the point of offer through to on programme.

Project management of Future Talent cohort internal events, as well as:

• Creating a sense of wellbeing and cohesion across programmes/locations including Lets Connect, My Big Career, Meet the Leader
• Working with third party suppliers on the provision of Quarterly training

Communications Lead including:

• Ensuring business stakeholders and Future Talent cohorts receive up to date and relevant communications
• Responsible for maintenance and improvements of the Future Talent Hub pages
• Internal comms poc to showcase Future Talent work

Development of Legal and General reputation as a Future Talent employer of choice including Social Media strategy, LinkedIn activity, industry award entries and input Index’s (e.g social mobility index)

Active role to support the planning and delivery of the Intern and Graduate/Apprentice/YII Induction

Attraction Lead including:

• Responsible for the development and coordination of university and school leaver attraction events, including Spring Start, University Campus, Bright Network and Young Professionals events and other onsite events.
• Manage Intern Returners cohorts to keep them engaged and leverage their experience
• Ensure events are effective by analysing event data and ROI
• Work closely with D&I partners to ensure events are targeted and relevant to support core skills and D&I objectives.

Creation of alumni events and apprentice ambassadors

Effective monitoring & reporting of performance across the Apprentice and Graduate programmes. Ensuring we are gathering meaningful ROI to support SWP.

Support Assessment Centres where required

• HR or Future Talent related background would be beneficial
• Understanding of apprenticeships and graduate schemes desirable
• Event management/coordination experience
• Stakeholder management experience
• Communication and influencing skills
• Organisational skills
• Problem Solving
• Budget Administration
• Strong IT knowledge
• Management of apprenticeship or graduate programmes would be beneficial
• Financial services experience desirable

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), an annual supplement for private medical insurance, generous pension scheme and life assurance, We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, and then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.