Animal Friends Insurance Hiring for IT Talent Acquisition Partner Job at Remote Full Time

Do you enjoy working as part of a small, flexible, and collaborative team? Do you have experience in sourcing and recruiting for IT roles from Developers to Infrastructure Engineers? Do you thrive on working within an innovative, fast-paced and changing environment? If so, you might be interested in our Talent Acquisition Partner role based within our customer focused People team.

Package: Competitive salary with excellent benefits including 22 holiday days (plus your birthday off), healthcare cash plan and pet insurance discount.

Our Amesbury office has recently re-opened so there will be the opportunity to be office based, to continue to work from home or split your time between home and office.

What you`ll get up to as a Talent Acquisition Partner

Reporting into the Talent Acquisition Manager and working alongside 2 Talent Acquisition Advisors, you`ll be:

• Owning the end-to-end recruitment process for IT roles, including writing adverts, telephone interviewing, scheduling interviews and managing the offer process
• Building and maintaining close working relationships with key business stakeholders, including our CIO, Programme Manager and Head of Development; taking an active role in understanding their requirements
• Engaging with prospective candidates to discuss job opportunities, creating strong interview pipelines
• Sourcing the best talent by proactively headhunting using LinkedIn, job boards, social media and more
• Ensuring there is adherence to policy, process, and legislation from all involved within the recruitment process
• Supporting with People strategy projects including employer brand development

What we look for in you

• Proven experience and success within a recruitment or head-hunter position
• Strong experience of sourcing for talent using LinkedIn, job boards and social media
• Experience of building talent pipelines and managing a talent database
• Ability to recruit for all levels of IT including senior management
• Excellent communication skills with a natural ability to engage and influence people
• Confident in working on own initiative with the ability to take a flexible and adaptable approach to your role
• Creative and courageous in putting forward new ideas and exploring new strategies

What Animal Friends is all about!

Animal Friends has grown to become not only an award-winning business but one of the largest pet insurance providers in the UK, looking after over 1 million pets and offering cover for cats, dogs and horses.

A large part of our success is due to our company values which are the foundation of how we work, we are courageous by continually looking for new ways to innovate our customers experience and the pet insurance industry. We are kind-hearted with animal welfare being important to us, we donate and support over 300 charities across the UK and worldwide, to date, we have donated over £5.5 million. And we are passionate about the support we provide to our customers helping them care for their pets.

Benefits of working with Animal Friends

We recognise that your hard work shouldn`t come without its perks, so here`s a little list of some of the things you can expect to get from us:

• 22 days annual leave plus bank holidays and we give you your birthday off
• 95% of our employee’s own pets, we’re able to provide up to 50% off insurance along with free access to our Vet consultation app JOII
• We believe looking after employees’ health is important, so we offer discount on gym membership, access to a Wellbeing hub and a health care cash plan
• We like to celebrate success and recognise excellent employee performance; we will donate £3k to the charity of our employee of the quarter’s choice
• Most importantly, you`ll be working within a courageous, passionate and kind-hearted team

Animal Friends Pet Insurance Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome people of all ages, ethnicities, disabilities, religions and sexual orientations. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

As an FCA regulated business, we require successful applicants to clear our pre-employment screening process which includes a credit check and references checks.

Due to the current climate regarding Covid-19, all our interviews are now taking place as a video interview via Zoom or Teams.