About the Role
As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will influence how we attract and hire early career talent, deliver high-quality hiring outcomes for our regional offices (Bridgend and Leicester), and ensure the smooth and compliant operation of our contingent workforce. This role combines hands-on recruitment delivery with program ownership, focusing on developing strong stakeholder relationships, creating a market-leading candidate experience, and building a scalable hiring approach. You will play a key role in shaping how we attract and develop future talent.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of Early Careers hiring cycles: attraction planning, advert posting, screening, selection design, offer processes and stakeholder updates.
- Design and run selection activity ensuring fairness, consistency and great candidate experience.
- Partner with internal stakeholders (Hiring Managers, HR, TA, L&D) and external partners (schools/colleges/ and D&I) to build an effective pipeline and a strong employer brand.
- Maintain clear communications with candidates and ensure a positive, professional experience from application through to onboarding.
- Contribute to the Early Careers strategy and lead execution of agreed hiring plans.
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for roles within the Bridgend International Delivery Centre and our Leicester office (excl. Underwriting), shaping job requirements with Hiring Managers, managing shortlisting/screening, coordinating interviews, and advising on selection decisions.
- Build local market insight and talent pipelines for Bridgend and Leicester, using appropriate channels and outreach to support volume and specialist hiring needs.
- Own day-to-day governance and coordination of contingent hiring: requisition intake, supplier engagement, onboarding steps, extensions, end dates and documentation; ensuring clean data and clear controls.
- Support the organisation’s contingent workforce approach, ensuring accurate worker records, approvals, and reporting.
- Partner with HR/Procurement/Finance stakeholders to maintain compliant, cost-aware contingent processes and reduce operational risk.
- Act as a trusted advisor to Hiring Managers; setting expectations, guiding selection best practice, and ensuring a consistent and inclusive hiring process.
- Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements with a focus on improving experience and quality across talent acquisition metrics.
- Maintain accurate ATS, ensure timely updates and MI such as pipelines, conversion rates, time-to-hire/time-to-stage and campaign performance.
- Ensure recruitment activity aligns with internal policies and appropriate data handling standards.
Requirements
- Proven Talent Acquisition experience delivering end-to-end recruitment, including screening, stakeholder management and interview/selection support.
- Proven expertise in direct sourcing and proactive pipeline building.
- Experience supporting or delivering Early Careers hiring (apprenticeships, internships, work experience or similar) and understanding how to create a strong candidate experience.
- Strong organisation and prioritisation: able to manage multiple requisitions/programmes and high volumes at peak times.
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence and advise Hiring Managers using clear rationale and data.
- Demonstrable commitment to delivering an inclusive and high-quality candidate experience.
- Process-driven, detail-focused and comfortable working in regulated / policy-led environments.
- Strong systems capability (ATS + Excel/MI), with a commitment to data accuracy.
- Financial services / insurance / banking recruitment experience.
- Experience supporting contingent workforce management and/or working with a VMS/MSP model.
- Experience designing and running assessment centres/assessment days and structured selection approaches.
- Familiarity with attraction strategies for regional talent markets.
- Interest in continuous improvement and using recruitment data to enhance outcomes.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- End-to-end recruitment
- Screening
- Stakeholder management
- Interview/selection support
- Direct sourcing
- Pipeline building
- Early Careers hiring
- Candidate experience
- Organisation
- Prioritisation
- Communication
- Influencing
- Data analysis
- Process management
- Detail-orientation
- ATS
- Excel
- MI reporting
- Financial services recruitment
- Insurance recruitment
- Banking recruitment
- Contingent workforce management
- VMS/MSP model
- Assessment centre design
- Assessment day design
- Structured selection
- Regional talent market attraction
- Continuous improvement
- Recruitment data analysis
Location
- Bridgend
- Leicester
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Employee benefit package
About the Company
- Tokio Marine HCC are one of the world’s leading Specialty Insurers.
- With deep expertise in our chosen lines of business, our unparalleled track record and a solid balance sheet, TMHCC evaluates and manages risk like no one else in the industry.
- Looking beyond profit, empowering our people and delivering on our commitments are at the core of our customer values, and so is a desire to grow and provide creative and innovative solutions to our clients.
- The Tokio Marine HCC Group of Companies offers a competitive salary and employee benefit package.
- We are a successful, dynamic organisation experiencing rapid growth and are seeking energetic and confident individuals to join our team of professionals.
- Please visit www.tmhcc.com for more information about our companies.
Equal Opportunity
- The Tokio Marine HCC Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer.
