Employer Brand Manager

6 days ago


Stretford, United Kingdom AJ Bell Full time

We're now recruiting an Employer Brand Manager to be responsible for promoting and developing our employer brand presence, to reflect working life at AJ Bell and as per our brand strategy.

Working collaboratively with departments across AJ Bell, you will play a key role in shaping the way AJ Bell is viewed to prospective and existing employees. Incorporated with the employer brand responsibilities this role will oversee the creation and execution of our employee events calendar.

About the role:

Employer brand:

  • Lead the design, development and execution of our employer brand strategy to support our overall employee value proposition (EVP).
  • Generate captivating content across various platforms, including social media, videos, employee blogs etc. both internally and via social channels.
  • Seek opportunities to ensure our employer brand is positioned across different channels.
  • Monitor and analyse employer brand performance across various channels and make recommendations accordingly.
  • Provide reporting to track KPI’s and relevant MI for employer brand performance.
  • Monitor industry trends and competitor activity to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Work in collaboration with the wider HR and Recruitment team to ensure our employer brand supports their activities.
  • In partnership with the Senior HR Manager and Recruitment Manager, mange the day-to day running of our Glassdoor and Indeed accounts.
  • Ensure content generated is within our corporate brand guidelines.

Employee events:

  • Develop, manage and implement our annual events strategy to maximise employee engagement and returns.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders to plan, manage and execute internal events.
  • Delivering all staff events within budget and in a cost-effective way ensuring they are inclusive and accessible to all.
  • Identify suitable venues for staff events. Negotiate and facilitate contracts with venues and vendors to maximise the value across all internal events.
  • With the support of the Internal Events Assistant manage and oversee events on the day, including directing event set-up, ensuring all facilities/equipment are in place and effective, welcoming guests, organising vendors, ensuring events run to schedule and any trouble shooting if required.
  • Identify areas for improvement including process and cost efficiencies to maximise employee engagement with events and employer brand.

About you:

You could be an experienced employer brand manager ready to take on new challenges, or someone eager to step into management for the first time.

  • Strategic marketing experience
  • Event planning skills
  • Reporting and data analysis experience
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Effective time management
  • Attention to detail
  • Communication and media planning
  • Calm under pressure
  • Shows initiative
  • Highly flexible
  • Relationship management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Negotiation and influencing
  • Project management
  • Budget and cost tracking

About us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 528,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £83.7 billion.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,400 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years.

Our perks and benefits

  • Starting salary up to £50,000
  • Starting holiday entitlement of 27 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
  • Holiday buy and sell scheme
  • A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 8%
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Annual free share awards scheme
  • Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
  • Health Cash Plan - provided by Medicash
  • Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
  • Free gym membership, with an on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Bike loan scheme
  • Sick pay+ pledge
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
  • Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
  • Loans for travel season tickets
  • Death in service scheme
  • Paid time off for volunteer work
  • Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
  • Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
  • Parking at Exchange Quay
  • Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
  • Ongoing technical training
  • Professional qualification support
  • Talent management programmes
  • Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
  • Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
  • Casual dress code
  • Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

Hybrid working

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.


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