Emerging Talent Team Leader

**The opportunity**:
**Are you an experienced leader, passionate about nurturing and encouraging emerging professionals?**Join our mission to make financial advice accessible to everyone.**

As Emerging Talent Team Leader, you'll be responsible for shaping the next generation of our Financial Advisers. You'll guide cohorts of trainees as they embark on their journey towards becoming qualified and competent financial advisers. You'll play a key part in delivering a structured training plan, providing pastoral support, upholding regulatory development frameworks, and driving forward our adviser pipeline strategy - helping us build a **future ready Partnership Services.**

**This is a Swindon based role, however nationwide travel will be required.**

**What we offer**:

- Salary - £40,000
- Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 7.5%
- Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
- Critical illness cover
- Income protection
- Death in service - 4x salary
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
- A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Manage a team of trainees through structured development programmes
- Provide coaching, mentoring and career guidance to ensure high engagement and retention
- Act as the primary point of contact for performance and well being
- Align training activities to professional qualifications
- Liaise with the Openwork Business School to ensure programme quality and attendance
- Monitor and record progress towards competency status
- Ensure all trainees meet our internal regulatory requirements, promoting a culture of risk awareness and compliance
- Conduct file reviews and shadowing sessions to assess readiness for live advice delivery
- Coordinate with business functions to assist with the graduates learning the structure of the company
- Identify future resource gaps and ensure graduates are ready to fill resource gaps across the partnership
- Provide regular reporting on team and indivual progress, exam success rates and competency milestones
- Recommend improvements to the programme based on feedback

**What will you need to succeed?**:

- Experience in a leadership role (Financial Services preferred)
- Proven ability to coach and motivate early career professionals in a regulated environment
- Organised and empathetic to support team members through what maybe their first corporate role
- Keen eye for quality and ability to determine actions on any underperformance, including coaching, formal plans or escalation and determining actions on advice file issues and associated remedial steps
- Continuous improvement mindset to recognise where existing processes need amending for quality or efficiency. The ability to identify and deliver improvements in our customer journey and service delivery
- The ability to manage resource / workflow and multiple tasks and priorities to deadlines, delegating as appropriate
- Strong relationship management and interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective working relationships
- Strong verbal and written communication, influencing & negotiation skills
- Proven ability to lead, implement and drive change initiatives, being an agent for change
- Ability to consistently achieve standards and deadlines without a need for supervision

**Why us?**:
We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities - just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.