Talent Partner, Octopus Investments
+ Bonus and share incentive plan
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Ethical Investments
Posted today
Ethical Investments
1001+ employees
Posted today
+ Bonus and share incentive plan
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Octopus Group is a B Corp whose mission is to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will help change the world.
Role
Who you are
- You pursue everything with energy, you’re highly driven, decisive and have a strong need to finish
- With resilience in abundance, you can be counted on to exceed goals
- You’re known for seizing opportunities and achieving what you set out to do
- You’re a persuasive communicator and can generate a high level of engagement from others
- You’re both open and credible and can fluidly adapt with the situation
- You’re inquisitive
- You like building a deep knowledge of the businesses you work in and use that understanding to identify opportunities
- You keep up to date with competitor activity and wider market trends to ensure you’re always ahead of the game
- You’re humble and ready to develop
- You won’t have all the answers and are ok with that
- You’re comfortable receiving feedback and are proactive to work on ways to improve your own performance
Desirable
- You get your kicks out of trying new ways of working and testing new recruitment technology to aid how you work
- You have a positive attitude to change and comfortable working with ambiguity
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Talent Partner to work closely with our hiring teams to understand their priorities, help them design and execute successful hiring process and attract a diverse set of candidates
- You’ll be working closely with the People Team and your stakeholders to provide effective recruitment solutions into those business areas
- Stakeholder Partnering: Building trust-based professional relationships which engage and establish credibility with varied stakeholders
- Understanding their needs, identifying current and future requirements
- Presenting a positive and unified attitude, with a natural ability to adapt swiftly and a commitment to getting it right for your stakeholders
- Candidate Attraction: Leading in direct and proactive sourcing; attraction strategy, talent pipelining and pooling; assessment and selection
- Candidate Experience: You’ll act as an employer brand ambassador ensuring all of our candidates benefit from an exceptional experience throughout all stages of their journey whilst driving the overall attraction and engagement strategy
- Commercial Awareness: Using your commercial awareness to build insight and a deep knowledge of the key business levers to deliver effective and proactive end-to-end recruitment solutions and develop strong talent pipelines
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus is a group of companies investing in innovative ideas from various industries. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate, Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.
Across their financial services business, they care as much about the impact their investments have, as they do about the returns that they generate for their investors.
Since its inception, the company has grown significantly and has more than 3 million domestic customers and now actively operates in 6 countries.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
10 people
Jessica Bourdon-Pierre, Portfolio Manager
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Flexible working
"Your job and your life can be organised flexibly. I do school runs and finish early to get family time and catch up in evenings on missed time. "
Company benefits
- Critical Illness Cover & Death In Service
- Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Performance Bonus
- Share Incentive Plan
- Hybrid Working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
- Childcare Vouchers
- Sick pay
- 'Take what you need' Annual leave
- £3000 Bike to Work Scheme
- Employee Discount Portal
- Professional Development & Training
- Monthly 'Drink Up'
- The Greatest Christmas Party Ever
Company values
- Be Helpful: We like people who behave like it’s always day one and who remember that without our customers there is no business.
- Be Straightforward: We like people who have opinions and who express them in a way that’s respectful and easy to understand
- Be Bold: We like people who make decisions quickly and who are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Simon Rogerson
(CEO)Previously worked at Octopus Investments for 20 years, first as Chief Executive and co-founder for 19 years and then as Executive Chairman for 1 year.
Chris Hulatt
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Manager at Mercury Asset Management for 2 years and Non Executive Director at ClearlySo for 4 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Investments
Riean Stewart (Portfolio Talent Associate)
- 50/50 gender split across all senior leadership roles (currently 43% female / 57% male)
- 15% of managerial roles and above will be held by people from an ethnic background (Currently 8%)
- We partner with Black Young Professionals network, Investment 2020, Work180, Women in Finance, 10,000 Black Interns and more to promote D&I at Octopus and in the Investments industry
- We host events aimed at women in the financial services industry and how we can attract & support people in this space
- We host internal D&I events on how to support ethnic backgrounds in the workplace, Neurodiversity and more!
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