Job Title: Talent Acquisition Manager, North America

Division: Culture & People

Location: Atlanta or Farmington

Reports To: Head of Talent Acquisition

Key Relationships: Talent Acquisition, Business Partners, wider Culture & People and senior hiring stakeholders from across the business

About Us

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities, and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide beautifully designed insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle. Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions, and contingency, covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We employ over 2,000 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.

Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers – 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing. Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious I&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.

Job Summary

As part of the continued evolution of our Talent Acquisition function, we are looking for a Talent Acquisition Manager, leading a team to support North American recruitment.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about talent acquisition, leading direct sourcing orientated teams and focused on finding the very best talent to support organisational growth and success. This role will be the go-to for all North American related Talent Acquisition and part of the global Talent Acquisition team.

You will champion our new talent acquisition approach & strategy, challenge the status quo and take a diverse & inclusive approach to acquiring talent.

The successful candidate will need to understand our organisational skill requirements both now and in the future, building the right internal and external talent pipelines accordingly and is a critical hire to support our organisational growth aspirations.

Working closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition, this is an excellent opportunity to own, develop and lead our recruitment efforts in North America.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute on the North American recruitment required to achieve the Beazley talent acquisition strategy which is aligned to the business and people strategy and 5-year plan.
• Have a direct sourcing orientated approach to mid-senior level recruitment, leading by a example and performing full lifecycle recruiting to support critical hiring within the organisation
• Create bespoke sourcing strategies to attract high quality, diverse, active and passive candidates by sourcing, maintaining candidate pipelines, pursuing referrals and developing meaningful relationships
• Develop advanced regional recruitment strategies to ensure talent pools are actively created and nurtured in key locations across North America
• Manage workloads across the team to ensure that recruitment campaigns are adequately resourced, managing BAU recruitment campaigns directly as needed to meet demand
• Ensure that Beazley engage and attract a diverse talent pool in North America through:
• Ensure the recruitment team manage and monitor diversity of candidates throughout the recruitment process, from application through to interview stage and beyond;

o Apply inclusive practices and processes, ensuring our approach to hiring and selection is fair, consistent, and not open to bias

o Work with the Inclusion Partner to develop and maintain relationships with external partners and networks to achieve these goals

• Be the key point of contact for stakeholders in your location, working with the business partner teams to ensure you understand their teams resourcing plans, as well as local presence needs, and support them in managing their headcount as appropriate
• Work with stakeholders globally to ensure there is a greater understanding about talent across the business and building the internal talent marketplace
• Work with your EMEA counterpart, managing the preferred supplier list, ensuring North America specific needs are accounted for and agency partnerships are cost effective and fit for purpose in location
• Work with the Head of Talent Acquisition to with a focus on developing our employer brand and other key projects within North America to support Beazley’s recruitment goals and target the right talent in the market
• Work with the Early Careers function to source and assess talent in this space, including the development of our brand and targeting recruitment events where needed
• Work with the rest of the team to design a best-in-class candidate experience that is effective at identifying individuals with the ability to succeed in our business. Ensure that the candidate experience is at the forefront when taking decisions.
• Working with the broader Talent Acquisition team, ensure that the recruitment budget is managed and monitored appropriately. This should include budget setting, managing accruals within your team as well as ensuring the most cost-effective recruitment practices are being used to achieve budget.

Team Leadership and Management:

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the North American Recruitment team, reviewing and assessing the resources and skills needed for the team to be successful
• Drive a culture of curiosity; championing our new TA strategy with a desire to do things differently, better, and more efficiently; a passion for data and how it can drive business decisions.
• Promote teamwork across Culture and People and centralised support teams, and open, honest, and constructive communication.
• Ensure, through recruitment, retention, development, and performance management that all team members have the knowledge and the skills necessary to perform effectively in their given roles and responsibilities.
• Ensure team act within the Beazley cultural framework of being professional and acting with integrity, efficiency, and dynamism.

Skills & Experience

• Significant level of experience in leading teams and recruiting mid-senior level appointments, ideally in-house or RPO
• Experience working within the Insurance industry or Financial Services (highly desirable)
• Demonstrable management experience with team members in different locations
• Proven and demonstrable direct sourcing skills using variety of web-based tools and search strings, especially LinkedIn
• Excellent communication skills with a natural ability to build rapport quickly and establish credibility with team members, wider C&P and senior stakeholders
• Experience working across multiple geographies in North America and building/managing sustainable relationships with TA/BP teams, executives, senior managers, and other stakeholders
• A high degree of customer focus putting both candidate and manager experience at the forefront
• Proven experience in assessing, qualifying, interviewing, and screening potential candidates for both technical and non-technical roles
• Proven ability to take initiative, adapt quickly to changing priorities, and build strong, productive relationships
• Continuous improvement mindset with experience in leading TA Projects of varying scale and complexity

The Rewards

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related annual bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days annual PTO (full-time, prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), plus paid public holidays with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs. Additional PTO purchase is available up to a maximum of 5 days per calendar year.
• Up to $700 reimbursement towards home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance in support of your wellbeing
• The opportunity to save for, and purchase, shares of Beazley stock
• Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood
• Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service
• Support with exam/study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education
• Up to 2.5 days matched paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice and 5 days paid leave to provide or arrange care for a dependent with a long term care need annually
• Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business
• Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual’s location and experience.


 

The expected compensation range for this position is $100k - $125k per year plus discretionary annual bonus. You will be able to discuss your salary expectations should you be contacted about this role.

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