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