Talent Acquisition Associate

Introduction At Gallagher, we help clients face risk with confidence because we believe that when businesses are protected, they’re free to grow, lead, and innovate. You’ll be backed by our digital ecosystem: a client-centric suite of consulting tools making it easier for you to meet your clients where they want to be met. Advanced data and analytics providing a comprehensive overview of the risk landscape is at your fingertips. Here, you’re not just improving clients' risk profiles, you’re building trust. You’ll find a culture grounded in teamwork, guided by integrity, and fueled by a shared commitment to do the right thing. We value curiosity, celebrate new ideas, and empower you to take ownership of your career while making a meaningful impact for the businesses we serve. If you’re ready to bring your unique perspective to a place where your work truly matters; think of Gallagher. Overview At Gallagher Re, you’ll help connect people with roles where they can grow, contribute, and feel supported. In this 12-month FTC role focused on Early Careers talent, you’ll join a recruitment team that works closely with HR, hiring managers, and global support colleagues to create a clear and respectful hiring experience. Your work will help candidates understand who we are, what the role offers, and how they could build their career with us. This is a role for someone who enjoys engaging those at the beginning of their careers – speaking with people, using data to guide decisions, and keeping recruitment activity well organised. You’ll play a key part in finding and nurturing talent, supporting fair hiring processes, and helping hiring teams make informed decisions. You’ll also help bring The Gallagher Way to life through recruitment. That means acting with care, working as one team, and supporting a hiring process built on inclusion, integrity, and shared growth. This is a hybrid role, with 2 days each week based in one of our Gallagher Re offices in London or Ipswich. How you'll make an impact In this role, you’ll help source, speak with, and guide candidates through the hiring process. You’ll build candidate pipelines, review applications, and make sure candidates have the right information at each stage. You’ll also work closely with HR and hiring managers to support recruitment plans that are clear, fair, and practical. This could include sharing market insight, helping shape sourcing activity, supporting recruitment marketing, and making sure interview plans run smoothly with help from the Talent Acquisition Global Support Team. Good data will be part of your day to day work. You’ll keep our Applicant Tracking System up to date, including candidate details, interview progress, and offer information. You’ll also use recruitment data to help spot what’s working and where we can improve. You’ll support inclusive hiring by helping to promote our Inclusion and Diversity strategy through the recruitment process. You’ll also contribute to recruitment and selection training for hiring managers, helping them create a fair and consistent experience for candidates. About You Here’s what you’ll bring to the role: You’ve worked in recruitment in an agency, RPO, or in-house setting. Ideally, you'll have experience in entry-level and early careers recruitment. You’ve worked in a people focused environment where priorities can change. You know how to search for candidates using different channels, such as job boards, LinkedIn, referrals, or talent pools. You can review candidate profiles against role requirements and explain your reasoning clearly. You can speak with candidates in a way that is clear, accurate, and respectful. You can manage several vacancies or tasks at the same time and keep key details up to date. You understand recruitment best practice and UK employment law basics. You can write clear updates, notes, and candidate summaries. You can use an Applicant Tracking System or a similar recruitment system to record candidate activity. You can use recruitment data, such as source, pipeline, interview, or offer information, to support hiring decisions. You have the right to work in the UK. You can work from a Gallagher Re office 2 days each week in London or Ipswich. Compensation and benefits On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve: Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up Health cash plan or Private medical insurance Other benefits include: Three fully paid volunteering days per year Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan Critical illness cover Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally Season ticket loan Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase Emergency back-up family care And many more… We value inclusion and diversity Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest. Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities. We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know. Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch. Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities. Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.