Assessment & Selection Lead

Purpose of your role

• Lead Fidelity International's focus on selection, assessment and process effectiveness
• Develop and execute a strategy that gives candidates, hiring managers and recruiters a first-class experience during the assessment process that represents Fidelity Values and Behaviours and the brand as a whole
• Drive skills builds and capability improvements through appropriate learning and development interventions for hiring managers across the organisation

Key Responsibilities

Assessment & Selection Strategy

• Management and delivery of the strategy to define ideal Fidelity candidate profiling and the tools to assess talent / competencies
• Developing and managing an assessment & selection strategy that ensures a consistent and objective recruitment process across the business
• Identify new technologies to incorporate into the recruiting cycle to ensure the candidate, hiring manager and recruiter experience reflects Fidelity Values and Behaviours
• Act as a consultative thought leader and partner to HR and business stakeholders across multiple geographies, leading requirements development, brainstorming solutions and creating action plans
• Develop ways to track and measure the level of success, including improvements in quality of hire
• Management of working groups and communities of practice focused on transformational assessment

Assessment & Selection Methodology

• Working closely with the Talent and Learning &Development team to embed frameworks across Fidelity assessment & selection processes
• Ongoing validation of Fidelity assessment & selection framework incorporating analysis of assessment performance vs performance in-role
• Ensuring development needs identified during the recruitment process are captured and fed into ongoing development plans
• Embedding methodologies across the global organisation and enabling use of best practice in hiring processes
• Continuous improvement of a levelled competency assessment framework across all business units with supportive assessment solutions that are consistent and fit for purpose
• Introduction of appropriate new assessment approaches (e.g. strengths based)
• Content creation of assessment various assessment tools - interviews, role plays, in-tray exercises, work simulations etc. that would effectively predict in-role performance.
• Evaluate and validate designed materials
• Audited usage and scoring of assessments and training out bespoke assessment content.

Fidelity Capability

• Develop Recruiter and Hiring Manager Interview tools and competency training
• Deliver upskilling initiatives for both the Talent Acquisition team and the wider hiring manager community to enable appropriate recruitment decisions being made
• Partner with business leaders across the organization to ensure Fidelity is delivering a collaborative, engaging, impactful and diverse recruiting experience through expert skills

Candidate Assessment

• Participate in the assessment processes for key Fidelity hires, enhancing the process through deep candidate insights in interview scenarios
• Psychometric profiling and associated candidate insights for key Fidelity hires
• Leading interview panels through data based insights enabling interviewers to focus on key areas and enhance the interview quality

3rd Party Management

• Worked closely with 3rd party suppliers to drive performance and ensure all materials meet business needs and HR requirements.
• Managing 3rd party suppliers to provide cost effective approaches