Director

Associate Director or Director - Insurance Practice Lead

Location: London, hybrid

Salary: £60,000 - £150,000 base, dependent on experience

Bonus: Quarterly bonus

OTE: £120,000 - £550,000+

Long-Term Incentive: 7 figure LTIP opportunity

About Valmont Talent

Valmont Talent is an Executive Search and Talent Advisory firm operating exclusively within regulated financial markets.

We partner with founders, executives, investors and regulated institutions across Financial Services, Insurance, FinTech, Digital Assets, Payments, Market Infrastructure, Investment Management and related markets. Our work focuses on critical hires where judgement, market access and execution matter.

Through Valmont Search, Embedded Talent, Talent Advisory and Statement of Work delivery, we support clients through growth, transformation, regulatory build-outs and senior leadership hiring across the UK, Europe, North America and global financial markets.

Valmont Talent is built by operators, not traditional recruiters, with leadership experience scaling international teams, revenue and specialist search businesses. Our Founder has managed over 340 staff globally, has personally developed 32 X £1M PA Billers and built one of the most successful Financial Service Recruitment firms globally without any outside capital.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an ambitious recruitment or executive search professional to help lead and build our Insurance practice.

This is not a pure Talent Acquisition role. We are looking for a commercially minded producer who can manage senior candidates, take talent to market, originate opportunities, build client relationships and deliver retained search work end to end.

Valmont Talent has been retained on multiple mandates across Insurance and Financial Services since their inception, giving this person an immediate platform to transact from day one while building a long-term practice.

Given the strength of our client relationships, you will be required to work from client offices in London 2-3 days per week.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will work closely with the CEO & Founder to build out Valmont Talent’s Insurance Executive Search practice.

Responsibilities will include:

• Delivering retained executive search mandates across Insurance
• Managing the full search lifecycle from client briefing to placement
• Building senior candidate relationships across all verticals within Insurance
• Taking high-quality candidates to market to generate new business
• Developing new client relationships across Insurance and adjacent Financial Services markets
• Building talent maps, market intelligence and leadership pipelines
• Representing Valmont Talent with senior stakeholders and decision-makers
• Helping shape the growth of a specialist practice within a well-capitalised search firm

This is a live, active market opportunity with the platform to bill meaningfully in year one. Along with guidance and coaching from the CEO, the expectation is that the successful person who has the right mindset will have the capability to bill between £600k and £1.2M in their first year, supported by retained mandates, strong client relationships and direct access to senior decision-makers.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for an ambitious, experienced recruitment professional who comes from either:

• A 360 recruitment firm
• An Executive Search firm
• A specialist Insurance, Financial Services or regulated markets recruitment background

You should be confident in business development, candidate-led origination, senior stakeholder management and full-cycle delivery.

The right person will likely have:

• A proven track record in recruitment or executive search
• Experience working with senior candidates and clients
• Strong commercial instincts and the ability to generate new business
• A background in Insurance, Financial Services or another regulated market
• The ambition to build a practice, not simply inherit a desk
• The credibility to operate with senior executives, founders and investors

What’s On Offer

• Access to retained mandates across Insurance and Financial Services
• Immediate revenue opportunity
• Direct mentorship from the CEO & Founder
• Opportunity to build and lead a specialist practice
• Hybrid London-based working
• Potential client-site exposure in London
• 7-figure LTIP opportunity
• 40-50% OTE depending on billing levels

Why Join Valmont Talent?

This is an opportunity to join a well-capitalised, specialist search firm at a key stage of growth.

You will be joining a business with retained client demand, deep market focus and a leadership team that understands how to scale high-performing recruitment and executive search platforms.

If you are an experienced recruitment or search professional who wants to move beyond delivery, build a practice and be rewarded properly for the value you create, this is a rare opportunity to do exactly that.