Recruitment Manager

Job Description

Our prestigious client is looking for a Recruitment ManagerClient DetailsA leading firm in the professional services sectorDescription

• Responsibility for the graduate recruitment, summer student placements and selection process with a view to ensuring excellent longer term hiring decisions of candidates who will fit in with the Firms culture and values.
• Liaising with universities in respect of recruitment fairs and Firm publicity and recruitment events and devising and delivering on a strategy to market the Firm and improve the Firms profile with students.
• Liaising with student law societies to promote the Firms profile amongst target student populations to ensure maximum number and quality of applications.
• Working alongside the Partners and other business stakeholders as regards the Firms wider recruitment strategy and requirements.
• Maximising the value of our student placement programme including by overseeing student training and learning and development opportunities

• Working with the Firms Finance Director and Partners on market salary and benefit benchmarking and best recruitment processes and practices to best support the Firms competitive market position.
• Responsibility for the Firms sponsorship activities, both of university student societies and also bursaries and scholarships.
• Responsibility for liaison with external secondment providers, ensuring the allocation of placements and ongoing liaison with secondees.
• Being key to establishing and cultivating an inclusive, diverse, collaborative, supportive and high performing workforce and growth culture in all aspects of the Firms recruitment practices.
• Reinforcing our values in every candidate interaction and maintaining our values/culture through recruitment decisions.
• Leading on communications and developing strong, productive relationships with head-hunters, external recruiters as required, external training organisations and universities.
• Responsibility for compliance with Law Society guidelines for trainee appraisals
• Liaising with trainees on their development and welfare during their traineeship with the Firm.
• Ensuring legal compliance and compliance with documented internal controls, maintaining documented processes, verifying the appropriateness of identified risks and relevant controls to mitigate said risks including managing effective on-boarding practices.

Profile

• High calibre professional with broad practical experience covering all areas of the recruitment function.
• Experience in professional services sector recruitment
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence at all levels within the organisation.
• Proven ability to effectively lead teams and ability to constructively challenge and influence others.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and significant experience of systems, controls and processes.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Commercially aware with proven analytical skills to ensure value add to the organisation.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments whilst ensuring on time delivery.
• Ability to focus effort and prioritise work to deliver business value.

Job Offer

• Bonus: Participation in the firm-wide discretionary bonus scheme
• Pension: Participation in the firms personal pension scheme - the firm contributes 5% of salary (and contribution rates increase with length of service)
• Insurances: Life Assurance and Group earnings replacement, as well as opportunity to join the Private Medical Insurance scheme
• Holidays: 25 working days plus 8 statutory holidays
• Flexible working: Our firm values work-life balance and flexibility - hybrid working (with regular onsite time in office as required) is optional for this role.
• Parental: Enhanced pay during maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Other benefits: Cycle to Work scheme