Recruitment & Onboarding Senior Specialist (5798)

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As a Senior Specialist in our Recruitment and Onboarding team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering a comprehensive recruitment and onboarding service across the business. Your dedication to the candidate experience will drive you to recruit top talent and add significant value to the organisation.

This is a high-impact role supporting our Private Client Group, requiring immediate onboarding and seamless integration into ongoing recruitment activity. You'll be responsible for managing a broad portfolio of experienced hire roles, including senior legal appointments and Partner-level recruitment. You'll also be comfortable managing multiple, single-hire, niche roles at any one time — balancing priorities while maintaining a high-quality, tailored approach.

Please note, this role is a 9 month fixed term contract.

What you'll be doing:

• Partnering with the business to understand recruitment needs and offer expert advice and guidance.
• Managing end-to-end recruitment for experienced hires and Partner-level roles, particularly within the Private Client/Private Wealth legal market.
• Leading on headhunting and proactive candidate engagement for complex, high-value positions.
• Managing the offer process and collaborating with third parties, particularly agencies, to ensure an outstanding candidate experience.
• Working closely with the wider HR team to onboard new hires and ensure a smooth and positive transition into the business.

We are seeking an individual with significant experience in in-house recruitment, talent acquisition, or agency functions, with a particular emphasis on legal recruitment at all levels. You will have experience of identifying and implementing the most effective strategies to fill roles.

You will have a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders and HR colleagues within a to support succession planning, identify key business areas, and understand how recruitment can strategically benefit each department.

You'll also bring:

• Proven experience managing Partner-level hiring and onboarding.
• A deep understanding of the Private Client/Private Wealth legal market, ideally with a strong network.
• Strategic recruitment capability and confidence working with senior leadership.
• Expertise in headhunting and candidate engagement.
• The ability to work autonomously, with high attention to detail and thoroughness across the recruitment lifecycle.
• Experience in a law firm or legal-focused recruitment agency is essential.
• Familiarity with SAP is beneficial but not essential.

If you are looking for an exciting challenge and believe you have the necessary skills and experience, we would love to hear from you.

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It's made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.