Recruitment Business Partner

**Key Information**:

- This role will play a vital role in shaping the operations and recruitment strategy

across Belgium.
- This is a key position within the International Talent Acquisition team and plays an integral part in the embedding of the international talent acquisition offering.

**Responsibilities/Duties**:

- You will be responsible for talent acquisition extending across all career levels including early careers, experienced lawyers and business professionals.
- You will have the confidence and credibility to up skill our Hiring Managers. You will take the lead in ensuring they align hiring decisions to our Values and culture. Your advice will be commercial and pragmatic.
- You will be the face of our recruitment process. As the facilitator of our selection and assessment approach, you will drive consistency and quality throughout our internal and external processes.
- Our firm is international and so is our team. You will be the voice for Belgium whilst driving an internationally consistent approach to talent acquisition across the firm to embed best practice.
- You will input into the international talent acquisition strategy, have an excellent grasp of business drivers and create buy-in at a local level for international talent initiatives.
- Travel to Belgium office for a week, once a month & hybrid working (2/3 days a week in the office) to either the Birmingham or London office.

**About you**:

- You are a strong team player who thinks both internationally and regionally. Previous experience of working internationally in complex, matrix, environments and creating a client focused culture will be invaluable.
- Experience gathered from a range of roles and environments, but you will preferably be skilled and experienced in working for or within Professional, Financial or Legal Services.
- You have a strong understanding of relevant statutory and regulatory requirements and awareness of emerging people trends and its impact on talent availability.
- You are a natural networker who is highly skilled at building relationships with internal stakeholders and third party management.
- As a confident and concise communicator, you are be able to converse fluently with your stakeholders as to their industry, competitor insights, firm positioning and talent opportunities.
- You have well-developed commercial acumen, with the ability to understand the wider impacts of decision making.
- The ability to challenge and influence constructively, combined with high levels of resilience, will be essential.
- You are used to managing a high-volume workload, with a proven ability to operate efficiently and accurately at pace.
- You have a high comfort level for operating with ambiguity, and can demonstrate a flexible and collaborative working style.
- You are a self-starter, with a high level of professionalism and personal accountability.
- You are a pragmatic thinker, with a curiosity and passion for best practice and realistic innovation.
- You have a successful record of implementing recruitment best practice, initiatives and projects; embedding improvements through the standardisation of quality services and processes.
- Dutch speaking