Recruitment Manager, Digital Legal Delivery

3 weeks ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Herbert Smith Freehills Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION

About Herbert Smith Freehills

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.


The Opportunity

Key Internal Relationships:

Digital Legal Delivery Partners, Senior Leadership Team (West), HR Team (West), Head of Recruitment (West), HR Director, Workforce Planning, Strategy & Implementation, L&D team, Reward team, Recruitment teams in the West region.

Key External Relationships:

Candidates, employer branding agency, diversity agencies, other external parties.


Role and Primary Responsibilities: 

Be accountable for the fee earning and business support recruitment processes through the entire lifecycle, including permanent, interim hires, graduates/trainees and apprentices. Support the Recruitment Adviser on advising hiring managers on appropriate selection techniques.  Lead the continuous development and improvement of recruitment practices and processes and provide innovative solutions to resourcing challenges.  Ensure strong diversity and inclusion practices throughout the recruitment process, supporting and encouraging managers when needed, whilst complying with all relevant employment or other law, including data protection compliance and GDPR. Manage the Digital Legal Delivery UK, US & EMEA recruitment budget, tracking return on investment from recruitment initiatives and activities. Participate in career events and job fairs.  Keep abreast of recruitment legalisation and case law, ensuring that recruitment activity meets statutory requirements and adheres to best practice.  Seek to recruit the best available talent in the market, including attracting 'passive' candidates through channels other than traditional recruitment agencies and through constant improvement of our approach to selection. Supporting the Recruitment Adviser in driving direct sourcing to achieve savings targets, reviewed annually.  Ensure that we are maximising the return on our investment in LinkedIn and other direct channels. Ensure appropriate use of recruitment technology, enabling production of timely metrics, etc. Support projects related to process improvement as required.

General Management

Manage the Digital Legal Delivery Recruitment team (Recruitment Adviser and a Recruitment Assistant) and ensure work is managed in the most efficient way, providing development opportunities for the team. Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, including Partners; hiring managers; business services teams; and the HR, L&D and Reward teams.  Maintain clear, effective lines of communication, keeping all stakeholders informed on initiatives, developments, business issues and other critical topics.  Build Digital Legal Delivery's professional network through relationships with universities; recruitment agencies; education organisations; and other partners.  Work with HR and practice areas to implement induction programmes for new starters.  Contribute to the development of our employer brand. Support project work related to recruitment and resourcing.  Note that limited travel, to other offices, may be required from time to time.  The responsibilities outlined above cannot totally encompass or define all tasks that may be required of the post-holder. The outline of responsibilities given above may, therefore, vary from time to time without materially changing either the character or level of responsibility or grade.

Qualifications, skills and experience

Essential

Excellent academics and a keen intellect.  A proven track record of successfully leading a recruitment/resourcing function in a fast paced professional services environment. A proven ability to work both strategically and operationally, adapting to meet the needs of the business.  Proven experience of creating bespoke recruitment campaigns and implementing an employer brand which reflects the organisation's vision and culture.  Strong project management skills, with an ability to use management information to support resource planning.  Well organised, articulate, numerate and commercial. Able to demonstrate resilience whilst building strong relationships with a demanding client base.  Experience in use of LinkedIn Recruiter preferred. Sound technical knowledge of legislation regarding recruitment and of best-practice graduate and lateral resourcing strategies. Robust negotiation skills, results-orientated. Comfortable with ambiguity. Willingness to travel. 

Team

Human Resources

Working Pattern

Full time

Location

Belfast

Contract type

Fixed Term Contract

Diversity & Inclusion

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.

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