Resourcing Advisor

Our client is currently recruiting a Resourcing Advisor to work on lateral hire fee-earner (partner and associate) recruitment, both locally and internationally. Reporting to the Resourcing Manager, the Advisor will be involved in delivering the firm’s resourcing strategy and the recruitment of lateral hire fee-earners across two of the firm’s international practice groups.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Managing end to end recruitment cycle for two practice groups, including advising on resource planning, role authorisation and definition, agreeing targeting and selection approach, selection, provision of feedback, offer process, tracking and reporting, and on-boarding.
• Building and maintaining successful relationships with hiring partners and agencies.
• Managing the firm’s PSL for contingent and retained fee-earner recruitment, agreeing standard terms and establishing best practice guidelines, SLAs and monitoring of performance.
• Championing and increasing the extent to which the firm recruits via direct hiring methods.
• Conducting interviews as needed for fee earner roles and supporting the Business Services Resourcing Advisors with interviewing as required.
• Negotiating fees / packages with agencies and publications / online advertising suppliers.
• Working with line managers, partners, Directors and Human Resources Advisors (HRAs) to identify resourcing needs, providing specialist/expert advice on resourcing to the HRAs as and when required, working with others within Human Resources to drive the wider HR agenda.
• Overseeing management information requirements, regularly reporting on key metrics such as time to hire, cost per hire and agency performance.
• Working with the Resourcing Manager, HR Director and other key stakeholders to establish the firm’s employer brand, and ensuring that this is communicated effectively both internally and externally.
• Supporting the Resourcing Manager in the review and roll out of selection processes across the fee earning and partner areas. Ensuring that processes are aligned as far as is possible / appropriate with other areas across the firm.
• Producing / reviewing draft terms and conditions and offer letters for hiring partners to review, with input from the Resourcing Manager as required.
• Working with the hiring partners and HRAs to ensure a seamless induction and on-boarding process is in place for new joiners.

Person specification

• Graduate with 2:1 degree or equivalent.
• Significant recruitment experience, preferably in a law firm or professional services firm.
• Experience of providing HR support and overseeing processes and change.
• CIPD qualification preferable
• Good knowledge of employment law and policy
• Excellent IT skills including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word and willingness to use software packages that are unfamiliar
• Ability to deal with highly confidential and sensitive HR issues.

Please contact Nikki Bjurenvall ASAP to discuss further.