Senior Recruiter - Legal

Job Title: Senior Recruiter - Legal

Location: UK Remote

Working Hours/Shifts: Full Time, 37.5 hours/week

Employment Type: Permanent

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The Role:

You will support client hiring managers with filling their vacancies to target start dates ensuring all quality thresholds and SLA/KPIs are met. You will deliver excellent recruitment services to the client in line with agreed service levels, acting as the custodian of candidate quality and the hiring manager experience.

You will be accountable for the delivery of high quality, engaged candidate shortlists to your hiring managers with accurate and complete information to help them make informed hiring decisions. You will also support a reduction in the use of third-party agencies through direct sourcing, supported by our Sourcing teams, and the use of talent communities. You will make clear recommendations on your shortlisted candidates and speculatively introduce candidates of interest to your key stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities:

What you’ll be doing:

• Create and maintain trusted partner relationships with senior hiring managers/stakeholders
• Independent execution of the end-to-end delivery of recruitment services to them, providing counsel, advising through insight and SME knowledge on the recruitment process and ensuring that timelines are correctly identified and met
• Lead discussion on attraction strategies, working with hiring managers to correctly identify approach based on market and hiring demands
• Make recommendations for best fit and skills profile, coaching hiring managers on what may or may not be achievable
• Collaborate effectively with relevant teams to ensure a smooth client and candidate experience
• Take full ownership to ensure the recruitment service is delivered in line with contractual obligations and client service level agreements
• Lead vacancy consultation discussions to agree the recruitment plans with hiring managers– this includes role requirements, sourcing strategy, DEI requirements, pay range, agreed timeframes, responsibilities of all involved, and the selection process

Skills & Experience:

You’ll need to demonstrate:

Must haves

• Extensive proven Legal recruitment experience gained from the legal sector (direct)
• Experience in managing recruitment processes and working directly with Hiring Managers
• Ability to manage and influence Senior Stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build long-lasting relationships with candidates, clients and colleagues
• Handles challenging conversations with confidence
• Analytical mind, attention to detail and practical and proactive approach

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working within a highly complex or matrixed organisation
• Knowledge of iCIMS or similar applicant tracking systems

Other:

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It’s our world but you can do it your way.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world’s leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email talentacquisition.generalenquiries@weareams.com or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.