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Location: Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, London

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team. We are recruiting a Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor to act as a trusted partner to deliver lawyer recruitment across the firm\'s UK and EMEA offices. Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Responsibilities

• Experience in lawyer recruitment, gained in-house within a law firm, professional services or through a legal recruitment agency, ideally including international recruitment exposure.
• Proven track record of direct sourcing, talent pooling and market mapping in the UK legal market.
• Work closely with Partners, senior stakeholders and HRBPs to understand hiring needs and provide expert guidance on recruitment strategy, market trends and competitor analysis.
• Directly source and engage high calibre lawyers, building strong candidate relationships and reducing reliance on agencies.
• Deliver insights on competitor movements, salary benchmarks and diversity demographics, positioning Talent Acquisition as a key business partner.
• Partner with HRBPs to support workforce planning and forecasting, ensuring recruitment strategies align with the firm\'s priorities.
• Manage and leverage agency and search firm relationships, ensuring they represent the firm effectively and in line with our values.
• Ensure an engaging, professional and consistent recruitment experience, managing the offer process before handing over to HR Shared Services.
• Use ATS and recruitment data to track, measure and report on key hiring metrics; contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support wider HR and Talent Acquisition initiatives including employer branding, DE&I recruitment campaigns and process enhancements.

Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.

What happens next

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy, with virtual first stage and in-person second stage at the office where the role would be based. We strive to remain flexible depending on role requirements or candidate needs.

Employer Statement

Our strength lies in our differences. We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Human Resources
• Industries: Legal Services and Law Practice

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