Lead Recruitment Partner (London)

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.

About the Role: As a Lead Recruitment Partner here, you’ll build robust relationships with clients and vendors while also supporting our internal team as a subject matter expert. We’ll look to you to build end-to-end recruitment cycles for every role, across permanent recruitment and to support internal mobility too. This is a great opportunity for someone who’s hungry to make their mark and embark into a leadership role, offering you the opportunity to leave your mark on the company. You’ll help us redefine the way recruitment works.

What You’ll Do:

• Strategic Leadership

• Accountable for all Hiring Manager engagement across the business and act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Permanent, FTC and Contingent hiring requirements.
• Increase direct hiring to 80% by the end of year 1 and 90% from the end of year 2 onwards.
• Responsible for delivering diverse shortlists and confirming diverse interview panels with the business to help drive the client’s aspirational goals.
• Drive workforce planning and forecasting, helping the business to translate their objectives into considered resourcing plans.
• Advising on recruitment strategy and innovative sourcing techniques for all permanent roles within their business area, working closely with the relevant direct recruitment team members.
• Present business area briefings to key members of the Robert Walters account team to share knowledge and ensure business requirements are communicated effectively.
• Working closely with direct recruitment partners to ensure that upcoming requirements can be met within budget and timeframes.
• Build a personal network of talent through headhunting, LinkedIn engagement, targeted advertising etc to proactively introduce high calibre candidates to the business.
• Delivering market and competitor intelligence through a formal communication strategy, advising on market trends and key senior talent movement and initiatives in equivalent business areas in competitors.
• Building and executing an annual continuous improvement & value add roadmap bespoke to the business, which identifies their core priorities, key challenges and initiatives that address these.
• Leading on the collation and presentation of Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Business Reviews.
• Identifying opportunities for Strategic growth and expansion of services for the Robert Walters group.
• Designing and leading recruitment projects for the business.

• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to the business and the first point of contact for all Talent Acquisition needs.
• Lead monthly in person meetings with key stakeholders in each business area to review workforce planning, external talent maps, market intelligence and continuous improvement roadmaps.
• Conduct face to face intake meetings with line managers to discuss new opportunities, use RW Insights and market intelligence to advise upon resourcing strategies.
• Confirm requirements, expectations and reverse critical path in writing post intake meeting.
• Create jobs descriptions that are fully in line with legislative requirements.
• Implement interview scorecards and ensure these are returned and saved after every interview.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships both with hiring managers and the HR community.
• Provide credible and consultative advice throughout the entire recruitment lifecycle.
• Maintain the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) & Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
• Support the sharing of information between line managers, direct recruitment teams and vendors.

• Manage and deliver a proactive recruitment service.
• Provide a true partnership by thinking strategically and going above and beyond to get things done.
• Prioritise direct sourcing to ensure SLA’s are achieved, however where needed engage your supply chain and brief them on requirements and processes.
• Oversee internal and external advertising.
• Review shortlisted candidates to ensure they are of the right calibre before submission to the Hiring Manager.
• Conduct HR interview with candidate to assess competencies, skills and experience pre offer.
• Manage offers – including providing up-to-date salary and market information (especially based on any recent new hires in the organization).
• Ensure all candidate interview scorecards are returned and all candidates receive interview feedback.
• Work alongside the HR team, keeping them updated regularly about the status of recruitment.
• Full compliance with the recruitment process and achieve 100% data integrity.

• Become an SME on hiring policies, recruitment governance and SLAs. As an SME, facilitate team trainings in all aspect of those policies.
• Ensure compliance with contractual SLA’s, KPI’s and all client policies.
• Manage an exceptions process with the client for any SLA or KPI fails outside of our control.
• Develop and deliver business plans, recruitment strategies and resourcing ideas.
• Implement simple, effective and trackable resourcing, record keeping and administration processes.
• Produce and develop regular and meaningful reports for the client and our senior management team.
• Make sure our invoicing processes are always efficient and effective.

A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience. A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme, private medical insurance, a fantastic training and development programme, volunteer time off, the opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend, and employee wellbeing through various programmes. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.