Senior Manager - BPPS Recruitment in Belfast

The Senior Manager - BPPS Recruitment will manage and execute all Business Professional full-cycle talent acquisition activities across in-market and centers to deliver a first-class recruitment experience for all candidates and Hiring Managers. This role will be supported by a geographically dispersed team of recruitment managers, specialists, and coordinators. The role will ensure consistent hiring standards, service delivery, and alignment with workforce planning goals, with a focus on a direct sourcing strategy to attract and hire qualified talent.

Main responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle business professional recruitment across all offices and centers, ensuring alignment on workforce planning and operational priorities.
• Develop and execute scalable hiring strategies to support multi-function recruitment across diverse geographic markets.
• Standardize recruitment processes to increase efficiencies and candidate/hiring manager experience.
• Train recruitment team on utilizing direct sourcing methodologies, using appropriate talent attraction strategies to deliver lateral talent, reducing dependency on agencies and to reduce overall agency and head-hunter costs.
• Ensure consistent compliance with employment laws, internal policies, and risk management protocols when recruiting across locations/geographies.
• Serve as primary point of contact to workforce planning team on open roles releases, assigning open vacancies to applicable recruiters.
• Work with Recruitment Directors to define and have process documentation for team to track recruitment KPIs that are measurable (e.g. time-to-fill, time-to-hire, offer acceptance rate, candidate source, cost savings etc.) to drive high-quality hiring outcomes.
• Develop and maintain relationships with functional Directors, understanding unique staffing requirements/challenges across different functions of business & professional services.
• Deliver full-cycle hiring execution and direct sourcing for senior level roles (e.g. Manager level and above).
• Champion inclusive hiring practices to develop robust talent pipelines across all offices and centers.
• Provide deep functional knowledge and expertise, acting as a trusted advisor across the function and the business.
• Partner with and ensure effective collaboration and communication with in-market and center functional teams and administrators to drive best-in-class recruitment and functional cohesiveness.
• Through Avature and other AI-powered solutions, identify sourcing tools to engage passive talent; continual review of options to implement AI-driven resume screening, interview scheduling, and skills-matching technology to enhance hiring accuracy and efficiency in partnership with relevant teams.
• Negotiate external agency supplier terms (as needed) and ensure team is maintaining a database of preferred external agencies and supplier terms.
• Develop external branding strategy playbook to promote vacancies, leveraging Think Baker McKenzie campaign and LinkedIn.
• Participate in various recruiter organizations to increase personal networking, knowledge sharing, and promotion of the Firm.
• Drive a continuous improvement mindset to ensure that the Business Professional Recruitment team is keeping pace with the evolving nature of the business and external market best practices.
• Ad-hoc projects and tasks as set by the Directors of Recruitment.

Skills and experience

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Extensive talent acquisition experience across Finance, Operations, Human Resources, IT, Business Development, Marketing, Communications, and other support functions, in a multi-office professional service/law firm environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing, coaching, and developing geographically dispersed recruitment teams.
• Strong international recruitment experience and knowledge of global employment regulations and recruiting compliance considerations.
• Strong track record in direct sourcing methodologies and delivery.
• Expertise in workforce planning, talent analytics, and applicant tracking systems (ideally Avature).
• Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to relate to and gain the confidence of people.
• Able to work at pace, problem solve and deliver solutions against tight timelines.
• Excellent communication skills with both team members, direct reports, and senior and executive stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with minimal direction and proactively takes initiative within a globally dispersed team.
• Able to bring good judgement and empathy to sensitive situations.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in a complex, matrixed environment.

Reports to Regional Recruitment Directors and Center Lead

Travel requirements The role will not require travel.