Junior Recruitment Business Partner in Birmingham

We are a Top 50 law firm with 13 offices across England and Wales, providing a full-service offering to our clients. Recognised for our growth and excellence in multiple practice areas, we have firmly established ourselves as a "firm to watch" in the legal industry. Our commitment to innovation, client-focused solutions, and professional development sets us apart as a leader in the legal sector.

Due to a maternity leave, we are looking for an experienced Recruitment Business Partner with a specialist focus on the legal sector to join our team and play a pivotal role in attracting, engaging, and securing high-quality talent to cover for a 12 month period.

As our new Recruitment Business Partner, you will work closely with Equity Partners, Heads of Teams, and senior stakeholders to manage and execute challenging searches for legal professionals. You will have an eye for market mapping, an understanding of the legal talent landscape, and the skill to execute our firm’s key messaging and proposition to prospective candidates.

• End-to-End Recruitment: Manage complex legal recruitment processes from market mapping, talent pipelining, and headhunting to offer negotiation and onboarding.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with senior leaders, Equity Partners, and Heads of Teams to understand their hiring needs and provide tailored recruitment strategies.
• Candidate Experience: Ensure a seamless and positive experience for candidates throughout the recruitment journey, including interview processes and offer negotiations.
• Utilise your experience and creativity to headhunt legal professionals from passive markets, ensuring a steady flow of high-quality candidates.
• Offer Negotiation: Work closely with hiring managers and candidates to create attractive, realistic offers while navigating counteroffers and negotiating terms.
• Employer Value Proposition (EVP): Play a key role in driving the development of our EVP messaging and social media campaigns to promote the firm’s culture and attract top legal talent.
• Social Media & Content: Actively contribute to our recruitment marketing strategy, including content creation and engagement on platforms like LinkedIn, and be confident appearing in front of the camera.
• Campaign Management: Deliver headhunting campaigns in challenging markets and industries, with a focus on resilience and creative problem-solving to find and secure the best talent.

You’ll bring a combination of recruitment expertise, legal sector knowledge, and a passion for candidate experience. Whether you have come from an in-house recruitment position or have agency experience, you will thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.

Competitive Salary & Benefits: Attractive base salary with additional bonus scheme.

Career Growth: This is an exciting opportunity to grow as a senior recruiter within a dynamic and innovative team.

Impact: Be a key driver in shaping our recruitment strategy, EVP, and candidate experience.

Work-Life Balance: We understand the importance of balance and offer flexible working arrangements.

• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Bonus scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life Assurance
• 1/3 gym membership contribution

Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed. Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers.

We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.

We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal.