Recruitment Advisor in Manchester

Kennedys is looking for a Recruitment Advisor to join our Partner Recruitment team, based in Chelmsford or Manchester on a hybrid basis. You will work alongside the Senior Manager for Partner Recruitment as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders in respect of partner and senior level recruitment. As part of our Recruitment team, you will play a key strategic role in supporting your stakeholders to achieve their hiring needs. You will have strong legal recruitment experience, ideally gained within a partnership environment, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You will also support on wider HR initiatives and projects, including an ongoing HR transformation project to improve the way we work as a global HR team.

The Kennedys HR team support the firm around the world with all people related matters. The HR team is based in various locations globally across Kennedys' five regions; APAC, EMEA, US, LATAM and UK. The areas of HR that we have responsibility for are Business Partnering, Talent, Recruitment, Responsible Business, Operations, and Reward. You will be working in a fast‑paced, demanding, and global environment as we strive to make a difference for our people, clients and communities where we work.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver a first class, proactive professional recruitment service to attract and recruit high calibre senior talent, in accordance with the Firm Strategy and recruitment budget.
• Assist with the management of the end‑to‑end recruitment process for partner and senior talent vacancies as advised.
• Increase direct attraction of partners and senior talent by completing extensive market research and producing detailed market maps which demonstrate an excellent understanding of the legal market.
• Use data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of our direct recruitment approach and suggest where further improvement is desirable.
• Utilise LinkedIn Recruiter and other direct sourcing platforms and methods and encourage referrals to proactively build talent pipelines.
• Build and manage relationships with recruitment agencies and head‑hunters, negotiate terms of business and run briefings as required.
• Manage and oversee inputting of relevant candidate information into the HR Information System as part of the on‑boarding process.
• Work closely with the recruitment administrator and wider business services team to ensure the new joiners receive a smooth recruitment process and excellent candidate experience.
• Produce and analyse management information as required and as a result make recommendations to the Senior Recruitment Manager, which may include monitoring the monthly recruitment budget spend and annual budget setting and analysis.

Required experience

• Previous legal recruitment experience, in a recruitment agency and / or law firm setting.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with people at all levels throughout the firm, including across geographical boundaries.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to build credibility and relationships quickly.
• Ability to build strong relationships with senior and key stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Be comfortable working to strict deadlines and ensuring delivery in a busy global organisation.
• Strong multi‑tasking and time‑management skills.
• Strong organisational skills with a focus on high‑quality delivery.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field. Our lawyers handle both contentious and non‑contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services for many industry sectors, but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high‑performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference. Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our core values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on‑the‑job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate and empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.