Legal Recruiter

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced legal recruiter to join our Flexible Services team as an Account Manager. Our Account Managers are at the forefront of our service delivery to clients – those being in house legal teams of all sizes who are utilising our Flexible Services offering across a diverse range of sectors, as well as providing interim resourcing solutions to Practice Groups / Sectors / Teams. This is a permanent position.

Daily responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Supporting client relationships for specific PM Practice Groups / Sectors / Teams and acting as a key point of contact to proactively identify and develop opportunities to promote Flexible Services service offerings within the Group and wider external market.
• Working in close collaboration with Vario Operations to ensure service excellence across the function.
• Taking a lead role in driving fulfilment best practice, driving consistency and quality of service internally which reflects the market leading reputation of Vario Flexible Services.
• Contributing to a high performing team culture by identifying coaching and upskilling opportunities across the team.
• Day-to-Day line management of the Flexible Service Assistants, including allocation of work and monitoring of workload/capacity level to ensure delivery is efficient.
• Ownership of performance management of the Assistants, including conducting probation reviews, appraisals, setting objectives to align to Group strategy and managing under performance.
• Leading on assignment activity and keeping aligned to the strategic resourcing plans implemented by the Account Director.
• Liaising with clients and candidates to match them to assignments.
• Preparing fee proposals.
• Using all internal and external resources and relationships to prepare the candidate thoroughly for the start of their assignment.
• Monitoring the progress of assignments.
• Undertaking assignment debriefs with the client and the candidate.
• Overseeing Compliance activity for assignments.
• Supporting on a number of development projects, which could range from offering a Flexible Services solution in new markets/jurisdictions/new service lines to enhancing our Vario training programme or implementing new selection tools.

Candidate overview:

If you are the right candidate for us, you will hold the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience of working within or closely with a legal service provider or an in-house legal team.
• Legal or professional services recruitment experience.
• Understanding of and interest in the changes in the legal sector.

What can we offer you?

• Agile working i.e. the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments;
• 25 days annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days;
• Contributory pension of up to 5%;
• Private healthcare policy for the successful candidate and immediate family;
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary);
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan;
• Cycle to work scheme.

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

For any queries or for a copy of the full job description, please contact our in-house recruiter, Bhavika Upton. Please note we only accept CVs that are logged on the Recruitment portal.