Senior Lateral Partner Recruiting Advisor in London

Are you ready to make your mark as part of our Lateral Partner Recruitment Team in our London Office? Working as part of the Lateral Partner Recruiting Team, with the Lateral Partner Recruitment Assistant, and reporting to the Lateral Partner Recruitment Director EMEA and Asia Pacific in the London office, the role holder has responsibility for providing administrative support to all aspects of the Firm's lateral partner recruiting processes (primarily for candidates in EMEA and APAC with some support to the Americas).

Candidates for this role should have a strong administrative background including highly developed organisational skills. Legal recruitment experience, or at least experience of working directly in a partnership or professional services environment, is preferred. An administrative background, again ideally in a legal environment, could also provide appropriate experience for this role. General IT literacy is an additional important requirement.

The role would be well suited to an individual looking to gain experience of and build a career in lateral partner, or wider legal, recruiting. This is a very busy team with deadlines to meet that requires a calm and approachable attitude as well as the confidence and maturity to deal with people at all levels, both within the Firm and externally (including senior level candidates). It is essential that a professional, helpful and friendly attitude is shown at all times.

Candidates for this role must be able and willing to deal with the considerable administrative workload required as well as demonstrating the necessary initiative and confidence to work under minimal supervision as needed. This is a global role and the successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate some flexibility with regard to working and responsiveness outside of core business hours for this reason. Working some hours on weekday evenings and weekends will be necessary at busy times.

• Support the administration of the lateral partner recruiting process including the coordination of all candidate interviews, preparation and circulation of business case materials, collation of interview feedback and other supporting requirements.
• Drafting documents including business cases, LPQs, EC dossiers, Firm meeting slides etc.
• Liaise with recruitment agencies on new candidate submissions; ensuring CV and other submissions materials are logged, circulated appropriately for consideration, and dealt with in a timely manner.
• Ensure the smooth running of all administrative processes for the wider team.
• Coordinate with front of house and IT staff to ensure all candidate meetings (and video conferences) are properly organised and run efficiently. Attend all scheduled video interviews to ensure relevant partners are present.
• Coordination of complex international travel itineraries for Partner candidates.
• Assist with the onboarding of new Partners.
• Field queries and provide updates to key stakeholders in the absence of the Partner Director.
• Assist with preparation of agency search agreements and subsequent payment of invoices and other expenses management. Ensure terms are in place for all interviewing candidates.

• Undertake other work and projects as required (including outside of the immediate Lateral Partner Recruiting function).

• Professional.
• Diligent.
• Customer and service orientated.
• Positive and proactive.
• Strong sense of integrity.
• Collaborative and enjoys working as part of a wider global team.
• Bright, enthusiastic and willing to learn.
• Discreet and confident.

• Knowledge of legal recruitment market practices desirable (some exposure to partner recruitment ideal).
• Experience of professional services environment, ideally at a law firm.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong drafting skills.
• Outstanding organizational skills and ability to multi-task.
• Strong experience of diary management and scheduling (frequently across multiple time zones).
• Attention to detail and accuracy is paramount.
• Availability and willingness to work overtime as needed.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Team orientated with a willingness to roll up sleeves and help out whenever necessary.
• Ability to work under own initiative as required.
• Preferably educated to undergraduate level.

When you join us, you'll be working directly with partners, business leaders and many other inspiring colleagues across our global network of offices. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you'll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and development opportunities that will help you achieve your potential. We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as an Early Careers Recruitment professional, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

This role is based in our London office, and reports into the Lateral Partner Recruitment Director EMEA and Asia Pacific. Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a requirement for 4 days in the office per week (Monday – Thursday).

White & Case is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm's policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us. We will be happy to work with you.

Note to recruitment agencies: Our internal Recruitment team is responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction. Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the London Recruitment team. When engaging with agencies, we are supported by our preferred suppliers.