Talent Acquisition Manager

Overview

In this senior Talent Acquisition role, you will lead a small TA team and partner with Partners and senior leaders to shape hiring across legal and business services. You’ll build proactive pipelines for hard-to-fill roles, manage end-to-end recruitment, and drive improvements in process, efficiency, and employer brand. You’ll bring market insight to influence strategy and collaborate across the firm to attract top legal talent. This is an opportunity to shape how Talent Acquisition operates at a law firm with a strategic, data-driven approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a TA team of three
• Partner with Partners and senior leaders to understand hiring needs
• Develop proactive pipelines for specialist and hard-to-fill legal roles
• Manage full recruitment lifecycle from briefing to onboarding
• Provide market insight on trends, availability and sourcing
• Develop employer brand and EVP to strengthen attraction in the legal market
• Oversee recruitment agencies and external suppliers for quality and value
• Use MI (time to hire, cost, pipeline) to drive improvements
• Review and improve recruitment processes for efficiency and consistency

Key requirements

• In-house TA experience within the legal sector
• Experience leading or managing a TA team
• Excellent stakeholder management with credibility to influence senior leaders
• Strong knowledge of the legal recruitment market and sourcing channels
• Commercial and data-led approach to recruitment
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and ATS systems
• Proactive talent pipelining approach
• Ability to balance strategic projects with hands-on recruitment delivery

• stakeholder management
• influencing senior leaders
• commercial and data-driven mindset
• LinkedIn Recruiter
• ATS systems
• data analytics / MI for recruitment

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