Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Hiring for Resourcing Specialist Job at Bristol, England Full Time

Before you meet us, get to know us
RPC is a modern, progressive and commercially-oriented City legal services business. From our offices in the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore we provide advice to both UK and international clients.
What we do
Our practice spans a wide range of industry sectors and is broadly split into two discrete areas: insurance and corporates. Working on both contentious and non-contentious matters, our clients range from large multinationals to growth UK corporate firms and other professional practices, and include many household names.
Why we’re different
We have a confident, accessible and enterprising approach that sets performance, service and value at the top of the agenda. Our goal is to do the usual things unusually well, make the complex simple and help our clients build better, stronger businesses.
Our success is built on the level of service we give to clients – delivering what they want, on time and in an easily accessible manner.
How we work
We’re friendly and approachable, yet we’re not afraid to give tough advice and few are more tenacious when it comes to securing the results you need. We ask questions that get straight to the point and listen because we’re genuinely interested in our clients and their businesses. We understand how our clients work, the pressures they face, and the ambitions they have. And, of course, we love our work.
Where we work
We act for a large number of international clients with interests throughout the world. We have offices in both the UK and Asia and, as a founder-member of TerraLex – one of the world’s largest legal networks – we have strong links with law firms in over 100 jurisdictions allowing us to offer a seamless service to our clients across the globe.
Background
You will work within the People & Talent Development (P&TD) Team and will be based in the Bristol office, helping the team to provide a proactive and forward thinking resourcing service to its internal clients.
The role has operational responsibility for lateral recruitment into the Insurance and Legal Services departments in London and Bristol. You will work closely with Partners and hiring managers to source the best talent for their teams; you will liaise with the firms preferred supplier list of agencies and direct source where it is appropriate to do so; you will shortlist CV’s and get involved in interviewing candidates and, ultimately, influence hiring decisions positively. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the wider P&TD team on projects and events.
You will work in conjunction with the People & Talent Development Team, reporting to the People Manager, to deliver the People strategy.
Key responsibilities

• Lead the legal lateral hire programme for Insurance and Legal Services, working in partnership with relevant partners and the People Team.
• Working with the legal teams to define lateral hire priorities and execute the recruitment plan
• Managing an efficient and effective end to end recruitment process for lateral hires, from search to on boarding, in line with the firm’s People strategy and in collaboration with the People Team.
• Prepares job descriptions with the People Team, agrees the attraction and selection process in line with the Inclusion and Diversity strategy, drafts and places advertisements (as appropriate) and utilises the preferred supplier agencies to their maximum potential as well as undertaking direct sourcing.
• Understands the firm’s recruitment brand and ensures all recruitment literature/websites/online material is aligned with the firm’s employer brand
• Ensures the effective use of firm’s website, social media, job boards and other specific media to source diverse candidates.
• Uses the internal job page on the firm’s intranet to encourage internal sourcing of candidates where relevant
• Assists with managing the recruitment preferred supplier list ensuring adherence to SLAs.
• Manages the use of and promotion of CVMail (or such applicant tracking system in existence at a given time)
• Manages the recruitment processes in line with GDPR requirements
• Ensuring that candidates are effectively benchmarked against the RPC CareerBuilder framework
• Regularly reviews the candidate experience and takes action as needed
• Acts as a point of expertise on all recruitment related matters, providing advice and guidance to the relevant People Managers and partners.
• Contributes to salary mapping for the legal teams, understands the Bristol legal markets and can advise the firm on competitive remuneration offerings.

Position requirements
K nowledge and experience:

• Proven and extensive knowledge and experience of the legal recruitment market
• Experience of managing recruitment processes and direct sourcing
• Client management experience
• Ability to manage, consult and influence stakeholders
• Understanding of HR processes (annual salary/bonus/performance review & headcount planning)
• Robust working knowledge of the law affecting recruitment and selection (including knowledge of inclusion and diversity landscape)

Attributes:

• Ability to develop strong relationships within the business at all levels, using technical expertise
• Strong influencing skills
• Strong personal judgement, able to remain independent and adapt a common-sense approach
• Proactive and self-motivated yet collaborative in approach
• Strong communication skills both oral and written
• Committed, determined and robust

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Multiple Locations