Description
We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.
You will be accountable for creating, executing, and managing key elements of our early talent strategy, notably our post-offer cultivation strategy.
Responsibilities
- Designing and delivering an industry-leading cultivation strategy. This will include management of the team's pre-boarding technology and embedding a learning curriculum aligned to the firm's global early talent framework of high performance.
- Leading the firm’s graduate Social Mobility strategy, driving conversion from ACCESS as programme co-lead, and overseeing relationships with external partners and the firm’s internal network, RISE.
- Acting as the lead for end of cycle reporting, using data and statistics to track hiring outcomes and identify trends.
- Owning campus relationship management for key strategic universities, delivering high-quality hires and monitoring activity to ensure strong return on investment.
- Managing alumni involvement in Early Talent attraction, including ownership of the bi-monthly internal alumni survey.
- Tracking the competitive landscape in Early Talent content and applying insights to strengthen our competitive advantage.
- Ensuring that we promote our events and programmes in a targeted and compelling way, across appropriate channels, whilst delivering an application pool that reflects the quality and diversity expected by the firm.
Relationships
- Providing day-to-day management of our external agency partners – across all channels – with close management of weekly action points, meeting agendas and budget management.
- Ensuring all activities fully support the wider firm brand proposition.
Operational
- During peak periods of activity in the early talent cycle, playing an active part in the team and assisting with key Early Talent workstreams such as attending and running events, screening applicants, fielding candidate queries, supporting campus activity, and assisting at assessment days.
- Escalating issues as appropriate.
- Monitoring and reporting on financial expenditure relating to your projects and ensure that the spend remains in budget and is in line with relevant policies.
- Management of additional projects as directed by the Head of Early Careers, UK & Middle East Markets and the Early Talent Acquisition Senior Specialist.
- Regularly reporting on progress of projects to the Early Talent Acquisition Senior Specialist.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Prior experience of designing and delivering high-touch Early Talent post-offer cultivation strategies.
- Proven experience in project management and successfully delivering several projects at any one time.
- Ability to demonstrate experience of working with high volumes and at fast pace.
- Strong reporting experience; including analysing and deciphering campaign data and wider insights.
- Experience in determining and optimising return on investment from spend.
- Proven experience in managing external agencies and suppliers.
- Experience in providing solutions to often complex issues.
Beneficial:
- Experience of the full lifecycle of early talent recruitment.
Skills
- Exceptionally organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects effectively and efficiently, ensuring all deadlines are met.
- Analytical mindset with strong commercial acumen.
- Self-starter and a quick learner who uses their initiative and influencing skills to manage up, down and across the organisation.
- Impeccable eye for detail in written work, creative artwork, and campaign collateral.
- Flexible and effective communication skills with proven experience of building and managing relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
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