Recruitment Manager - EMEA

Recruitment Manager - EMEA (UK & Middle East - Fee Earning) is responsible for the operational delivery of Fee Earning recruitment across the UK and Middle East offices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver Fee Earning recruitment activity across the UK and Middle East.
• Drive recruitment outcomes through effective planning, market engagement, and disciplined execution.
• Build and maintain robust external talent pipelines aligned to current and future hiring requirements.
• Develop market maps and targeted talent pools across key practice areas and strategic growth markets.
• Take a proactive, hands on approach to direct sourcing using recruitment technology, LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM capability, internal talent pools, referral channels, and market intelligence.
• Champion direct hiring as the default recruitment approach.
• Drive effective use of recruitment systems, sourcing platforms, analytics, and recruitment technologies.
• Coach and develop Talent Sourcing Advisors through regular training, mentoring, feedback, and practical support.
• Build trusted relationships with Partners, business leadership, People & Culture BPs, and key stakeholders.
• Act as the primary recruitment contact for senior Fee Earning stakeholders.
• Influence stakeholders through data, market insight, and recruitment expertise.
• Authorise agency engagement in line with agreed recruitment strategy and governance and challenge unnecessary agency usage.
• Ensure recruitment activity aligns with the EMEA COE model and identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Use data to report on recruitment activity, sourcing performance, pipeline health, agency usage, and hiring outcomes.

Key Skills and Experience

Essential

• Significant legal recruitment experience, ideally from Associate to Counsel level.
• Experience of using an ATS (such as Workday).
• Proven success in sourcing candidates using channels such as LinkedIn, other CV databases, and a range of recruiting strategies, including referrals.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders at Partner level.

Desirable

• Experience recruiting outside of the UK, ideally in the Middle East.
• Track record of coaching and developing junior colleagues.
• Experience of using sourcing platforms to identify legal talent (such as Pirical).

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams.

We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know.