Recruitment Manager in Cheltenham

The role

Based in our HR Team, this is the sole recruitment specialist role and carries responsibility for our early careers and experienced hire recruitment.

You will be responsible for managing the recruitment process from start to finish and your duties will include:

Experienced hires (lawyers and business service staff)

• working with hiring managers to draft role profiles for vacancies and agreeing the most appropriate candidate sourcing and selection strategies.
• sourcing direct hires through networking, direct approaches, referrals, advertising and other tools as appropriate.
• managing recruitment agency relationships to ensure strong service levels and value for money
• Advising and assisting on selection techniques, being an expert in interviewing skills (and conducting interviews where appropriate) and also engaging with other selection tools including psychometric ability tests
• managing the candidate experience including interview arrangements, feedback etc (with assistance from the HR Team)
• managing the offer process and overseeing onboarding and induction processes (as managed by the HR Team)
• procuring temporary hires as required.

Early careers

In conjunction with the HR Team and others in the firm, managing the recruitment process for trainee solicitors and legal apprentices to include marketing, owning the application process, application screening, design and management of assessment days etc.

Additional responsibilities

• Advising on our employer branding through management of our careers pages, job board and directory entries etc. (with support from / in liaison with the Marketing Team)
• Assisting as required with pay and other benchmarking exercises using market knowledge and sector contacts.
• Advising and/or supporting our initiatives to ensure our recruitment processes are inclusive and non-discriminatory and wholly in-line with our culture and values.

You will be required to travel to our London office (and occasionally elsewhere in the UK ) on a regular basis.

This list is not exhaustive and other duties and projects may be assigned to you.

About you

You will need to have solid in-house recruitment experience gained over at least 3 years (ideally more) covering most of the above duties, particularly in relation to experienced hires.

Law firm experience would be ideal, but experience gained in other professional services or highly knowledge based sectors will be considered.

You will need to be pro-active and flexible, with a confident and positive attitude.

As an experienced recruiter you will know that strong prioritisation skills are needed to balance competing pressures.

Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and strong influencing skills are also essential.

Psychometric qualifications are desirable .

About us

We’re a law firm that specialises in media, technology and intellectual property.

We advise clients on the financing, exploitation and protection of their creative and commercial assets.

Our mission is to help clients to realise the value of their ideas in a digital age.

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Established in 2003, we’ve grown from a handful of lawyers to around 240 people (based mostly in London and Cheltenham) and established ourselves as a leading UK multi-award winning firm with a reputation for innovation.

Our client list includes major Hollywood studios and bluechip companies in the tech, betting and gaming sectors, alongside entrepreneurs aiming to be tomorrow’s household names.

Our culture is unique among law firms – both in what we expect from our people and the way we create value in the industries we serve.

We empower people, expect commitment and excellence, and celebrate when we achieve it.

Our values are at the heart of everything that we do and define Wiggin as a workplace: being visionary, authentic, unified, responsible and excellent across-the-board.

There isn’t a typical Wiggin person.

We aim to build teams that are diverse in thought, perspective and experience to provide a more rounded service to our internal and external clients.

We operate a discretionary hybrid working policy and expect our people to be in the office typically 3 days/week.

Our bright, modern Cheltenham office is close to the centre of town.

All our desks are sit/stand, there is an on-site subsidised café and free parking.

In addition to a competitive salary our generous benefits package includes full medical insurance cover, PHI, 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy another 5 days, birthdays off, a casual dress code and other perks.