Recruitment Business Partner

About The Role

Recruitment Business Partner

Location : Worcester, Cheltenham, Northampton, or Birmingham (Hybrid Working)

We are a Top 50 law firm with 11 offices across England and Wales, providing a full-service offering to our clients. Recognised for our growth and excellence in multiple practice areas, we have firmly established ourselves as a "firm to watch" in the legal industry. Our commitment to innovation, client-focused solutions, and professional development sets us apart as a leader in the legal sector.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for an experienced Recruitment Business Partner with a specialist focus on the legal sector to join our team and play a pivotal role in attracting, engaging, and securing high-quality talent to support our expanding practice.

The Role :

As our new Recruitment Business Partner , you will work closely with Equity Partners, Heads of Teams, and senior stakeholders to manage and execute challenging searches for legal professionals. Your ability to headhunt from passive markets, build strong relationships, and deliver a first-class candidate experience will be essential to your success. You will have an eye for market mapping, an understanding of the legal talent landscape, and the skill to execute our firm’s key messaging and proposition to prospective candidates.

Key responsibilities include :

• End-to-End Recruitment : Manage complex legal recruitment processes from market mapping, talent pipelining, and headhunting to offer negotiation and onboarding.
• Stakeholder Management : Collaborate with senior leaders, Equity Partners, and Heads of Teams to understand their hiring needs and provide tailored recruitment strategies.
• Candidate Experience : Ensure a seamless and positive experience for candidates throughout the recruitment journey, including interview processes and offer negotiations.
• Market Mapping & Headhunting : Utilise your experience and creativity to headhunt legal professionals from passive markets, ensuring a steady flow of high-quality candidates.
• Offer Negotiation : Work closely with hiring managers and candidates to create attractive, realistic offers while navigating counteroffers and negotiating terms.
• Team Collaboration : As a senior team member, lead briefings, run agency days, and contribute to team development.
• Employer Value Proposition (EVP) : Play a key role in driving the development of our EVP messaging and social media campaigns to promote the firm’s culture and attract top legal talent.
• Social Media & Content : Actively contribute to our recruitment marketing strategy, including content creation and engagement on platforms like LinkedIn, and be confident appearing in front of the camera.
• Campaign Management : Deliver headhunting campaigns in challenging markets and industries, with a focus on resilience and creative problem-solving to find and secure the best talent.

About You

You’ll bring a combination of recruitment expertise, legal sector knowledge, and a passion for candidate experience. Whether you have come from an in-house recruitment position or have agency experience, you will thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment. Your confidence in negotiating offers, managing stakeholders, and delivering successful campaigns will set you apart.

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Why Join Us?

About Us

Benefits of working with us :

Is HCR the smart move for you?

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients. We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.

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