Resourcing Advisor, Regional

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

An exciting role with a global remit, the Resourcing Advisor will drive recruitment excellence in fee earner recruitment delivery. A great combination of autonomous strategic hiring and business partnering where you will become a true extension of the teams that you are supporting. 

This role can be based in either Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh and includes travel to the other UK offices as and when required.

THE TEAM

Our HR Group delivers the firm's global people strategy, with teams across our UK offices (London, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh) and internationally. It comprises Learning and Development, Reward & Benefits, HR Operations, HR Business Partnering, Early Careers and Responsible Business.

This role sits within our Lateral Resourcing team, which attracts and hires talent globally, including qualified lawyers (up to partner level), business services professionals and paralegals. You will work closely with wider HR teams, key stakeholders and partners.

The Lateral Resourcing team is led by the Head of Resourcing, supported by a Senior Manager, two Managers, three Senior Advisors, two Advisors and two Assistants. Alongside day-to-day recruitment, the team drives initiatives to continuously improve the recruitment experience and candidate journey.

WHAT WILL THE ROLE INVOLVE? 

Joining a dynamic and ambitious talent acquisition team, the lateral resourcing function plays a key role in the firm. As Resourcing Advisor, you will manage recruitment for a dedicated fee‑earning division, partnering closely with lawyers and business leaders to build strong working relationships. Alongside day‑to‑day hiring, you will help drive the division's and the firm's strategic priorities and contribute to projects aimed at improving how we deliver to our internal and external clients.

We invite applications from candidates seeking both full-time and part-time opportunities, with hybrid working available. The following (non-exhaustive) list gives an overview of what you can expect in the role:

• Responsibility for fee‑earning legal recruitment, including taking effective briefs from hiring partners and working with hiring managers to design compelling campaigns and role profiles aligned to the AG EVP and employer brand, through to agency briefings and screening calls.
• Shortlisting and screening candidates, providing advice, best practice and market insights to hiring partners, and managing the end‑to‑end recruitment process through to offer: giving timely feedback, advising on salaries and approvals, managing offers through to acceptance, handling candidate queries, ensuring a smooth handover to HR Administration, and capturing/ sharing feedback where offers are declined.
• Taking full ownership of your allocated fee‑earning division by assessing and managing speculative applications, supporting AG2030 growth plans, and continuously tracking and reviewing the candidate pipeline to identify strong matches early and flag them to hiring partners ahead of roles going live.
• Attracting and engaging talent through continuous market research, networking and insight, building strong relationships with local agencies and hiring teams, coaching and advising hiring managers, and focusing on direct sourcing (e.g. talent mapping, job boards, referrals, social media) to optimise candidate experience, cost per hire and inclusion outcomes.
• Acting as a strong business partner, building effective relationships with Divisional Finance, HR and BD, and leading (with support where required) key recruitment projects and initiatives such as ATS implementation and process design, employer branding and EVP, inclusive talent acquisition, PSL reviews, and talent pool/community management.
• Using the recruitment system and reporting tools to monitor recruitment activity, success rates, agency performance/usage and pipeline diversity, maintaining accurate spreadsheets, templates and collateral, and ensuring effective tracking.
• Providing sustained responsiveness, first-rate service and high standards to deliver an excellent internal hiring manager experience and an inclusive, fair and efficient candidate experience, working closely with (and supporting as needed) the Resourcing Assistant on administrative tasks (e.g. arranging interviews, sharing feedback, drafting offer paperwork and contracts).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 

• This role requires an experienced Recruitment Advisor. The experience can have been gained either in house or with an agency.
• Experience of direct resourcing including using tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter.
• A strong understanding and experience working in the legal sector.
• Experience of end-to-end sourcing and attraction methods, candidate pipelining and attraction in-line with firm's strategic ambitions.
• You will have experience following a clear recruitment strategy and process.
• Ability to build strong and credible relationships with candidates and stakeholders at all levels in the business. Capable of delivering advice which is both accurate and commercially sound, ensuring knowledge is kept up to date.
• Committed to growing your network within the wider recruitment profession.
• A passion for learning, seeking new methods of attraction and your curiosity of new hiring tools and tech that comes to market.

OUR FIRM

Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment.  Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.

We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.

Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in. 

Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients.

Are you up for the challenge?