Lead end-to-end experienced hire legal recruitment across Paris, aligned with business and Global Product Group priorities.Partner with hiring managers to define requirements and develop effective recruitment and assessment strategies.Maintain oversight of hiring activity, priorities and risks, ensuring high-quality and timely recruitment outcomes.Ensure adoption of consistent assessment standards and recruitment practices.Ensure an inclusive, engaging and high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.Early Talent Acquisition
Oversee Early Talent recruitment for Paris, including attraction, selection and recruitment of intern and graduate populations.Work closely with a Talent Acquisition Specialist, providing direction and oversight of Early Talent recruitment activity and delivery.Partner with the business to ensure Early Talent activity supports current requirements and future talent needs.Oversee relationships with universities, student organisations and other relevant external partners, alongside careers fairs, events and attraction activity.Ensure consistent assessment standards and a high-quality candidate experience across Early Talent recruitment.Use recruitment and market insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities across future talent pipelines.Employer Branding & Sourcing
Partner with Employer Brand colleagues to leverage global campaigns and recruitment marketing effectively within the Paris market.Develop attraction and sourcing approaches appropriate to local talent audiences, hiring priorities and market conditions.Drive effective use of direct sourcing, market mapping and talent pipelines to support current and future hiring requirements.Build and maintain relationships with prospective candidates and relevant talent communities.Manage the effective and commercially appropriate use of recruitment agencies and search partners.Use candidate and market insight to continuously strengthen attraction and sourcing activity.Operational Excellence & Collaboration
Ensure recruitment activity aligns with the Firm’s Talent Acquisition processes, governance, assessment standards and inclusive hiring principles.Leverage recruitment technology, data and AI-enabled tools to support efficient, high-quality delivery and continuous improvement.Support the adoption of global Talent Acquisition initiatives and ways of working within Paris.Collaborate with Talent Acquisition colleagues internationally, sharing expertise and best practice to promote greater alignment and consistency across locations.Significant Talent Acquisition experience, ideally within a law firm, professional services, financial services or another fast-paced, international, client-focused environment.Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment and delivering high-quality recruitment outcomes.Strong experience partnering with senior stakeholders and providing credible recruitment advice.Robust knowledge of experienced hire recruitment, sourcing and candidate engagement.Experience of Early Talent, campus recruitment or employer branding would be advantageous.Strong stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills.Commercial judgement and the ability to use market insight and recruitment data to make practical recommendations.Excellent organisational, prioritisation and project management capability.A proactive, hands-on approach with the ability to operate autonomously and take ownership.Collaborative and internationally minded, with the adaptability to take on broader responsibilities as business needs evolve.Interest in recruitment technology, innovation and AI-enabled tools.Fluency in French and English is required; additional languages would be advantageous.Additional Information
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