Legal Recruiter

Job description

Legal Recruiter/Account Manager

London, Birmingham or Glasgow (3 days per week in the office)

Salary range starting at £60,000 a year

Role overview:
Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS).

The Flexible Services team is expanding and we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced legal recruiter to join our Flexible Services team as an Account Manager to support the work of Pinsent Masons' Energy practice in the UK. The Account Manager will be at the forefront of service delivery to our Energy clients and will provide interim resourcing solutions to our internal legal teams. This is a permanent position.

Daily responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Building a candidate pool and identifying/developing opportunities to promote the Flexible Services offering within the internal Energy team, client portfolio and wider external market.
• Liaising with clients and candidates to match them to assignments.
• Undertaking assignment briefs and debriefs with clients.
• Preparing candidates for their assignments.
• Leading on assignment activity and implementing strategic resourcing plans.
• Preparing fee proposals.
• Overseeing compliance activity for assignments.
• Taking a lead in fulfilment best practice, driving consistency and quality of service.
• Supporting with business development activity and projects including new client solutions, training programmes and technology.

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate overview:

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience of working within or closely with, a legal service provider or an in-house legal team.
• Legal or professional services recruitment experience.
• Business development experience.
• Understanding of the alternative legal services market and/or Energy sector.

What can we offer you?

• Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
• Carers' leave (up to five paid days' leave towards caring responsibilities)
• 25 days' annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
• Contributory pension of up to 5%.
• Private healthcare policy
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

Our in-house recruiter, Bhavika Upton, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Bhavika by emailing [email protected]

#LI-BOBUWe have an exciting opportunity for an experienced legal recruiter to join our Flexible Services team as an Account Manager. Account Managers are at the forefront of our service delivery to clients - those being in house legal teams of all sizes who are utilising Flexible Services.