Resourcing Manager - Partner Recruitment

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Department/Division: Human Resources
Duration: Permanent
Location: Any UK Office
Reports to: Senior Manager - Partner Recruitment
Type of Role: Hybrid

The Team

The Partner Recruitment team is a vital component of Dentons Resourcing function, driving the firm's strategic growth across the UK, Ireland, and Middle East (UKIME) region by attracting and recruiting future leaders. As part of this team, you will help shape the firm's long-term success and culture.

The team's commitment to transparency, innovation, equality, and respect underpins its consultative, business partnering approach, efficient processes, and thought leadership. You will play a critical role in building trusted relationships with senior leadership, internal decision-makers, candidates, and suppliers, helping to achieve Dentons growth objectives.

The team currently consists of one Senior Manager, one Advisor and one Coordinator.

The Role

Based in any UK office and reporting to the Senior Manager, Partner Recruitment, you will be a key team member with responsibility for the end-to-end recruitment of Partners across the region, ensuring we deliver on our growth and succession plans as part of the firm's five-year strategy.

You will work closely with senior leadership, building and maintaining strong relationships while providing high-quality, proactive advice, guidance, and recommendations to support the entire Partner hiring process, including attraction, selection, and process management.

Your focus will be on delivering an exceptional candidate and stakeholder experience, ensuring compliance with the firm's values, best practices, and inclusive and ethical resourcing principles.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead end-to-end recruitment processes, with support from the Senior Manager, across various locations and divisions.
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders on Partner recruitment strategy and market insights.
• Build and maintain relationships including with senior leadership, agencies and candidates.
• Continuously improve the partner recruitment process to ensure efficiency and responsiveness.
• Act as a brand ambassador for Dentons and promote the firm's values and opportunities to potential candidates across UKIME.
• Leverage your understanding of the UKIME legal market to attract high-quality Partner level candidates.
• Manage multiple recruitment campaigns, ensuring alignment with goals, timescales and budgets.

• Guide hiring partners, candidates and agencies through the recruitment process, to ensure exceptional candidate and stakeholder experience.
• Using data driven insights, provide regular updates to key stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Continuously refine and update processes to ensure continuous improvement.
• Proactively use direct sourcing methods when appropriate.
• Ensure that inclusion and diversity (I&D) is at the core of our process in addition to partnering with the I&D team to ensure we deliver on the firm's goals.
• Support divisional leads design, develop and deliver on their strategic hiring plans.
• Support the development of wider team members.

Required experience, skills, and attributes

• Previous experience of partner recruitment, ideally in-house with international exposure.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships, and credibility to guide and influence and across the firm including in HR, Responsible Business, Business Partnering, Finance and others.
• Knowledge of the partnership model and its impact on the recruitment process.
• Knowledge of the UKIME legal market, including trends and recent developments.
• Experience of interviewing partners, as well as analysing and supporting the creation of lateral partner business plans (helpful but not essential).
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to adapt communication style to different audiences.
• Proactive, pragmatic, collaborative and responsive with a high level of attention to detail.
• Experience of direct sourcing.
• Good agency connections and relationships.
• Experience of project and process management, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver against tight deadlines.
• Good IT skills including Outlook, Sharepoint, Excel, and Teams, LinkedIn and Pirical.
• Ability to organise priorities, work at pace, and meet deadlines.

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our people can thrive, regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as being the right thing to do, it makes good business sense too. A richness of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and the communities in which we operate. You can find out more about inclusion and diversity at Dentons here: Inclusion and Diversity.

Equal Opportunities

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, neurodiversity, disability, or with parental or caring responsibilities. We also offer flexible working hours.

During the application process, all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.

If you have any questions about this or the role criteria, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com.

While it is not a requirement that you inform your current manager of any internal applications, we would recommend that you do so.