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Senior Recruiter -    Front Office

About Us

Job Title:

Front Office Recruiter - Morgan Stanley

Location:

London hybrid (3 days a week on-site)

Working Hours/Shifts:

Full Time

Employment Type:

Permanent

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Would you like to support Morgan Stanley with recruiting Experienced Hires?

If you have a passion for doing things better - for both your clients and your career - bring it to AMS and unleash your potential.

Who will I be working with?

You can expect to work with client stakeholders e.g., Hiring Managers, Recruiters (AMS or Client) and Candidates.

Key Accountabilities

What does a "day in the life" of my new team look like?

Client Stakeholder Relationships

  • Create and maintain trusted partner relationships with Senior hiring managers/stakeholders such as the COO teams and BU Risk.
  • Independent execution of the end-to-end delivery of recruitment services to them, providing counsel, advising through insight and SME knowledge on the recruitment process. Ensuring that timelines are correctly identified and met.
  • Lead discussions on attraction strategies, working with Sourcing and hiring managers to correctly identify the best approach based on market and hiring demands.
  • Make recommendations for best fit and skills profile, coaching hiring managers on what may or may not be achievable.

Internal Stakeholder Relationships

  • Monitor candidate funnel metrics in partnership with the Sourcing team to ensure bottlenecks are identified and addressed ahead of time.
  • Collaborate effectively with relevant teams, such as Sourcing, Interview Scheduling and Administration to ensure a smooth client and candidate experience.

Recruitment Delivery

  • Take full ownership to ensure the recruitment service is delivered in line with contractual obligations and client service level agreements.
  • Lead vacancy consultation discussions in partnership with Sourcing, to agree the recruitment plans with hiring managers- this includes role requirements, sourcing strategy, DEI requirements, pay range, agreed timeframes, responsibilities of all involved, and the selection process.
  • Collaborate with Sourcing team on the iterative process of narrowing down high-quality candidate and jointly review the shortlist with the hiring manager.
  • Deliver excellent candidate experience in conjunction with Sourcing, managing candidate satisfaction with the recruitment experience, from initial interview to start date.
  • Support the hiring manager with hiring decisions and guide them in determining an appropriate offer; lead the (often complex) offer process and negotiations to close the candidate.
  • Anticipate potential stakeholder issues within own area of expertise, taking action to address, and using judgement to escalate appropriately.
  • Proactively manage the future demand by facilitating demand planning meetings to discuss forecasts with client resourcing lead team.
  • Build proactive pipelining strategies and share insights with hiring managers to support strategic decision-making and execution outside of live demand. Reporting regularly on the progress of the Talent Pool.
  • Share and implement knowledge gained from other teams to enhance own recruitment delivery.
  • Actively participates in, or co-ordinates projects outside direct remit of responsibility.
  • Outline recommended continuous improvement actions and upselling opportunities to Manager - Client Services, including quantifying impact.

Data Integrity and Governance

  • Ensure that all changes to a candidate's status and requisition updates are tracked in real time in all relevant systems (client and AMS)
  • Support account contractual management by identifying and flagging scope creep.
  • Ensure Data Integrity is always maintained.
  • Identify and track compliance risks in line with the overall AMS Risk Management Framework and suggest solutions.

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate:

Must haves:

  • Experience of end-to-end recruitment delivery within the M&A Investment Banking sector
  • Solid understanding of attraction and candidate sourcing strategies (e.g., web sourcing, networking, advertising, and database searching)
  • Experience of using recruitment technology such as Eightfold and Workday
  • Working in partnership with the sourcing team to market map and identify candidates for headhunting i.e., proactive sourcing.
  • Strong administration and negotiation skills
  • Previous experience managing relationships with sophisticated/senior stakeholders
  • Previous experience handling complex hiring scenarios
  • Previous experience working in a highly bureaucratic environment

Nice to haves:

  • Experience of working within a highly complex or matrixed organisation
  • Experience of formulating complex offers.
  • Experience of working with remote teams.

Other

Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. Together, it means more insight and expertise for our clients and more exciting career paths and experiences for us.

Apart from our benefits package, you'll also get to enjoy the flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that works best for you. We just focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other however you choose.

We offer:

  • Full training and support
  • High value and challenging work
  • A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
  • Flexible working
  • A competitive reward and benefits package*
  • The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

* Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email Talent@weareams.com or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long - term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.

Senior Recruiter -    Front Office

AMS
London, UK
Full-Time

Published on 11/11/2025

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