Before you meet us, get to know us

RPC is a modern, progressive and commercially-oriented City legal services business. From our offices in the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore we provide advice to both UK and international clients.

What we do

Our practice spans a wide range of industry sectors and is broadly split into two discrete areas: insurance and corporates. Working on both contentious and non-contentious matters, our clients range from large multinationals to growth UK corporate firms and other professional practices, and include many household names.

How we work

We're friendly and approachable, yet we're not afraid to give tough advice and few are more tenacious when it comes to securing the results you need. We ask questions that get straight to the point and listen because we're genuinely interested in our clients and their businesses. We understand how our clients work, the pressures they face, and the ambitions they have. And, of course, we love our work.

Why we're different

We have a confident, accessible and enterprising approach that sets performance, service and value at the top of the agenda. Our goal is to do the usual things unusually well, make the complex simple and help our clients build better, stronger businesses.

Our success is built on the level of service we give to clients - delivering what they want, on time and in an easily accessible manner.

Where we work

We act for a large number of international clients with interests throughout the world. We have offices in both the UK and Asia and, as a founder-member of TerraLex - one of the world's largest legal networks ­­- we have strong links with law firms in over 100 jurisdictions allowing us to offer a seamless service to our clients across the globe.

Background

You will work within the People Team and will be based in the London office, helping the team to provide a proactive and forward-thinking resourcing service to its internal clients.

The role has operational responsibility for lateral recruitment into the Commercial legal practice group. You will work in conjunction with the People Team to deliver the People strategy for the Commercial Group and to meet the Group's resourcing needs. This role reports to the Senior People Manager for MIPTOC but will also work closely with the People Manager for Commercial and Banking Litigation and Corporate.

Key responsibilities

• In conjunction with the People Managers this role will drive the legal lateral hire programme for the Commercial Group.
• Supports the People Managers in assisting the legal teams to define lateral hire priorities and execute the recruitment plan.
• Manages an efficient and effective end-to-end recruitment process for lateral hires, from search to on-boarding, in line with the firm's People strategy and in collaboration with the People Team.
• Prepares job descriptions with legal team leaders/partners and the People Team, agrees the attraction and selection process in line with the Inclusion and Diversity strategy, drafts and places advertisements (as appropriate) and utilises the preferred supplier agencies to their maximum potential as well as undertaking direct sourcing.
• Understands the firm's recruitment brand and ensures all recruitment literature/websites/online material is aligned with the firm's employer brand.
• Ensures the effective use of the firm's website, social media, job boards and other specific media to source diverse candidates.
• Uses the internal job page on the firm's intranet to encourage internal sourcing of candidates where relevant.
• Assists with managing the recruitment preferred supplier list ensuring adherence to SLAs.
• Manages the use of and promotion of CVMail (or such applicant tracking system in existence at a given time) in the firm's recruitment processes.
• Manages recruitment processes in line with GDPR requirements.
• Ensures that candidates are effectively benchmarked against the RPC CareerBuilder framework.
• Regularly reviews the candidate experience and takes action as needed
• Acts as a point of expertise on all recruitment related matters, providing advice and guidance to the relevant People Managers and partners.
• Contributes to salary mapping for the legal teams, understands the London legal markets and can advise the firm on competitive remuneration offerings.

Position requirements

Knowledge and experience

• Proven and extensive knowledge and experience of the London legal recruitment market
• Experience of managing recruitment processes and direct sourcing
• Client management experience
• Ability to manage, consult and influence stakeholders
• Understanding of HR processes (annual salary/bonus/performance review & headcount planning)
• Robust working knowledge of the law affecting recruitment and selection (including knowledge of the inclusion & diversity landscape and GDPR requirements)

Attributes:

• Ability to develop strong relationships within the business at all levels, using inter-personal skills and technical expertise
• Strong influencing skills
• Sound judgement and is able to remain independent and adopt a common-sense approach
• Proactive and self-motivated, yet collaborative in approach
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Committed, determined and robust