Recruitment Manager

Role

Help shape recruitment at a leading global law firm. We are looking for an experienced Recruitment Manager to join our UK & Europe Recruitment team. This is a high-impact role combining hands on recruitment, strategic stakeholder partnership, team development, and continuous improvement. You will lead fee earner recruitment across the UK, while also supporting recruitment across our European offices. You will advise senior stakeholders, mentor junior colleagues, and help ensure an inclusive, efficient, and commercially focused recruitment service.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring partners to design tailored, inclusive resourcing solutions aligned with business needs.
• Deliver end-to-end recruitment for fee earners in the UK and for business services professionals across Europe.
• Guide hiring teams on requisition approval, job descriptions, salary benchmarking, interview questions, and assessments.
• Conduct and facilitate interviews that follow fair selection principles and best practice.
• Manage fixed term recruitment and act as a key contact throughout each contract.
• Build effective relationships with recruitment agencies, oversee preferred suppliers, and maintain high service standards.
• Increase direct hiring through referrals, social media, and other recruitment platforms.
• Provide market insight and salary data to inform recruitment decisions and salary reviews.
• Maintain accurate hiring data in the applicant tracking system and Excel for management reporting.
• Collaborate with Recruitment Managers, HR Operations, and Diversity & Inclusion colleagues to support the firm's strategic priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and lead projects that deliver meaningful change.
• Line manage and develop Recruitment Advisors in London and/or Manchester, including one to ones, resource planning, performance feedback, and coaching.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Substantial in house recruitment experience, ideally gained in the legal or professional services sector.
• Strong end to end recruitment expertise, including interviewing, assessment, and fair selection practice.
• The confidence to advise, coach, challenge, and influence hiring managers and senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing, mentoring, or developing recruitment professionals.
• Commercial judgement, with a focus on service quality, cost management, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong organisation and planning skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and multiple projects.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system, ideally Workday and Excel, supported by strong administrative skills and attention to detail.
• A proactive, collaborative, and client focused approach, with the confidence to take ownership and deliver results.

The Firm

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Our Commitment

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.

Privacy Notice

Please take a moment to read our privacy notice. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it's used for, how it's obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject. If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.

About the Firm

We're a global law firm working with businesses at the heart of global trade and commerce. But we're so much more than that. Our collective drive, our pursuit of excellence and our ambition to do our best for our clients, and each other has fuelled our growth for over 90 years. It's an exciting time to work with us. With challenging cases, impactful client projects, growing teams and new offices, you'll work in a fast paced environment with rewarding outcomes. Collectively, we strive towards our shared goal of consistently delivering exceptional outcomes and bringing the best out in each other. Our early careers programmes differ from any other law firm, because of our rich learning experience coupled with our opportunities to work directly with clients. In return, we ask you to bring your ambition and collaborative mind to support the firm's continued success and growth. With over 65 offices in 26 countries, wherever you're based, you'll be empowered to accelerate your career doing interesting, stimulating work, achieving your potential and delivering exceptional outcomes. With over 5,500 individuals with offices in every time zone, our drive for success is continuous, reaching across the globe. Our people stay with us because we invest in strong relationships and value shared success.