Recruitment Manager - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Baker McKenzie

Description

Role Purpose
***Manage and execute all non-partner (Graduate, Associate/Fee-earner and Business Professional) recruiting activities for the Dubai and Gulf offices (Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Doha, Jeddah & Riyadh), providing high quality recruitment expertise and delivery that is consistent with local country office/s and EMEA+ Recruitment strategy and is aligned to wider Regional and Global Recruitment strategy, ensuring implementation of agreed recruiting objectives.


Main Responsibilities
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Overall responsibilities

• Manage and execute Associate / Feeearner recruitment, Graduate Recruitment (and associated programmes and activity) and Business Professional recruitment, across multiple offices
• Drive creative sourcing methodologies, reducing dependency on agencies and focusing on direct sourcing in support of the direct hiring strategy across all populations
• Lead and/or actively participate in one recruitment workstream and the agreed substreams to develop and implement recruitment objectives, whilst ensuring recruiting professionals are aligned on recruitment execution
• Provide regular MI reporting, metrics and status updates as required to key stakeholders, including Recruitment Leadership Team, working with E2E team
• Network with Firm partners, legal recruiters and other law firm recruitment professionals in an effort to stay abreast of trends and activity in the legal community
• Mentor and develop junior recruitment professionals, as required

Graduate Recruitment

• Ensuring first class Graduate Recruitment programmes, timely hiring decisions and processes supporting the attraction and hiring of high quality, diverse talent, in adherence to local market practices and regulations e.g. the Emiratisation Employment and Work Experience Programmes

Lateral Associate / Fee-earner Recruitment

• Manage and execute recruitment activities, including but not limited to, managing vacancies, developing and managing relations with preferred agencies/search firms and other legal industry organisations to promote the Firm and lateral opportunities; proactively working with regional practice groups and hiring managers to manage recruitment process from sourcing to hire, advising on and implementing best in class recruiting processes, with support from E2E teams; collaborate with Talent Business Partners e.g. on hiring forecasts, talent pipelines and post offer as required

Business Professional Recruitment

• Manage and execute recruitment activities, including but not limited to, managing vacancies, developing and managing relations with preferred agencies/search firms, sourcing, interviewing and assessment for Business Professional positions, as required

Additional Duties

• Annual recruitment budget development for designated offices and monthly compliance of same

Conducting interviews as and when required and possible

• In conjunction with Recruitment Team Leadership, conduct reviews of processes and procedures to ensure recruitment best practice and local / regional compliance, whilst ensuring Baker McKenzie is the employer of choice
• Diversity & Inclusion ("D&I") strategy, working closely with other recruitment, talent and D&I professionals
• Develop and lead / participate in a minimum of one FY recruiting project as it relates to a designated recruitment workstream and substreams; Participate in one FY recruiting project outside their designated workstream; Participate / lead adhoc recruitment projects as and when required
• Provide support, as and when required, to the Recruitment Leadership Team and other offices on key pieces of recruitment activity or projects
• Participate in various recruiter organisations to increase personal networking, knowledge sharing and promotion of the Firm

Travel Requirements
The role will require travel (e.g. between offices, to manage campus events and for recruitment meetings, if and when required)


About The Team
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Function
The Firm's People function has responsibility for recruiting, supporting and developing all of the Firm's people, including our Partners, Lawyers and Professional & Business Services, working closely with the Firm's leadership to design and deliver the Firm's people strategy, building on the firm's core commitments to collaboration, excellence and inclusivity


The function includes:

• Talent Management
• Recruitment & Mobility
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Leadership & Learning
• Careers & Performance & Rewards, and Partner Services

This role will report to the Associate Director of Recruitment, EMEA+

The key relationships of this role will be with the following:

• In-market Talent Management
• Regional Recruitment colleagues & those with a shared workstream
• Relevant Hiring Partners/Hiring Committee Members
• Office Managing Partners & Practice Group Leads

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Technical skills, qualifications and experience

• Significant demonstrable recruiting experience, at Manager level and across all populati