Role: Recruitment Business Partner
Location- Birmingham/ Hybrid
Salary : up to £40,000 DOE
Join Our Team as a Recruitment Business Partner at Fletchers Solicitors!
We are looking for an experienced Recruitment Business Partner to lead end-to-end hiring across key areas of our business. Youll work closely with hiring managers to deliver a seamless candidate experience, proactively source talent (ideally using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter), and contribute to improving our recruitment processes and strategy. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a background in professional services recruitmentideally legalwhos confident, proactive, and passionate about connecting great people with great roles.
If you're ready to make an impact in a growing, people-focused business, wed love to hear from you!
In return Fletchers offers:
- 35 hours working week
- Bonus scheme (subject to targets being met)
- 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
- Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option
- Life Assurance Policy
- Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical and other medical expenses
- Company sick pay
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and IVF schemes
- Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
- Varied calendar of funded company social events (check out Fletchers Group on LinkedIn)
- Monthly voucher awards for winning nominees
- A genuinely supportive and friendly culture
- Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
Main Responsibilities:
- To lead the recruitment and selection process for specifically allocated parts of our business, working with senior management and providing an excellent candidate experience
- Work with recruiting managers to ensure job descriptions are prepared and maintained in line with Fletchers guidance and good practice
- Support and advise hiring managers with designing adverts, reviewing CVs, creating interview questions and providing a positive candidate experience
- Upload vacancies to and manage applications within Fletchers Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Manage online recruitment portals (including job centre, job boards etc)
- Support our relationships with recruitment agencies
- Manage our Careers website, ensuring content is up to date and relevant to the candidates we are looking to attract
- Produce reports on recruitment statistics from internal and external data sources
- Manage and monitor internal tracking documents
- Ensure the interview process runs smoothly and effectively for candidates and recruiting managers
- Communicate with candidates to advise them of progress and outcomes of applications at each stage, including making offers and ensuring they are followed up appropriately
- Attend events such as recruitment fairs and careers events to represent Fletchers as a good employer
- Support other members of the Recruitment team when required
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Deep knowledge and experience of leading professional recruitment processes, gained in a professional services environment and ideally in the legal sector
- Experience of proactively sourcing potential candidates and using excellent networking skills to promote job opportunities (ideally with LinkedIn Recruiter)
- Experience of building networks to support effective resourcing and recruitment, ideally within the legal sector and working directly with lawyers
- Experience of contributing to improvements to processes and practices in a recruitment team
- Demonstrable experience of providing a positive candidate experience in a high-volume recruitment team
- Strong administrative skills, gained in a Recruitment or HR environment
- Excellent people and customer service skills being able to build positive relationships with a diverse range of applicants and people right across the business
- Positive, can-do approach with a proactive attitude to work
- Committed team member who looks to support and develop their colleagues
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word, Excel and Outlook
- Experience of writing and uploading text/advertisements to recruitment websites
- Ability to record and analyse data accurately and present findings
- Ability to work independently and challenge our current practices where necessary
We reserve the right to close this role before the date specified depending on the calibre and volume of candidates.
About Fletchers Group
Fletchers is a fast-growing, dynamic law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law, with outstanding rankings in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Following several strategic acquisitions, weve evolved into the Fletchers Group, with ambitious plans for continued growth and innovation.
We work across England, with offices currently in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bolton, Southport, Newcastle, Reading, Birmingham, Northampton and Cambridge. We believe we offer our colleagues the best hybrid and flexible working practices, balancing working from home with time collaborating and socialising with colleagues in our modern offices.
We aspire to be the best place to work in the legal sector.
Our workplace culture is inclusive, informal, and supportive, with a strong focus on colleague wellbeing and happiness. We are proud to offer some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in the industry because we understand that balance drives performance.
At Fletchers, we also value connection and collaboration. We create exciting opportunities for teams to come together and thrive. Whether youre starting your career or aiming for leadership, youll find a clear path to progress and development here from apprenticeships and professional qualifications to senior roles and Partnership.
We seek out a broad range of challenging, high-quality legal work, enabling our people to build meaningful and progressive careers. And we dont just talk about development we invest in it, with a significant proportion of our colleagues working towards relevant qualifications at any given time.
We reward those who help build our success and live our values. Our benefits package is designed to grow with you, offering real opportunities to share in our long-term strength. Our base pay and bonus structure is built to recognise and reward high performance.
Join us and be part of a law firm thats not only growing, but redefining what it means to work in legal services.
Fletchers Group is an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce: we welcome applications from any and all backgrounds. Were committed to providing a culture and environment where everyone can thrive, understanding and celebrating that no colleague is the same. Were proud of our work on the Disability Confident scheme, and we are signing up to other diversity standards to reflect our ethos.
