Recruitment Manager – EMEA

Norton Rose Fulbright

Recruitment Manager responsible for Fee Earning recruitment across the UK and Middle East for a global law firm. Leading proactive talent pipelining and stakeholder management within the recruitment team.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and deliver Fee Earning recruitment activity across the UK and Middle East.
Drive recruitment outcomes through effective planning, market engagement, and disciplined execution.
Build and maintain robust external talent pipelines aligned to current and future hiring requirements.
Develop market maps and targeted talent pools across key practice areas and strategic growth markets.
Take a proactive, hands-on approach to direct sourcing using recruitment technology, LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM capability, internal talent pools, referral channels, and market intelligence.
Champion direct hiring as the default recruitment approach.
Drive effective use of recruitment systems, sourcing platforms, analytics, and recruitment technologies.
Coach and develop Talent Sourcing Advisors through regular training, mentoring, feedback, and practical support.
Build trusted relationships with Partners, business leadership, People & Culture BPs, and key stakeholders.
Act as the primary recruitment contact for senior Fee Earning stakeholders.
Influence stakeholders through data, market insight, and recruitment expertise.
Authorise agency engagement in line with agreed recruitment strategy and governance and challenge unnecessary agency usage.
Ensure recruitment activity aligns with the EMEA COE model and identify opportunities for process improvement.
Use of data to report on recruitment activity, sourcing performance, pipeline health, agency usage, and hiring outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant legal recruitment experience, ideally from Associate to Counsel level
Experience of using an ATS (such as Workday)
Proven success in sourcing candidates using channels such as LinkedIn, other CV databases, and a range of recruiting strategies, including referrals.
Experience managing senior stakeholders at Partner level
Experience recruiting outside of the UK, ideally in the Middle East
Track record of coaching and developing junior colleagues
Experience of using sourcing platforms to identify legal talent (such as Pirical)

Benefits

Comp & perks

flexible working hours
family friendly and inclusive employment policies
access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing

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Hard Skills & Tools

legal recruitmentsourcing candidatescoachingdeveloping talentdata reportingprocess improvementstakeholder managementmarket mappingtalent pipeline developmentdirect sourcing

Soft Skills

relationship buildinginfluencingmentoringplanningexecutioncommunicationmarket engagementfeedbackproactive approachteam development