Deputy Manager

Summary

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise.  The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution.

Alongside world-class legal careers, Clifford Chance offers excellent opportunities in the support functions that underpin its business operations. By joining us in our business professionals group, you will help us to innovate in the way we deliver our services and enable us to run a successful multinational business that never stands still.  Business professionals are integral to the running of the firm and are critical to its success.

Clifford Chance Business Services provides a wide range of IT Enabled Services to its parent company, Clifford Chance LLP. Having grown steadily over ten years, the company employs more than 500 highly skilled and experienced professionals enabling the organisation to successfully support its client in the following areas:

• Finance
• Information Technology
• Administration and Research
• Legal Support Centre
• Document Production Unit

• Project Management and Continuous Improvement

Human Resources management forms a key part of the firm's infrastructure and it is an important part of the firm's global strategy to attract, motivate and retain the best quality people across the firm and to become a recognised employer of choice in the legal profession.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the firm as aDeputy Manager-Sourcing.

Working with the Global Recruitment team based in London, and HR teams around the network, this role  will be  based in Delhi and will offer a dedicated direct sourcing  and talent pipelining role for the firm, working across the network.

You will be able to have an immediate impact on the candidate pipeline and savings generated by direct recruitment.

Job Purpose

As a member of the global Recruitment team, the Deputy Manager-Sourcing will build an effective, efficient and successful candidate sourcing service for the firm. Working with HR teams around the network, the Deputy Manager-Sourcing is responsible for proactive sourcing against agreed role/vacancy profiles, including developing market intelligence. They will source candidates via social media, networking, LinkedIn, Revael, candidate portals and CV databases. They will be responsible for initial candidate qualification and screening, before providing a longlist or shortlist as directed.

They will work within tight and specified timeframes.

The Deputy Manager-Sourcing will be expected to work flexibility, allowing candidate contact across various time zones, and to make themselves available for briefings with colleagues in overseas offices.

The Deputy Manager-Sourcing will spend at least half of their time on desk based research and candidate sourcing and candidate approach. They will spend a quarter of their time presenting candidate shortlists and working with HR/Recruitment contacts around the network, and the remaining quarter of their time building pipelines for future recruitment and working on recruitment/HR related projects. 

The main clients for the Deputy Manager-Sourcing  are HR/Recruitment teams across the network.

‎From time to time, the Deputy Manager-Sourcing will also act as the candidate contact during the selection process.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities will be split into the following:

Sourcing

Following a methodical process you will be:

·        Responsible for proactive sourcing against agreed role profiles when approached by local HR teams for requisitions that are live

·        Responsible for pipeline identification of profiles for requisitions that are not yet live or confirmed, but where there is a business need for future growth

·        Source matching candidate profiles via social media, Revael, networking, LinkedIn, application tracking system and CV databases and other sources

·        Maintain clear records of  reviewed, approached and qualified profiles within a secure environment, and longlisted, and shortlisted candidates within Taleo

·        Measure effectiveness and success of profiles submitted to local teams, following up on approaches, interviews and offers made

·         Where required, conducting telephone interviews and review of skills and experience as part of the qualification process before submitting a candidate to the HR/Recruitment team

·        Closing the candidates on salary/ rata expectations and ensure all aspects of the qualification process has been covered, including notice period, interviews, holidays etc

·        Ensure that the candidate fully understands the selection process, the next steps and the timeframe for the recruitment

·        Contact and interview prospective candidates and retain audit trail of contact

·         Be comfortable managing and reacting efficiently to fast paced recruitment

·        Where possible, retain contact with candidates placed via direct recruitment

·        Maintaining and refining networks through ongoing candidate relationship management

·         Ensuring that all candidate contact promotes the Clifford Chance as an Employer of choice

·         Building direct talent pools for key volume roles or high volume recruiting teams,  utilising knowledge from the HR/Recruitment contacts, using CRM tools as appropriate

·        Providing regular weekly updates to the Global Recruitment team, and to certain HR/Recruitment contacts throughout the network on the strength of direct talent pools and sourcing progress against specific roles

·        Provide regular reporting on direct recruitment activity

·        Working with the Global Head of Recruitment to develop innovative sourcing techniques

Process

·        Responsible for maintaining the prospective candidate database and the applicant tracking system

·        Responsible for submitting as agreed, either longlist candidates (partially qualified) or shortlist candidates (fully qualified) to the Recruitment/HR contact managing the vacancy

·        Work closely with colleagues in the Recruitment team, to manage high volume of activity, in a timely fashion, using processes effectively

·        Understand your key deliverables and metrics, to ensure that details of the process and outputs can be measured and reported on as necessary

·        Respond to a range of queries and carry out more complex procedures

·        Continually monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the team's processes and suggest/implement improvements

·        Every week check for new requisitions and proactively contact the relevant local office to offer to assist with sourcing

·        Weekly check of jobs rotation on sites such as LinkedIn, Indeed to ensure a fair distribution of job postings

·        Regular check of job postings on social sourcing

People

·        Develop and manage strong relations with internal and external stakeholders

·        Provide HR contacts with professional direction and guidance enabling them to manage recruitment and process of direct sourced candidates

·        Share information, advice and expert knowledge with other team members

·        Engage with potential, passive and active candidates on a daily basis

·        Telephone / video interview candidates and prospective candidates for live roles and for pipeline generation

·        Maintain a strong understanding of the firm's employer brand and key stakeholders

Projects

Work on a number of global recruitment and sourcing projects, relating but not limited to the sourcing of candidates.