Senior Resourcing Manager (Emerging Talent)

Are you passionate about nurturing and developing emerging talent? Do you excel in leading teams to achieve strategic goals? Are you looking to make a significant impact at a forward-thinking law firm? We're looking for a Senior Resourcing Manager to lead our emerging talent team on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

As the Senior Resourcing Manager for Emerging Talent, you will oversee the activities of the emerging talent team, managing the resourcing business partners who handle the recruitment and programme management for trainees and apprentices. You will be a key member of the resourcing leadership team, leading on significant strategic projects and represent the team at board level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Management: Directly line manage the resourcing business partners in the emerging talent team, oversee their activities, and adopt a coaching style to encourage creativity and excellent client service.
• Collaboration: Support the experienced hire team when required, collaborate with the Bflex team, and lead the resourcing management group in conjunction with the senior resourcing manager (experienced hire).
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop relationships with key stakeholders across the firm, act as an escalation point for complex issues, and represent the wider resourcing team.
• Project Management: Lead significant projects for the emerging talent team, identify areas of improvement, and collaborate with the people team and broader business services departments on firm-wide projects.
• Reporting and Analytics: Support the emerging talent team in data production and analysis, convert data into useful business insight, and present it to senior stakeholders, including the board.
• Budget Management: Oversee the creation of the emerging talent budget, monitor expenditure, and report significant over/underspends.

What We Need From You:

• Experience in managing emerging talent, ideally within a law firm or broader professional services context.
• Proven people management skills, including leading performance reviews and supporting team development.
• Diplomatic and professional approach, with the ability to adapt style to different situations and audiences.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and present at board level.
• Data literacy, with experience converting financial information into resourcing and people-related metrics.
• Experience running large projects involving a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Strategic mindset, with an eye on future trends and opportunities for innovation.
• Effective delivery and reporting on project progress, aligned with the firm's vision and strategy.
• Ability to develop a network of effective and supportive working relationships.
• Commitment to building the firm's internal and external reputation, ensuring service excellence.
• Problem-solving skills, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At', for the fourth  year in a row and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 (previously named ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women'), for the third year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

For any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Jenna Hazel (Senior Resourcing Business Partner) at [email protected] or call on 0117 307 6060.

Please submit applications by Monday 12 May 2025. 

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