Talent Acquisition Manager

Description:

Role Overview
This role is responsible for managing the recruitment, wellbeing, development, engagement, retention, and overall support of our Perth secondee team. As a hands-on role, you will work closely with our Perth client solutions team to align secondees with the right client opportunities while ensuring best-practice recruitment and employment processes are upheld.
Key Responsibilities Recruitment & Resourcing

• Talent Acquisition : Attract and recruit high-performing paralegals, lawyers, and consultants (“secondees”) for the Perth secondment business.
• Selection Process : Screen, shortlist, and interview candidates while managing selection and application workflows.
• Due Diligence : Conduct reference checks, background screening, and other necessary compliance checks.
• Job Advertising : Manage job postings on relevant platforms and ensure timely applicant communication.
• Talent Pool Management : Maintain an effective mix of secondees to meet business needs in terms of skills, seniority, availability, and cost.
• Offer Negotiation : Handle the offer process, including salary negotiations.
• Marketing Support : Prepare and update secondee profile documentation for marketing purposes.
• Employer Branding : Collaborate with the Head of People & Development to ensure the client is recognised as an “employer of choice.”
• Data Management : Keep recruitment databases, CRM, and HR systems updated with applicant details and recruitment stages.

People Engagement, Development & Retention

• First Point of Contact : Act as a sounding board for secondees, addressing logistical queries and secondment-related concerns.
• HR Support : Provide secondees with guidance on leave entitlements, remuneration reviews, diversity, performance management, and wellbeing.
• Regular Check-ins : Conduct feedback sessions throughout secondments, including end-of-assignment reviews.
• Career Development : Identify opportunities for secondee growth through new assignments or continued learning initiatives.
• Secondee Care : Maintain regular engagement with secondees both on and off assignment to foster a strong support system.
• Culture & Retention : Work with the People & Development team to implement engagement and retention strategies.

Compliance & Reporting

• Regulatory Compliance : Ensure all secondees have the necessary legal practice status, valid practice certificates, and immigration requirements (where applicable).
• HR & Recruitment Reports : Maintain accurate and up-to-date data in internal HR systems such as Bullhorn.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Deliver on yearly resourcing plans for the Perth secondment team.
• Enhance the clients presence in the Perth legal and compliance market.
• Support initiatives that improve the secondee experience and lifecycle
• Build and maintain strong secondee talent pools to optimise assignment utilisation.
• Develop and maintain meaningful relationships with secondees, the Perth secondment team, legal professionals, and the Australia HQ team.
• Serve as a trusted HR advisor to the Perth secondee team.

Key Relationships

• Perth secondees
• Perth client solutions team
• Australia People & Development team
• Australia HQ team
• Global HQ team

Qualifications & Skills

• Education : Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Law, or Business.
• Experience : Minimum of 6 years in a professional services or legal recruitment environment.
• Skills :
  
  • Self-motivated, positive, and highly organised.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with an empathetic and agile approach.
  • Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and people-focused professional to play a pivotal role in supporting and developing our secondee talent in Perth. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!