With over 18 offices nationwide, Taylor Rose is an award-winning top 60 UK law firm with a market-leading legal consultancy programme. We operate a high-growth hybrid model with over 1,000 consultant solicitors, and our ambition is to be the best people-led law firm in the UK — delivering smart modern law through exceptional talent.
Our consultant programme is central to our business strategy, offering self-employed positions under the firm's umbrella to qualified legal professionals, providing better work-life balance and earning potential. Our acquisition team plays a pivotal role in fuelling consultant growth, with a target to increase consultant numbers significantly through quality-driven, values-aligned recruitment.
To work within the consultant programme, sourcing and recruiting self-employed legal talent to join our consultant programme. This role is best suited to a candidate with existing legal recruitment experience, who can bring established knowledge of the legal talent market, candidate networks, and the nuances of recruiting qualified lawyers into consultancy positions.
The recruitment executive will be part of a growing department and will work to increase the acquisition of new consultants, drawing on prior legal recruitment expertise to identify, engage, and secure high-calibre legal candidates, as well as assist on projects within an expanding programme.
This role will involve but is not limited to:
- Dealing with incoming leads and conducting initial calls with candidates
- Identifying and contacting potential candidates to develop a candidate talent pipeline
- Progression, queries, and update calls with candidates
- Record-keeping and completing department data reports
- Following up with post-interview candidates by phone and email
- Initial research on various projects working with senior management
- Assisting senior management with meeting departmental KPIs
- Assisting with consultant marketing and recruitment activities and projects
- Answering queries from candidates, including questions specific to self-employed/consultancy legal careers
- Proactively identifying and contacting potential legal candidates using existing legal recruitment
- networks and sourcing channels
- Providing information to the onboarding consultant team and liaising with them
- Joining the Head of Legal Recruitment in networking and at legal sector events
Qualification and Key Skills:
- 360 Recruitment experience within Legal Sector/Professional Services preferred
- Willingness to learn
- Able to work as part of a team
- Good interpersonal skills supporting Consultants
- Excellent organisation
- Confident and personable on the telephone and in meetings
- Good problem solving and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with the Consultant Services Team and other operational departments across the firm
- Ability to work to deadlines, achieve results and prioritise
- Ability to balance commercial interests with compliance requirements
- Service and client experience centric
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Organised and self-motivated
- Ability to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
