Recruitment Advisor – Condor ALS Full Time

Manchester, Lancashire
Fieldfisher

About Condor

Fieldfisher launched its “Condor” Alternative Legal Solutions division in January 2017. Condor offers our clients a customisable range of price-efficient and process-efficient services using an alternative delivery model to the traditional law firm model, partnering with best-in-class service providers. Services include large-scale documentation project delivery, technology-assisted contract preparation and outreach, contract negotiation in cost-effective locations such as Belfast and South Africa, high quality management information and access (where required) to Fieldfisher’s specialist legal, regulatory and documentation expertise.

Condor operates at the cutting edge of legal services and has already won the FT Innovative Lawyers Award 2017 for innovation in new business models. It has also attracted some of the world’s leading banks as clients and is extending its coverage from the financial services sector across the Technology, Corporate and Life Sciences sectors.

Responsibilities

• Managing relationships with external clients, identifying secondment or permanent placement opportunities at those clients. These clients will initially be existing Fieldfisher clients with whom we already have strong relationships
• Managing internal relationships with Fieldfisher partners, and helping them find suitable candidates for client or internal engagements
• Finding and interviewing suitable candidates for these roles, and maintaining a virtual pool of qualified, flexible resources
• Responsible for the end-to-end Contracting process with clients and candidates
• Ensuring the accuracy of all client and contractor bills

Key Skills & Experience

• Experience in legal agency recruitment (preferably interim recruiment)
• Proven experience in sourcing candidates and relationship management
• Ability to work independently, but within a tight-knit team
• Strong interpersonal skills and confidence in dealing with people at all levels in the firm.
• Excellent attention to detail and use of initiative

The Firm

Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market leading practices in many of the world’s most dynamic sectors. We are an exciting, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology, finance & financial services, energy & natural resources, life sciences and media.

Our growing European network of offices supports an international client base alongside our Silicon Valley and China colleagues. We also work in a number of other jurisdictions through dedicated country teams.

Among our clients we count social media sites and high street coffee chains as well as pharmaceutical, life sciences and medical devices companies, energy suppliers, banks and technology leaders. Clients choose to work with us because we deliver commercial, pragmatic and innovative solutions through our exceptional legal expertise and experience, on time and on budget.

Our network has more than 1,550 people working across 25 offices providing highly commercial advice based on an in-depth understanding of our clients’ needs. We operate across our offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Belfast, Birmingham, Bologna, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Luxembourg, Manchester, Munich, Milan,Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Turin, Venice and Silicon Valley.

In June 2019, Fieldfisher was awarded a 5 star ranking for client service by The Legal 500. It was one of only five firms in the top 25 list of UK-headquartered firms to receive 5 stars based on client feedback.

2018 saw Fieldfisher named Law Firm of the year at the Legal Business Awards. In 2017, we were named Law Firm of the Year in Western Germany at the Juve Awards, and Law firm of the Year at the British Legal Awards.

The firm was ranked in the list of top 20 most innovative law firms in Europe in the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards 2018.

Fieldfisher’s Condor Alternative Legal Solutions won the award for ‘New Business and Service Delivery Models’ at the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards 2017. We also won Personal Injury Team of the Year at the Solicitors Journal Awards 2017.

Fieldfisher aims to ensure equality of opportunity and we are actively working towards improving the diversity of our staff. All applications will only be considered on merit and the applicant’s suitability to meet the requirements of the role.