Recruitment Manager – France/EMEA | Early Careers

Career Legal; Paris; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Legal seeks a Recruitment Manager to lead end-to-end hiring for Fee Earners and Early Careers across Paris and Casablanca. You will partner with Local Practice Heads and the Regional Director to deliver high-volume, high-quality recruitment while ensuring an excellent candidate experience.

You will design Paris-focused recruitment marketing, manage campus events, employer branding, and the intern process, while driving inclusive recruitment and Avature optimization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience running strategic recruitment within a complex, global professional services organization — ideally a law firm.
• Extensive experience delivering Fee Earner and Early Careers recruitment within the French legal market.
• Strong track record in direct sourcing and delivering high-quality, diverse talent.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, with a track record of earning trusted advisor status among senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work at pace, solve problems, and deliver under pressure and tight timelines.
• Strong communication skills across all levels, including senior and executive stakeholders.
• Sound judgement and empathy in sensitive situations.
• Strong team spirit, reliability, flexibility, and commitment.
• Analytical, independent, and proactive working style.
• Friendly, service‑oriented, hands‑on attitude.
• Creative and ambitious, with motivation to contribute ideas and engage in international projects and HR concepts.
• Knowledge of French labour law as it relates to recruitment and contracts.
• Excellent written and spoken French and English.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment for Fee Earners and Interns, from direct sourcing and go-to-market strategy through application management, shortlisting, interviewing, offer management, and pre-onboarding.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Hiring Coordinator, building a high-performance culture.
• Design and deliver the Paris recruitment marketing, attraction, and media strategy, including the graduate attraction plan.
• Manage the Early Careers events programme (university and school career days, job fairs, partnerships).
• Oversee the internship application and selection process, from preselection through offers and onboarding.
• Manage employer branding and digital strategy for the local market, ensuring alignment with the global brand.
• Support interns throughout the employee lifecycle, proactively leading on related HR matters.
• Build strong relationships with practice group leadership; act as a subject matter expert.
• Maintain a consistently strong, diverse, and inclusive talent pipeline of active and passive candidates.
• Partner with practice group leadership and in-market Talent teams to drive recruitment.
• Deliver timely, accurate reporting on recruitment activity, using data to track performance and headcount.
• Drive creative sourcing strategies and ensure inclusive practices throughout the process.
• Uphold the Firm's brand and deliver a world‑class candidate experience at every stage.
• Drive Avature implementation and improvement for Paris and Casablanca.

Skills

Direct sourcing

Stakeholder management

Recruitment marketing

Employer branding

People leadership

Analytical thinking

French & English fluency

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree

Tools

Avature

Job description

Career Legal seeks a Recruitment Manager to lead end-to-end hiring for Fee Earners and Early Careers across Paris and Casablanca. You will partner with Local Practice Heads and the Regional Director to deliver high-volume, high-quality recruitment while ensuring an excellent candidate experience.

You will design Paris-focused recruitment marketing, manage campus events, employer branding, and the intern process, while driving inclusive recruitment and Avature optimization.