Senior Manager, Early Careers Recruitment and Development - EMEA

White & Case LLP; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager for Early Careers Recruitment and Development in EMEA. This pivotal role involves driving recruitment strategy, enhancing candidate experiences, and leading a dynamic team. The firm values innovative thinking and collaboration, offering a supportive environment where your contributions can significantly impact the recruitment landscape. With a focus on professional growth and development, this opportunity promises to be both rewarding and fulfilling for those eager to make a difference in a global setting.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Pension plan with matched employer contribution

Yearly wellbeing fund

Income protection

Holiday purchase

Life insurance

Critical Illness insurance

Private GP services

Travel insurance

Dental coverage

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of recruitment experience in a law firm.
• Outstanding relationship-building skills and ability to lead through influence.

Responsibilities

• Drive Early Careers strategy and align recruitment with business needs.
• Lead and develop the Early Careers team in London.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Relationship-building

Business acumen

Analytical skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Education

Degree level education

Job description

Job Description - Senior Manager, Early Careers Recruitment and Development - EMEA (250000BS)

Senior Manager, Early Careers Recruitment and Development - EMEA

Are you ready to make your mark as part of our Global and EMEA Recruitment teams? If so, you’ve come to the right place. At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you real responsibility, and welcome you as an integral member of our international team from day one.As Senior Manager, Early Careers Recruitment & Development – EMEA, you will play a critical role in aligning Recruitment and the wider People teams across EMEA. You’ll drive the firm’s People strategy across the region, ensuring a consistent and high-quality candidate and employee experience for our Early Careers population across all EMEA offices.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Execution

• Drive and own the Early Careers strategy, applying creative, strategic, and commercial thinking to attract toptalent and align hiring with long-term business needs.
• Work closely with the EMEA Associate Director to develop strategic plans and foster strong partnerships withthe business, ensuring high-quality recruitment and development across the region.
• Lead Early Careers Recruitment, Development and Branding in EMEA, including regular management callsand check-ins with EMEA offices, updates to key stakeholders on progress, numbers, initiatives, policychanges, etc.
• Drive execution by delivering tangible outcomes, both through effective team leadership and by influencingkey stakeholders at both local and regional levels.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Build strong relationships with Partners, lawyers, and business leadership, ensuring clear and consistentcommunication on Early Careers strategy, programme developments, and best practices across EMEA, whileserving as the Firm's subject matter expert in Early Careers Recruitment and Development for the region.
• Ensure effective communication and knowledge sharing across EMEA, establishing clear channels fordisseminating best practices and key updates.
• Proactively identify and drive cross-office and team collaboration opportunities, including joint recruitmentinitiatives, shared training sessions, and regional partnerships to maximise resources and expertise.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor and develop the Early Careers team in London, with potential for expansion across EMEA,fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.

Headcount, Budget & Governance

• Ownership of EMEA Early Careers headcount and governance in collaboration with the Early CareersProgrammes Manager, overseeing coding, reporting, approvals, and liaising with the Regional HR Directorand Operating Council for sign-offs on headcount decisions.
• Monitor and manage the EMEA Early Careers budget, ensuring strategic investment and cost efficiency inprogramme delivery.

Recruitment, Data & Systems

• Develop and utilise recruiting reporting tools, metrics and analytics, recommending organisational andoperational improvements based on data analysis.
• Ensure the effective use of the Firm’s Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) for Early Careers recruitment,optimising system adoption and managing the ATS vendor relationship.

Programme Development & Employer Branding

• Collaborate with the EMEA Early Careers Programmes team to identify strategic opportunities for programmeenhancement (Recruitment & Development) and maximise their project management expertise.
• Support performance management, induction and training initiatives for Early Careers programmes inpartnership with the Early Careers Programmes Manager – EMEA to drive consistency across the region,ensuring collaboration with other People Team resources (e.g., L&D, People Advisory).
• Oversee the management of Forage virtual work experience modules (and other similar candidate attractiontools) across EMEA. Work closely with the Senior Manager for Early Careers Programmes – EMEA to developand deliver new modules and content.
• Develop a structured Early Careers lifecycle across EMEA, ensuring each office has clear, locally relevantresources for new joiners on career development, support structures and key contacts.
• Create strategic plans for EMEA Early Careers marketing and attraction, working with the People EngagementCommunications team and Senior Manager for Early Careers Programmes to enhance employer branding.

Market Trends

• Stay ahead of industry trends and best practices, proactively implementing new methodologies, policies andinnovations in Early Careers recruitment.
• Maintain a global outlook in recruiting strategy, ensuring alignment with regional counterparts and best
  practices across locations.

Qualifications & Skills

• Extensive recruitment experience (ideally a minimum of ten years) within a law firm environment.
• Outstanding relationship-building skills and personable approach, combined with poise, gravitas, and theability to lead through influence rather than control, creating consensus-based support for business strategiesand decisions.
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills, with the ability to develop comprehensive short- and long-termstrategic operating and business plans from broadly stated objectives in a dynamic, global environment.
• Demonstrable record of successfully managing, mentoring, and developing a team of top-tier professional andfunctional leaders in a geographically dispersed organisation.
• Proven experience in driving innovation, creative thinking, and continuous improvement, with the ability toforesee the impact of emerging trends and patterns.
• Superior presentation, writing, and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.

What We Offer

When you join us, you’ll be working directly with partners, business leaders and many other inspiring colleagues across our global network of offices. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and development opportunities that will help you achieve your potential.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a finance professional, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, ourcross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work withconfidence in any one market or across many.

Location and Reporting

This role is based in our London office. This role reports to Associate Director, Recruitment, EMEA.

Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a current requirement for three days in the office per week.

Firm Benefits

We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements.
Some of the benefits currently available include:

• Private medical insurance
• Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
• Yearly wellbeing fund
• Income protection
• Holiday purchase
• Life insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Private GP services
• Travel insurance
• Dental coverage
• Cycle to work
• Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment)

Equal Opportunities

White & Case is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm's policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us. We will be happy to work with you.

The Firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.

1 The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.

Primary Location

Primary Location

: United Kingdom-London

Expected Workplace : Hybrid

Job Posting

Job Posting

: May 8, 2025, 11:48:20 AM

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