Player Coach - UK Leading full-service Law Firm
Working Hours/Shifts: Full Time – 37.5 hours per week
Location: Belfast – Hybrid or UK - Remote
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Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionizing how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.
Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.
The Role
The player-coach role takes a leadership approach that combines direct involvement in tasks with the responsibilities of guiding and mentoring the Sourcing team. It involves a hands-on style where the Player Coach will actively work alongside the team whilst providing direction, support, and coaching
You will work with the team to ensure an efficient and flexible support service is provided. You will be a point of contact to the team; dealing with queries relating to the sourcing function, taking responsibility for the resolution of those queries to a satisfactory conclusion and dealing with escalation of issues. You will also participate in sourcing activities and take ownership of your own list of requisitions. This role is a blend between a Team Lead and Principal Sourcing Specialist.
Key Accountabilities
* You will Source (identify) active and passive candidates where required utilizing different channels (e.g. professional social networks, client database, job board databases) and following Channel Activation Matrices or other directions as appropriate
* Managing and developing a diverse sourcing team
* Training, coaching & advising your team to build its technical and strategic capability
* Recognizing and rewarding growth, building team engagement
* Playing a positive role model, proactively leading the team to think strategically and adapt to changes and new initiatives.
* You will develop an expert level of understanding of the client's business, strategy and
* competitors and an high overall sector understanding
* Providing support to the team to develop targeted sourcing plans, ensuring they can bring insights driven solutions to recruitment challenges.
* Maintaining accuracy in reporting to drive accountability, manage capacity and identify areas of improvement. Recognizing core trends that might drive change.
* Partnering with recruiters to drive collaboration, share challenges and ensure robust resolution plan is implemented.
* Work with the Sourcing Manager and Team Leads to continually identify ways to improve the service delivery, driving a culture of continuous improvement and idea sharing
Skills & Experience
You'll need to demonstrate:
* Experience of working within the Legal space
* Experience in identifying and introducing process innovations
* Making timely decisions regarding process and communicating effectively to ensure
* Relevant internal parties receive support/updates
* Strong recruitment (and sourcing) experience within a busy and challenging environment
* Ability to inspire and motivate a team
* Capable of providing constructive feedback
Other
Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. Together, it means more insight and expertise for our clients and more exciting career paths and experiences for us.
Apart from our benefits package, you'll also get to enjoy the flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that works best for you. We just focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other however you choose.
We offer:
* Full training and support
* High value and challenging work
* A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
* Flexible working
* A competitive reward and benefits package*
* The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies
*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.
Our culture of inclusion and belonging.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.
If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.
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We take pride in being
Disability Confident.
This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish