Role Overview
Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.
Our people are our success, and we work as one team.
We are recruiting Talent Acquisition Assistant on an initial maternity cover contract to run until the end of July 2027. The role supports the coordination and delivery of recruitment activity across the firm, ensuring a high-quality and efficient service to both internal stakeholders and candidates. The team is spread between Manchester and Birmingham, and we are happy to base the role in either of these locations.
This role would suit someone already operating at a junior level in an in-house role looking a step up and more direct candidate engagement, or someone working in a busy agency looking for their first move in-house.
Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to gain exposure to high-volume recruitment and niche single hire activity, develop candidate engagement skills, and build experience within a professional services environment.
Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, and we operate a 3 days in the office, 2 days from home working model, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
1. Experience in recruitment, resourcing, or wider talent acquisition within a corporate or professional services environment.
2. Experience managing high volumes of candidate applications, including CV handling and administration, across multiple service lines.
3. Exposure to candidate sourcing and screening activity including direct candidate engagement via various methods (phone, video calls, email etc).
4. Proven ability to coordinate interviews and manage recruitment processes end-to-end.
5. Strong stakeholder engagement experience, with a client first mentality.
6. Experience working with recruitment systems or databases to manage candidate information accurately.
7. Able to evidence a forward-thinking nature, to be able to horizon scan and see opportunities or threats before they arise.