Senior Manager, Business Services & Experienced Legal - Americas

Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross‑border work.

Our people are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence, and represent 125 nationalities and speak 92 languages.

The Americas Senior Lateral Recruitment Manager will be responsible for coordinating and supervising the activities for the US Lateral Recruitment function (incorporating Legal and Business Services recruitment) at an operational level while contributing to the strategic direction and decision making to take our recruitment function to the next level and be a best‑in‑class function.

• Work closely with Global Director to develop strategic plans and a partnership with the business to deliver outstanding client service.
• Drive the lateral recruiting strategy, thinking creatively, strategically, commercially and competitively to meet our objectives of hiring top talent and recruiting for long‑term strategic fit.
• Manage the growing US lateral recruitment team, offering guidance and support, and ensuring a high level of service delivery across all vacancies, as well as managing the varying workloads across the team, providing support and managing reallocation as needed.
• Actively lead and manage roles in both legal and business services, in particular complex or difficult to fill vacancies, senior regional roles, and other challenging vacancies. Source candidates via search firms, web advertising, referrals, networking, candidate portals, etc.
• Keep abreast of trends in recruitment, market intelligence, and competitor benchmarking.
• Manage all reporting, metrics, and data management, and be able to report data accurately in real time. With a strong eye for detail and an analytical mind‑set, use data to tell the recruiting story, and demonstrate the ability to improve results year on year.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and partner with them on recruitment strategy. This will include recommending and acting on different approaches to lateral sourcing and recruitment, including the use of search firms, direct recruitment (particularly via Linked In), and advertising.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key search firms, ensuring we stay competitive with our terms and conditions, recognising that they remain a crucial source of talent.
• Manage the team’s use of our Applicant Tracking System (ATS), reviewing reports on a regular basis to ensure that we are tracking applications and candidates through the system, to allow accuracy of reporting as well as regular stakeholder management.
• Keep global mindset at the forefront of recruiting strategy, ensuring continued links with regional counterparts; participate in Global Recruitment meetings, sharing knowledge and new initiatives to ensure our global approach to recruitment is best in class.
• Work with regional counterparts to manage the Recruitment Approvals process on a weekly basis, supporting the firm’s leadership in workforce planning and headcount management.
• Work closely with colleagues in Recruitment and People Advisory across the US to ensure we maximize our reach and approach recruitment in a coordinated way.
• As a Senior Manager within the Global Recruitment team, participate in (and, where relevant, lead) firm‑wide projects designed to improve and elevate our recruitment…