Senior Manager of Strategic Growth, Legal (Partner Level Recruitment)

With twelve offices across the United States, 450+ professionals and 350+ staff professionals, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP is a multidisciplinary, integrated national professional services firm known for quality and an extraordinary commitment to clients. The firm’s groundbreaking approach—bringing together legal services, advocacy and business strategy—differentiates Manatt from its competitors and positions the firm to provide a unique and compelling value proposition.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Strategic Growth Recruiting Manager, Legal, in either our Los Angeles or New York office. This position is an exempt position and reports to the Director of Strategic Growth, Legal, and works closely with the Group and Business Unit Leaders and various recruiting committees to execute a national recruiting strategy with a primary focus on lateral Partner searches.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work closely with the Strategic Growth, Director, Legal in the creation and implementation of the annual strategic growth plan, including providing leadership and vision for the recruiting/sourcing strategy and approach.
• Manage all aspects of the Firm’s recruiting efforts, including overseeing the interview evaluation, business justification, offer, and onboarding processes (working closely with Hiring Partners) with a primary focus on Partner recruiting, in addition to supporting the Strategic Growth, Director, Legal. May also participate in the Summer Program for current law students as needed.
• Use a variety of search methods (i.e. direct sourcing, search firms, internal referrals, LinkedIn Recruiter and Leopard List) to creatively identify candidates for proactive outreach.
• Work with the Strategic Growth, Director, Legal to review the lateral hiring process, including updating and managing correspondence of offer letters, reviewing offers for consistency and uniformity, and conducting due diligence to ensure compliance with risk management policies and procedures including conflicts checks, background checks and references.
• Research lateral target candidates and monitor sources for information about candidates, peer firms, market activity, industry trends, and other information relevant to lateral recruiting.
• Cultivate strong relationships with key agency recruiters in target legal markets.
• Review resumes and conduct initial screenings with candidates to determine whether candidates meet the hiring criteria and should be advanced to firm leadership.
• Schedule interviews and propose interviewer lists, collect and review feedback and manage travel arrangements. Serve as the main point of contact with candidates and referral source/search firm to lead them through recruiting process in a timely manner.
• Serve as contact for lateral candidates, monitor interview schedules and act as the firm ambassador.
• Work closely with the Director of Diversity & Inclusion to drive efforts to actively recruit diverse candidates at the firm.
• Support  and collaborate with the Strategic Growth Manager who focuses on recruiting summer associates to develop and implement strategies to brand and market the firm to schools and guide campus-specific marketing initiatives, including quarterly recruiting newsletter, recruiting brochures, outreach emails, and the recruiting pages of the website.
• Manage and train recruiting staff on processes and best practices and provide work direction with clear performance expectations for accountability, professional development opportunities, and contribute to the performance review process.
• Manage conflicts clearance process by reviewing hiring questionnaire, submitting with conflicts team to run check, identifying and elevating potential issues, reporting results to sponsoring partners and candidates and managing any needed recommendations.
• Manage background check clearance by reviewing completed report, identifying, elevating and resolving potential issues, reporting results to necessary parties and managing any needed recommendations.
• Assist with additional Strategic Growth projects/assignments as needed

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of recruiting experience, preferably in an AmLaw firm or other professional services environment; recruiting and managerial experience required.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills and client service oriented: can effectively interface with attorneys and consultants at all levels, staff, law school administrators, and recruiters.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and competi