Head of Employment
- Employer
- JMC Legal Recruitment
- Location
- England, West Midlands, Birmingham
- Salary
- £65000 - £90000 per annum
- Closing date
- 9 Dec 2020
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, Private Practice
- Experience Level
- Senior Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Employment
- PQE
- 7+ Years
Job Details
Work for an award-winning national law firm that value every employee at every level of the firm. Join a team of innovators, and the finest legal minds in the country, to handle an exceptional level of work with a hands-on client focus.
The Firm
This dynamic and state of the art law firm hosts a substantial team of sharp legal minds that pride themselves on the exemplary service they offer to individuals and businesses alike.
Bringing together the best in class in their top tier capabilities, the firm provides absolute value by consistently understanding the client's perspective, determining their needs and answering their questions in a language that they can truly understand.
The firm has experienced significant growth in recent years and remain in a dominant position financially despite market flux in the legal sector and wider economy. They have achieved this by building a stable portfolio of services while maintaining and developing key client relationships that will ensure their stability and facilitate further growth.
The firm is passionate about hiring the most innovative of minds in the Legal sector. They value the importance of technical excellence to meet the complex needs of their clients. Equally important is employing those with commercial acumen so they can further develop their client base. They actively encourage and listen to ideas from their employees to assist the firm in hitting their strategic growth goals.
The Role
The firm's highly rated employment team handles a wide range of excellent quality contentious and non-contentious work including advisory work on HR issues, disputes related work in tribunal and courts, drafting employment documentation, employee relations and transaction/outsourcing work. The team's workload is increasingly top end, complex, premium work and accordingly they are working to strengthen their capacity further.
The firm require a National Head of Employment to join the team and drive the national practice forward. You will drive the strategic growth of the national practice, develop the team, increase headcount and bring in a range of exciting new clients whilst maintaining the existing relationships that the firm have in place.
This is an excellent opportunity to drive a top 100 firm's national practice and shape and take ownership of the future direction of the practice. You will be given a huge amount of investment and support from Senior Partners.
Requirements
- 7 years + PQE from a respected Employment practice
- Strong leadership skills
- Commercial acumen and strategic focus to drive a national practice forward
Apply now for immediate consideration or call for a confidential conversation.
Company
JMC Legal Recruitment was founded by highly experienced Legal Recruitment Consultant, Jason Connolly. His motivation to establish JMC was to create a refreshingly friendly agency with a truly consultative approach and who are always a pleasure to deal with.
We're a dynamic business with our sights set high and a growing client base spanning the country. We believe that in any business the most valuable assets are the people – and it’s true of JMC, too. Whether dealing with candidates or firms, our consultants’ passion for legal recruitment and excellent market knowledge always shines through. Our state of the art software means our consultants are more accessible to you and we keep ahead of the curve in the changing legal landscape to ensure you are always given up to date advice.
What can you expect from us? We will always manage your expectations and come back to you with updates as soon as they become available. We pride ourselves on the highest level of integrity, as we understand that when looking for a new role or member of staff it is often highly confidential. You will find that we always take the time to really listen and understand before we advise. We will get to know you, taking into account not just technical ability, but personality and cultural fit. We’re also easy to get hold of; we appreciate that when looking for a new role it can be difficult to talk during the working day, so we will make ourselves available and find a time that works for you. Give us a call and talk to one of our friendly team today. We’re waiting to help you.
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