Global Head of Talent Acquisition

Role Overview

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for legal, legal operations, and legal technology roles across global delivery locations.
• Execute direct sourcing, headhunting, and pipeline development for priority roles in offshore and nearshore jurisdictions.
• Build scalable talent pipelines to support growth in managed services, legal technology delivery, and client engagements.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to translate delivery needs into hiring plans and role specifications.
• Design structured, repeatable hiring processes that ensure consistency, quality, and speed across regions.
• Manage the full offer lifecycle, including compensation negotiation, candidate engagement, and hiring risk mitigation.
• Own workforce cost efficiency across global hiring by developing salary benchmarking frameworks and location-based hiring strategies.
• Provide data-driven recommendations on optimal hiring geographies based on market availability, cost structures, and operational scalability.
• Continuously evaluate talent market dynamics to inform hiring strategy and workforce planning.
• Build hiring capability in lower-cost jurisdictions, including but not limited to Latin America, South Asia, Africa, and selected European nearshore locations.
• Act as the internal owner of recruitment systems and hiring data quality to ensure global consistency.
• Provide leadership with ongoing insights on key KPIs, including time-to-hire, pipeline strength, quality-of-hire, hiring manager satisfaction, competitor hiring activity, and salary movements.
• Support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives alongside leadership and marketing.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in legal recruitment, legal talent acquisition, or workforce scaling within legal services, legal technology, alternative legal services, or similar environments.
• Strong track record recruiting for legal delivery environments such as managed services, legal operations, contract lawyer teams, or legal technology-enabled services.
• Demonstrated experience hiring legal professionals into lower-cost or offshore jurisdictions.
• Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor in high-growth or scaling organisations.
• Strong global sourcing and headhunting capability for niche legal and hybrid legal-technology roles.
• Experience building recruitment frameworks, structured hiring methodologies, and scalable hiring systems.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to align hiring strategies with business growth objectives.
• Ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to use data for insights and decision-making.
• Strong relationship-building skills across all levels of the organisation.

Benefits

• Hybrid work, with the ability to request to work from other countries (upon request)
• Paid Sick Leave
• Confidential Support: Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Professional Development: 7 days per year of paid study leave annually for exams and structured learning.
• Annual Bonus: Discretionary and performance-based.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Annual leave + bank holidays.