Candidate Manager
6 days ago
**Company Profile**
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Cognia seamlessly extends corporates, banks and law firms’ legal capability to deliver sustainable outcomes. Our goal is to connect the legal sector, moving it from a siloed approach to integrated partnerships. We help in-house legal teams by bringing simplicity to complex matters and replacing broken procedures with efficient processes.
Cognia is a Chambers-ranked law company which integrates how legal services are provided so our team, partners, clients and communities thrive together with people at the heart of what we do. We encourage our people to bring their whole self to work and focus on enabling them to realise their full potential.
**Role Description**
Support the BD team with market intelligence relating to interim resourcing and up-to-date pricing information, networking effectively to develop a deep understanding of the industry and build qualified relationships with high quality prospects
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Build and establish rapport with interim legal professionals at all levels, with strong emphasis on personal connection
- Maintain continuous dialogue with Cognia’s interim resource pool through regular pre-hire and post-placement check-ins
- Cultivate and expand referral and alumni networks, working with internal Recruitment and Marketing teams to drive affinity with the Cognia brand
- Manage multiple concurrent resource requests and placements
- Communicate clearly and professionally
- Pay attention to detail and still keep your eye on the bigger picture
**Job Requirements**:
- A tertiary-level qualification (BA/BS)
- An excellent phone manner with objection handling skills
- Strong multi-tasking and organisational skills
- A very strong command of the English language (Written and Spoken)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build rapport as well as persuade, influence and engage stakeholders at all levels
- 3-4+ years’ experience as a customer facing relationship manager, ideally in legal services, financial services or professional services sector
Honest communication
- Creates channels for communication across Cognia and the different functions
- Constructively express challenging and sensitive views at senior level, whilst maintaining balance and respect for others
- Proactively communicates Cognia’s offerings and services externally
Being agile
- A self starter
- Drives new approaches across teams, creates environment where flexibility and adaptability are rewarded
- Gathers wide ranging and novel information, ideas and possible approaches to inform strategy development
Bringing the values alive
- Acts as role model and champion for Cognia values
- Demonstrates continual self-development and recognises that they must continue to learn and grow
- Encourages managers to pay attention to own well-being, self-development and self-awareness and to that of their colleagues
Building strong relationships
- Encourages others to harness and maximises the teams’ skills and experience
- Removes barriers to cross-functional working, ensuring effective dispersed teams
- Actively builds and nurtures network across industry and sectors who provide market data, advice, guidance and new business opportunities
- Champions employee development, ensures development opportunities are in place and managers are held accountable for developing employees
Delivering excellence
- Develops and implements models and frameworks for success
- Focuses strategically and proactively on approaches that deliver the best outcomes
- Uses data and feedback to anticipate issues and address them
- Cultivate an environment that supports continuous improvement, e.g. allowing mistakes without impacting end quality to client
- Does not let operational challenges or issues become obstacles to reaching end goal
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