The role:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Project Manager to join our Legal Project Management team.
The role will include supporting our fee earners in the delivery of legal matters using project management best practice. It will also include supporting the Head of Legal Project Management in continually building the reputation of legal project management and contribution to firm’s performance.
We’re looking for someone to own how we deliver complex client matters, within the corporate and commercial practice group. As a fee-earning legal project manager, you’ll will work across our three sub-groups – Corporate, Energy Natural Resources & Infrastructure, and Digital Business.
What will you do:
- Apply Project Management best practice to the most complex matters.
- Set matters up for success from initial scoping, planning, delivery, mobilisation to lessons learnt.
- Assure our clients and lead matter partner that we are delivering to quality, on time and on budget.
- Co-ordinate project management activity across matters.
- Control and monitor matters.
- Communicate with clients and key stakeholders in real time and accurately.
- Manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Identify opportunities and challenges from an early stage.
- Demonstrate value and financial savings in effective matter delivery.
- Work with fee earners to deliver complex legal mattes using project management best practice.
- Collaborate with the Head of Legal Project Management to maintain a high reputation for delivery across the firm.
- Build a credible relationship with Partners and associates across the Corporate and commercial team, to ensure matters are delivered using project management best practice.
- Coach fee earners in applying project management principles on their matters.
- Collaborate with our Marketing & Business Development team to identify opportunities.
What we are looking for:
- A Project management professional accreditation (or can show you’re working towards one).
- Consulting, coaching and advisory skills.
- Excellent client facing skills – someone who can build great relationships.
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills.
- Competent with all Microsoft office software.
- An interest and aptitude for new and developing technology.
- Good analytical skills and can produce engaging, concise, and timely management information.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
- The ability to empathise with fee earners while providing clear project management advice.
- Able to work effectively as part of a diverse and inclusive team.
- Ability to influence and strong personal presence.
- Ability to deal with uncertainty.
- Experience of project management of client-facing, complex matters in a , professional services firm or leading international firm or in-house legal function.
Career Level:
The career level assigned to this role is level 4. The career level framework provides a formal structure for the business services functions at the firm. The framework, which ranges from level 1 to level 7, clearly defines the responsibilities, skills and competencies required at each level.
