Manager, LPM and Legal Operations

Location: Greater London

Our Legal Project Management team works closely with attorneys, legal support and clients to co-deliver legal projects. To ensure that legal projects are completed efficiently, on time and within budget, our team defines project scope, develops low-level and detailed project plans, and establishes clear timelines and budgets. Using appropriate project management methodologies, they track progress, manage resources and mitigate risks.

The team also facilitates communication and collaboration among all stakeholders, both internal and external, ensuring that everyone is aligned and informed throughout the project life cycle. By implementing best practices and continuous improvement strategies, the Legal Project Management team enhances productivity, improves client experience and supports the Firm’s commitment to delivering high-quality legal services.

Position Summary This is a unique opportunity to join a team that is implementing significant change, by focusing on client service excellence and process innovation. This manager role is a key part of the Firm’s strategy to deliver an enhanced client experience, increase profitability and demonstrate operational efficiency.

This role is part of the Firm’s global Legal Project Management (LPM) team. The team was set up to work with our lawyers to manage Client portfolios and to co-deliver projects; and also with our Clients and their in-house legal and operational teams.

The main focus will be on legal project management. From advice to delivery of the full project/matter lifecycle, the ideal candidate will have demonstrable project management capabilities preferably gained in a professional services environment. The candidate will be required to understand and assess business and change management needs and will have experience of delivering complex projects across multiple business functions, teams, geographies/jurisdictions and industries, defining scope and identifying the most appropriate project delivery approach in collaboration with our lawyers, other key stakeholders and Clients.

The Manager will have the opportunity to influence and help to grow the LPM capability and may also have line management responsibility for Senior Analysts/Analysts. They will be involved in development opportunities for more junior members of the global team. They will be someone who is able to work with limited supervision to effectively build relationships and manage project delivery.

The success of this role will be measured by the candidate adding value to the organisation by contributing to the roll out of LPM best practices, tools and techniques across our global Practice Groups.

Duties and Responsibilities In collaboration with the LPM leadership, build out the LPM capability and pipeline of work, influencing Partners and lawyers to adopt LPM on their matters

Operational management and co-delivery of legal projects/matters by:arranging Kick-Off Meetings, Project Team Meetings and Steering Meetings, ensuring attendees, standing agenda, record keeping and circulation are appropriate to the meetings’ purpose defining and validating project scope, not simply management of scope defining and tracking timelines, milestones, deliverables, assumptions and dependencies at the outset financial/budget management on projects/matters tracking progress and escalating changes in scope, time and/or budget to project stakeholders and ensuring effective corrective action is implemented, where required implementing effective risk and issue identification and management strategies, providing options for mitigation or resolution leading post project review and Lessons Learned workshops

Use of appropriate project management tools and techniques including drafting of all…