Harcourt Matthews
Manager, Legal Management Consulting
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Manager – Legal Management Consulting
Birmingham, hybrid working (3 days a week in the office)
£60,000 - £75,000 + bonus & benefits
The Company
A leading global consulting group is seeking a Senior Manager to join its globally regarded legal management consulting practice.
About the Role
This is a role for an experienced legal or consulting professional who is motivated by purpose-led work, collaborative leadership, and shaping the future of legal services through technology, people, and process.
The role works closely with law firms and in-house legal teams, helping them redesign how legal services are delivered, improve efficiency, and embed GenAI responsibly and sustainably.
Key Responsibilities
- Client Delivery Excellence: Delivers complex legal management consulting engagements, ensuring outcomes meet or exceed agreed objectives and client expectations.
- Consulting Management: Works as part of, and managing, specialist teams advising legal departments, contracts functions, and law firms across operating model, process, people, and technology change.
- Stakeholder Management: Manages communication across project teams and senior client stakeholders, building trusted relationships at appropriate levels throughout engagements.
- Team Development: Supervises and develops diverse teams, contributing to an inclusive culture while supporting the progression of less experienced colleagues.
- Service & Market Growth: Enhances existing offerings, contributes to new service development, and supports business development and go-to-market initiatives as the practice grows.
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Skills & Attributes
- Change & Transformation Expertise: Demonstrable experience leading complex legal or contracts-related transformation programmes, either in consultancy or in-house environments.
- Legal Operations Insight: Strong understanding of the challenges facing in-house legal functions and contract management teams, with a clear desire to deepen subject-matter expertise.
- Methodology & Delivery Skills: Hands-on experience across organisational assessments, strategy reviews, process redesign, and technology-enabled change initiatives.
- Communication & Management: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to influence stakeholders and mentor developing team members.
- Commercial & Strategic Mindset: Strong programme management capability, commercial awareness, and the ability to identify opportunities for client value creation and internal improvement.
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Application Information
Applications can only be considered from those eligible to live & work in the UK without restriction.
Additional Information
Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Harcourt Matthews is committed to diversity and inclusion. We value and encourage applications from all ethnicities and welcome everyone regardless of social background, disability, gender identity, and orientation. Diversity benefits us all and challenges our assumptions.
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