Freeths
Post Completion Team Lead - Real Estate
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Location: Flexible (Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Birmingham)
Department: Legal Administrative Services (LDS)
Shape the Future of Post Completion at Freeths
We're looking for an experienced Post Completion professional to lead and develop our newly created Post Completion Team within the Built & Natural Environment Division. This is an exciting opportunity to establish and shape a specialist function that will play a key role in delivering efficient, high-quality Real Estate support services across the business. You'll combine people leadership, process improvement and operational excellence to create a scalable service that supports both lawyers and clients.
What You'll Do
- Build, lead and develop a high-performing Post Completion Team.
- Manage post-completion services across a broad range of Real Estate matters.
- Establish best-practice processes, service standards and quality controls.
- Work closely with Partners, legal teams and business support colleagues.
- Drive continuous improvement, efficiency and the use of technology.
About You
- Significant experience of Real Estate post-completion processes within a law firm.
- Strong understanding of HM Land Registry and Registers, property registration requirements and associated post-completion activities.
- Knowledge of SDLT, Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, Land Transaction Tax and related post-completion compliance requirements.
- Experience managing high-volume, deadline-driven transactional workloads.
- Demonstrable experience leading and developing teams in a legal support environment - is desirable, though full training will be provided.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with Partners and legal teams.
- Previous team leadership experience is beneficial but not essential.
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We welcome applications from established Team Leaders / Senior Paralegals as well as ambitious senior post-completion professionals ready to step into their first management role.
If you're looking for the opportunity to shape a new team, influence how services are delivered and build a centre of excellence, we'd love to hear from you.
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Do we sound like a match? If you’re someone who cares deeply, communicates openly and collaborates effectively, then we’d love to have you join our diverse, inclusive team.
We’re 1,000+ Freethinkers, striving to create a better place. We’re committed to living our values – smart, bold, together – and making a positive change at every touchpoint for our colleagues, clients and communities.
We’ve built our law firm on solid foundations of integrity, entrepreneurialism and expertise. This has helped us grow into one of the largest full-service law firms in the UK, with 13 offices and over 1,000 colleagues, and counting.
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We’ve built our law firm on solid foundations of integrity, entrepreneurialism and expertise. This has helped us grow into one of the largest full-service law firms in the UK, with 13 offices and over 1,000 colleagues, and counting. Matching individual ambition and our firm’s ambition matters. That’s why we develop our people by making sure every one of our team feels connected through a clear progression pathway and leadership support. It’s helped us to grow an award-winning reputation in the eyes of our clients and competitors that each and every one of the Freeths team works hard to uphold in everything we do.
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Sharing success matters to us. We love to showcase excellent work across the firm and celebrate our people through our employee awards. We recognise our teams work hard together to deliver the best solutions for our clients. That’s why great work is well rewarded - our rewards and benefits are among the best in the business.
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Our people are at the heart of what makes Freeths such a great place to be. We’re a firm where people care about each other and employee wellbeing is high on the agenda. Our firm is set up to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, and mutual respect is shown by all. We understand that differences add strength, which means we maintain a diverse culture where everyone has the freedom to be themselves and thrive.
We're committed to championing diversity and building an inclusive culture. We want to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their background. We welcome applications from everybody, particularly those from marginalised backgrounds. We celebrate difference, encourage diversity of thought and are dedicated to continually challenging our processes to maintain fairness, equity and transparency.
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