Linklaters

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

This role is based at our London office with a hybrid working model.

Your role

All aspects of project management and the project management lifecycle:

• Ensure project requirements are clearly understood and aligned with project objectives
• Establish the project organisation, provide leadership and develop a team to achieve the objectives
• Facilitate the selection of project suppliers/resources
• Responsible for ensuring compliance to firm’s project process
• 1st point of escalation and resolution for all project related risk/issues deriving from the project team, escalating to Head of Project Management as required
• Line management of resources in a project context (internal and external) ensuring performance, project updates, project health is managed in accordance with the Firm’s project process and professional standards
• 1st point review and/or creation for all project related documentation, Business Cases/PIDs/Reports/Change etc
• Responsible for overseeing the project budget, including spend to date, forecast to close, FY accounting and changes
• Risk & Issue management, ability to find, plan and take mitigating actions against project threats and resolve problems in a dynamic and collaborative way
• Realistic planning; ability to apply project rationale and pragmatism to project plans (quality, budgets, schedules)
• Resource planning, forecasting and estimating of effort required from others to meet your project objectives
• Stakeholder management; keeping others included, supported and involved at all levels
• Strong leadership with a passion and drive to meet project time, cost and quality constraints and when challenged seeks trade offs and alternatives to ensure project success
• A hard working, supportive and collaborative work ethic which sets an example to others