Harcourt Matthews
Senior Legal Project Manager
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Senior Legal Project Manager
Bristol - Hybrid (3 days a week)
Excellent Salary + Benefits
The Company
The Company hiring a Senior Legal Project Manager is a highly regarded UK law firm with a strong reputation for delivering exceptional legal advice across a broad range of sectors. The firm continues to invest heavily in transformation, technology, and innovation, creating an environment where operational excellence and collaboration are central to delivering outstanding client outcomes.
Key Responsibilities of the Senior Legal Project Manager
- Lead complex legal matters: Manage complex legal projects from mobilization through to completion, ensuring effective planning, resource management, budget control, and successful delivery throughout the matter lifecycle.
- Develop and lead the team: Provide day-to-day leadership, mentoring, and line management to Legal Project Managers, supporting their development while helping to grow and strengthen the wider function.
- Drive strategic initiatives: Support the delivery of the Legal Project Management strategy by implementing improvement initiatives, expanding the team's reach across the firm, and championing best practice.
- Enhance client delivery: Work closely with legal teams, finance, business development, innovation, and clients to improve collaboration, mitigate project risks, and deliver consistently high standards of service.
- Promote continuous improvement: Develop project management methodologies, tools, and training, contribute to business development activities, and help raise the profile of Legal Project Management internally and externally.
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Skills & Attributes of the Senior Legal Project Manager
- Legal project management expertise: Proven experience leading complex legal projects within a law firm or professional services environment, with an in-depth understanding of legal project management methodologies.
- Leadership and stakeholder management: Strong people management skills with the ability to coach, influence, and build trusted relationships with partners, clients, and senior stakeholders across the business.
- Commercial and strategic mindset: Able to balance operational delivery with strategic planning, bringing commercial awareness and contributing to the ongoing development of the Legal Project Management function.
- Excellent communication skills: Confident communicating complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences, with strong negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building abilities.
- Problem-solving and continuous improvement: A proactive approach to identifying risks, improving processes, and embracing innovation, supported by excellent attention to detail and advanced Microsoft Office skills.
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