Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, governance and delivery of complex legal matters, programmes and strategic initiatives.
• Work closely with partners, lawyers and clients to define scope, objectives, delivery approaches and success measures.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, budgets and resources to ensure successful outcomes.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across legal, operational and technology workstreams.
• Develop reporting, governance and management information that provides clear visibility of progress and performance.
• Support the implementation, mobilisation and transition of new client services and solutions into operational delivery teams.
• Design and embed efficient, scalable delivery models and ways of working.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, quality and client experience.
• Support business development activities and help demonstrate the value of Legal Project Management to clients and prospective clients.
• Coach and mentor junior members of the Legal Project Management team.

What We're Looking For

To be successful you will have:

• Significant project or programme management experience within legal services, professional services, consulting or a similarly complex environment.
• Experience delivering large, multi-stakeholder projects and programmes.
• Experience implementing new services, operational processes or business change initiatives.
• Experience supporting the transition of projects into operational or business-as-usual delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence working with senior leaders, lawyers and clients.
• A structured and pragmatic approach to planning, governance, risk management and problem-solving.
• Strong commercial awareness and a focus on delivering value and client outcomes.
• Excellent communication, organisation and influencing skills.
• A recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent practical experience.

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms.

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring.

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