Job Description
NA The Role Summary This is a unique opportunity to join a team that is implementing significant change, by focusing on client service excellence and process innovation. This Senior Manager role is a key part of the Firm’s strategy to support a stronger business, increase profitability and demonstrate operational efficiency. This role is part of the Firm’s global Legal Project Management (LPM) team. The team was set up to work with our lawyers to manage Client portfolios and to co-deliver projects; and also with our Clients and their in-house legal and operational teams. The main focus will be on legal project management. From advice to delivery of the full project/matter lifecycle, the ideal candidate will have demonstrable project management capabilities preferably gained in a professional services environment. The candidate will be required to understand and assess business and change management needs and will have experience of delivering complex projects across multiple business functions, teams, geographies/jurisdictions and industries, defining scope and identifying the most appropriate project delivery approach in collaboration with our lawyers, other key stakeholders and Clients. The role will require the Senior Manager to work directly with legal teams and clients on the Firm’s most significant matters and clients, by liaising with the partners and senior lawyers on the progress, profitability and efficiency of the matters and clients. The Senior Manager will have the opportunity to influence and help to grow the LPM capability and may also have line management responsibility for Managers and Senior Analysts/Analysts. They will be involved in development opportunities for more junior members of the global team. They will be someone who is able to work with limited supervision to effectively build relationships and manage project delivery. The success of this role will be measured by the candidate adding value to the organization by contributing to the roll out of LPM best practices, tools and techniques across our global Practice Groups. Main Duties And Responsibilities In collaboration with the LPM leadership, build out the LPM capability and pipeline of work, influencing Partners and lawyers to adopt LPM on their matters Operational management and co-delivery of legal projects/matters by arranging Kick-Off Meetings, Project Team Meetings and Steering Meetings, ensuring attendees, standing agenda, record keeping and circulation are appropriate to the meetings’ purpose defining and validating project scope, not simply management of scope defining and tracking timelines, milestones, deliverables, assumptions and dependencies at the outset financial/budget management on projects/matters tracking progress and escalating changes in scope, time and/or budget to project stakeholders and ensuring effective corrective action is implemented, where required implementing effective risk and issue identification and management strategies, providing options for mitigation or resolution leading post project review and Lessons Learned workshops Use of appropriate project management tools and techniques including drafting of all project-related documents and project artefacts such as project approach, project plans, schedules, action trackers, availability trackers, correspondence trackers, risk logs, status reports Implement and ensure effective communication strategies are in place and acting as the interface, where appropriate, to project specific stakeholders including our Clients, lawyers in other practice areas and offices, external and opposing counsel and third party vendors Provide LPM guidance on best practices, tools, techniques, roles and responsibilities Collaborate with legal teams to identify the most cost effective and level of resources available Collaborate with legal teams to draft and submit budget proposals; and with support from the Finance team, track and analyse actual project costs against budget and proactively address budget variances Build relationships and foster a collaborative approach between project workstreams including between our lawyers and our Clients Focused on lean principles and use of innovation and business process mapping, contribute to continuous improvement of the LPM Team’s processes including project management methodology, governance, training for legal teams and LPM best practice; and support of the change management of implementing these Management of concurrent projects Management of client portfolios with emphasis on legal operations, disputes and transactional projects and management of Firm’s strategic client innovation initiatives Lin