Senior Legal Project Manager
Location: Northern Ireland
The Opportunity
- Lead an LPM team as Senior Manager in the UK and EMEA (and in time other regions if applicable).
- Lead the delivery of PG specific priorities with the other Senior Managers and lead strategic projects.
Core responsibilities include:
- Delivering excellence in Legal Project Management service delivery to the firm's PGs.
- Financial Management and Financial Performance of LPM team in line with relevant budget targets.
- Strategic management of LPM in towards demonstrable growth of the business unit - in respect of financial performance and the evolution of product offerings.
- Value added Business Development activities both internally and externally.
- Formulate and communicate a clear vision and value proposition for LPM and clearly define and communicate its services to internal and external clients.
- Communicate a clear vision for your team and demonstrate exceptional leadership.
- Establish and maintain robust processes for quality delivery of work including developing and maintaining sustainable models of operational best practice in legal project management.
- Implement and manage robust risk and governance procedures.
- Implement and manage robust financial management processes including time recording and productivity tracking and reporting.
Lead a high performing team which will include:
- Creating a framework to ensure team members' focus is directed towards activities that deliver optimal outcomes and maximum value to the firm.
- Setting clear KPIs for team members and actively monitoring and reporting on performance against these.
- Leading to build a high-performance culture where team members are engaged and inspired to work at their highest capacity. Manage performance actively and identify and address gaps in capability and performance.
- Coordinate team members to ensure effective collaboration, cross-pollination and teaming in service delivery and across own team and across the Digital Delivery PG more widely.
Qualifications, skills & experience
- Degree qualified.
- Over five years post-degree experience in a law firm or other professional services firm and at least 3 years of experience as a Legal Project Manager.
- Comprehensive understanding of the legal process and typical work product in a law firm environment (including managing large matters).
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building skills including experience in building strong relationships of trust with senior stakeholders and/or clients.
- Demonstrated financial acumen and understanding of key financial performance indicators.
- Demonstrated ability to simplify complex concepts to understand and communicate information.
- Strong systems skill set and an ability to rapidly pick up new systems.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Presents and facilitates with clarity, energy, confidence and enthusiasm, including structured interviewing.
- Senior stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building skills.
- Attention to detail with ability to simplify complex concepts to effectively communicate information.
- Skilled at prioritising demanding workloads and working on projects as part of an international team
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About Brimstone Consulting: We specialise in finding highly qualified staff in the following areas:
Forensic Accounting & Fraud - (AML/CTF, Investigation, CFE's etc.); Legal and LegalTech (E-Discovery, Digital Forensics, EDRM); Big Data and Data Analytics- (MI/BI/CI);InfoSec and Cyber Crime; Audit; Accountancy and Finance; FinTech (Payments etc.);Risk - (Credit, Regulatory, Liquidity, Market, Analysts-SAS, SPSS etc.);Compliance/Corporate Governance ;IT- (full SDLC- BA's PM's , Architects, Developers etc.);
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