Senior Legal Project Manager

About this role

The Company
hiring a Senior Legal Project Manager

A leading UK commercial law firm is growing a multidisciplinary team that brings together legal project management, technology and AI to improve how legal work is delivered. The role offers high-profile client work, strategic influence and the chance to grow the discipline firmwide.

Key Responsibilities
of the Senior Legal Project Manager

- Lead complex matters end to end
- Steer complex legal matters, programmes and key client engagements from start to finish.
- Set plans, governance and budgets
- Build delivery plans, governance structures, budgets and reporting that improve efficiency and transparency.
- Advise partners and clients
- Guide partners, lawyers and clients on best practice in legal service delivery.
- Drive client service improvement
- Run value-focused improvement projects alongside legal technology, AI, innovation and process specialists.
- Grow LPM and win work
- Contribute to client reviews, panel bids and pitches while helping expand LPM firmwide.

Skills & Attributes
of the Senior Legal Project Manager

- Legal project management expertise
- Significant LPM experience gained in a law firm or professional services setting.
- Complex delivery track record
- Proven leadership of complex legal matters, programmes or portfolios.
- Influential stakeholder manager
- Builds trust and influences partners, lawyers and clients with confidence.
- Commercial, client-focused mindset
- Combines commercial awareness with a collaborative, proactive and solutions-led approach.
- Change and innovation driver
- Delivers process improvement and change, with a real interest in technology and AI.

*UK right to work required. Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency and is committed to diversity and inclusion.*

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