Senior Legal Project Manager

Description:

Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our Legal Project Management ('LPM') team.

The Legal Project Management team consists of 20 colleagues, split across London, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Australia and Dubai. This role is an exciting opportunity to continue development of the team's presence locally alongside an LPM Analyst, for which the successful candidate will take line management responsibility. Daily responsibilities include:
 

• Communicating the LPM proposition at appropriate forums
• Building an effective network and pipeline of matters
• Working with legal teams to identify and implement new solutions
• Strategic delivery of multiple projects/legal matters
• Defining and validating scope of projects
• Time and budget management
• Creating project plans, schedules and action trackers
• RAID management and providing options for mitigation or resolution
• Applying lean principles and business process mapping to create efficiencies
• Stakeholder management including kick off meetings and steering meetings
• Supporting bids and tender programmes
  
   

We are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
 

• Experience of managing multi-workstream project teams
• Experience of pitching and bidding for new opportunities
• Experience of working in a client-facing project management role, ideally in a global legal/professional services business
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Experience of project delivery in Disputes or e-Discovery would be beneficial