Project Manager - Contract

EMEA
International Operations
Leeds
Contractor

The SES team works with legal teams and clients to develop technology solutions that support the delivery of legal services and further increase our innovation offering. We at Eversheds Sutherland understand the need to ensure the fundamentals are delivered across the firm, but also that there will be a growing need to look at emerging and innovative technology to allow the firm to continue to deliver a quality service to our Clients. The Team focuses on how we can improve the service we deliver to our Clients across the firm, whether that’s using technology, innovation or process improvements.

The successful candidate will ideally be based in Leeds but we will consider candidates based in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, or Manchester.

Our Legal Service Design team work with our lawyers and business teams to provide:

  • Ongoing education on the implementation of Design Thinking and Lean Six Sigma techniques
  • Collaborative workshops within our business and directly with our clients to tackle real world issues
  • Efficient processes, reviewed and managed on a continuous basis to ensure optimal performance
  • Robotic Process Automation Centre of Excellence, seeking out opportunities to automate business processes, to find out more, please see the RPA link on the right of the page
  • Legal Tech Horizon Scanning, supporting the business in the implementation of new legal technology solutions, assessing their suitability, and supporting in the management of product trials/PoCs.

The Role:

The Legal Service Project Manager works with our Legal Service Design Lead and analysts, along with a range of business stakeholders, to deliver projects which enable better utilization of resource, improved business processes and best practice implementation. Working as part of the Legal Service Design team, the Legal Service Design Project Manager will be involved in every phase of the of the Service Design framework; agreeing project scope, planning timelines defining and managing budgets, scheduling resource, managing development cycles, reporting to project stakeholders, monitoring risks, escalating issues, and organising testing and user training to ensure effective adoption.

We are seeking an enthusiastic problem solver who is comfortable working within a fast-paced environment with the ability to manage a variety of stakeholders across the business and across multiple project workstreams or small-medium sized projects.

The successful candidate will ideally understand legal service offerings and knowledge of legal technology, process improvement methodologies and change project management. The candidate will promote the benefits of changing our approach to legal services and will lead on implementing innovative approaches and processes to push Eversheds Sutherland to the forefront of legal service delivery.

The successful candidate could be based in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds or Manchester. Some travel between Eversheds Sutherland offices will be required. They will be working closely with lawyers, clients and client relationship partners.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Drives a culture of continuous improvement through planning, leading, and delivering a range of process improvement projects
  • Builds excellent relationships within the practice groups, with international operations teams and with the firm’s clients working collaboratively with them to understand their requirements alongside any challenges to deliver legal service design that is fit for purpose.
  • Collaborates with practice group legal technology and legal project management teams and the IT team to share best practice, experiences, opportunities and threats so that solutions are designed to work firm-wide across all practice groups.
  • Collaborates with Risk, Cyber Security and IT teams to manage risk surrounding the design of new and innovative legal service delivery solutions ensuring the adherence and compliance to relevant IT, risk, quality and procurement policies.
  • Communicates project direction, approach, priorities, issues and status to project stakeholders
  • Manages project budgets

This opportunity is closed to applications.