Senior Legal Project Manager

Senior Legal Project Manager - 12 month FTCLondon£100,000 - £120,000 + Bonus & benefits

This prestigious, London-based law firm is renowned for its elite corporate, M&A, and financial law expertise, advising major global clients. We are supporting a fantastic opportunity to join this firm as a Senior Legal Project Manager, where you’ll play a key role in enhancing the delivery of legal matters through strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and process optimisation. Initially a 12 month FTC there is the possibility longer term opportunities.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Legal Project Manager

• Efficient Project Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end management of legal matters, ensuring they are delivered efficiently while challenging and exploring alternative approaches.
• Legal Project Management Tools & Processes: Implement and maintain project management frameworks to streamline legal workflows.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with senior partners, clients, and third parties to scope projects, create financial agreements, allocate resources, and identify suitable technologies.
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Lead kick-off meetings, team briefings, and ongoing project reviews, ensuring all workstreams stay aligned with client requirements.
• Financial Oversight & Resourcing: Monitor project budgets, optimise resources, and drive continuous improvements in efficiency and value.
• Client & Business Development: Support pitches and client presentations, showcasing how Legal Project Management (LPM) enhances service delivery.
• Training & Best Practice Implementation: Deliver training and workshops to embed a firm-wide approach to LPM, both internally and for clients.
• Trusted Advisor: Act as a key advocate for Legal Project Management within the firm, helping to drive its strategic goals and innovation agenda.

Skills & Attributes of the Senior Legal Project Manager

• Proven experience in Legal Project Management, client-facing Project Management, or Management Consultancy, ideally within a law firm or in-house legal team.
• Professional Project Management qualification (PRINCE2, AMP, PMP or equivalent) is highly desirable.
• A strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the value of LPM and challenge traditional ways of working.
• A collaborative and proactive team player with a problem-solving mindset.

Applications can only be considered from those eligible to live & work in the UK without restriction.

Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Harcourt Matthews is committed to diversity and inclusion. We value and encourage applications from all ethnicities and welcome everyone regardless of social background, disability, gender identity, and orientation. Diversity benefits us all and challenges our assumptions.

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