Employment Partner

Womble Bond Dickinson; West of England; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Womble Bond Dickinson is seeking a partner to lead the Bristol employment practice. The role focuses on managing key client relationships, marketing the team’s expertise, and delivering growth across the national platform.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years post-admission experience, a strong track record in building employment practices, and a clear commercial perspective with a role-model leadership style.

Qualifications

• Legal qualification with 8+ years post-admission experience.
• Experience building and sustaining an employment practice.
• Deep sector/market understanding and awareness of trends affecting clients.
• Ability to demonstrate revenue prioritisation and commercial focus.
• Effective coach and sounding board for team members with clear direction.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow existing key client relationships as the face of the employment team in Bristol.
• Market the team and its expertise to win new work.
• Drive the strategic growth of the practice and overall business.
• Develop people through coaching, mentoring and career development.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and innovation across the service delivery.

Skills

People leadership

Client relationships

Business development

Marketing

Coaching

Revenue prioritisation

Strategic growth

Industry leadership

Education

Qualified solicitor

Job description

Our talented and experienced employment lawyers specialise in services ranging from employee outsourcing to complex restructuring, providing clients with first class comprehensive legal advice. We offer each client a completely bespoke service, tailoring our legal advice and services to the specific objectives and culture of each organisation. Our substantial experience enables us to spot critical issues quickly and present solutions that help our clients achieve their business objectives.

What we're looking for?

We're looking for a partner with a credible track record in this sector, capable of delivering growth and increasing our national profile. The role will largely manage existing key client relationships and be the “face” of our employment team in Bristol, marketing the team and its expertise in the pursuit of new work. The team offers both contentious and non-contentious advisory support to our impressive FTSE 250 client base.

You'll also be expected tosupport and drive the wider strategic vision of growth for Womble Bond Dickinson. As well as driving our business forward, you'll have an equally important role to play in the development of our people, coaching and mentoring and taking responsibility for their career development.

What does the ideal candidate look like?

Being a passionate people leader and team developer, the opportunity to take the strategic lead for our Bristol employment team will be attractive and rewarding.

To be successful in this role, you'll need as a minimum:

• A legal qualification with 8+ year's post admission experience.


• Experience of building and sustaining an employment practice.


• An in-depth sector/market understanding and the impact of trends on clients.


• The ability to demonstrate a thorough understanding of revenue prioritisation.


• An effective coach and sounding board for team members giving a clear sense of direction and purpose.


• The ability to actively seek out opportunities for innovation and create process improvements.


• A role model with a commercial mind-set who ensures efficiency.


• An external profile as a leader in this field.


• Youunderstand how the provision of legal services should be delivered at a top 20 law firm.

What makes it great to work here?

We continuallywork hard to create an open culturethatsetsusapart from other firms.Ourculture givesusmuch more of a humanfeel,emphasisingthatwe're more than just suits!

As signatoriesto the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to usthatourpeople are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources andinitiativesdesigned tosupporthealth and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.

Through our DEI initiativeswe create anenvironment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and InclusionGroup, led byourBoard Sponsor, which workswithourcolleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constantdialoguewithourpeople about how we expandournetworks to bettersupporteverybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourageapplicants from all social backgrounds,ethnicities,disabilities, genderidentities and sexualorientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

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