Head of Conveyancing

Anthony Collins Solicitors; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist law firm in Birmingham is seeking a self-motivated individual with strong management skills to lead conveyancing teams. The candidate should have technical legal expertise in conveyancing work and experience in delivering exceptional client service. This position involves overseeing plot sales and ensuring that work is conducted to high standards. The firm promotes equality of opportunity and values dedicated professionals.

Qualifications

• Experience in running a volume conveyancing team.
• Excellent management and drafting skills.

Responsibilities

• Head plot sales, home ownership, and right to buy teams.
• Ensure high standards of work and client service.
• Onboard and train new team members.

Skills

Management skills

Client service

Technical legal expertise in conveyancing

Job description

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We are seeking a self-motivated driven individual with strong management skills who can direct our teams to deliver a high quality service in an efficient manner whilst delivering exceptional client experience together with the ability to grow and deliver the teams further.

The successful candidate needs to have technical legal expertise in conveyancing work and training and development will be provided. Our vision is to be the leading law firm in our sectors where clients can trust us to manage the sales and other legal work for their large property portfolios to a very high standard.

Key duties of the role include:

• Head up plot sales, home ownership and right to buy teams
• Ensuring work carried out by the team is to a high standard, including:-
• set up of schemes for sale (shared ownership and outright sale)
• plot sales (shared ownership and outright sale)
• right to buy and right to acquire sales
• individual property sales and purchases
• lease extensions (statutory and voluntary) [excluding service of and dealing with notices at the outset of the transaction]
• collective enfranchisement [excluding service of and dealing with notices at the outset of the transaction]
• deeds of variation to shared ownership and other leases
• dealing with requisitions from previous sales
• Day to day management and supervision of the above teams to ensure excellent client service is provided and client KPIs are met
• Ensure financial and KPI targets are met.
• Monitor work levels and staffing levels and, work with HR and Resourcing to deal with any recruitment requirements
• Onboard and train new team members effectively
• Consider and implement as necessary new technology and processes
• Ensure excellent client service levels are upheld and client reviews are undertaken
• Ensure weekly and other reports are provided to clients
• Work with colleagues on business development of new prospective clients and CRM of existing clients
• Work with colleagues to deliver and implement strategy as to the work types undertaken by the team, efficiencies and growth
• Work with colleagues and marketing to raise the internal and external profile of the team

About the candidate

The successful candidate should have the following experience;

• Have experience of running an efficient and successful volume conveyancing team.
• Experience of acting for Housing Associations would be helpful but not essential.
• Excellent management and drafting skills are required and a willingness to understand and engage with Housing Association to re that the quality of the product is high.
• Has experience delivering exceptional client experience together with the ability to grow and deliver the teams further.
• Technical legal expertise in conveyancing work

About the firm

Anthony Collins Solicitors is a specialist law firm with a clear purpose – to “improve lives, communities and society". For over 40 years we’ve been successfully combining market-leading legal expertise with a commitment to excellence and long-term relationships underpinned by a strong set of values.

What makes Anthony Collins Solicitors distinctive, beyond simply being a sector-specialist law firm, is our people and the values we share. We’re extremely proud of the calibre of people that we attract; people who are inspired by our values, motivated by our vision and work with our clients to positively influence the society and communities we are building together.

Anthony Collins Solicitors is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.