Legal Projects Assistant Manager (12-month FTC)

Are you looking for a role in a dynamic and agile working environment that will provide you with an outstanding opportunity to help shape how a modern in-house legal team works, as well as further your ongoing personal and professional development? Are you experienced in data analysis and want to expand those skills?

JOB TITLE: Legal Projects Assistant Manager (12-month FTC)

SALARY: £39,825 - £44,250

LOCATIONS: Bristol, Edinburgh, Chester, Leeds and Halifax

HOURS: Full-time or part-time (Open to discussion)

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Our Litigation & Contentious Regulatory (LCR) team, led by General Counsel, are a forward-looking and innovative legal team, currently undertaking a transformation to a fully agile way of working. Sitting at the heart of LCR is the newly established Legal Practice Management (LPM) team, whose objective is to lead the operational model, modernise processes and data and, most importantly, support our lawyers to provide the expert advice and support to businesses and functions across the Group relating to disputes and contentious regulatory matters.

You'll join the LPM team as a Legal Projects Assistant Manager. You'll predominantly be supporting the ongoing motor commission litigation and related contentious project work, working closely with Lawyers and Heads of Legal as well as our external panel law firms, focusing on supporting the strategic management of the project, cost management, MI and reporting.

You will also play a key role with activities as we continue our transformation to make LCR a fully agile team. This will involve supporting the rest of the LPM team across a wide range of initiatives, front and centre of which is the drive to a data focused and fully cohesive way of working.

The role is being advertised as a 12-month FTC to cover maternity leave. However, permanent opportunities within the team may be available. We will also consider flexible working arrangements.

What you'll need

• The successful candidate will need to deliver in a fast moving and changing environment, contribute to the identification and delivery of ongoing transformation and simplification initiatives for the relevant project and the wider team.
• They will need to be adept at building relationships and driving activities that best allows and supports our Lawyers to focus on the legal issues at hand.
• They should be confident and experienced in working with and managing data.
• They will need to be able to work collaboratively with the LPM team and other internal and external stakeholders, managing project requirements, change activity and problem solving.

Capabilities/experience:

We need someone with a sound understanding of project management principles, with ideally (but not essential) previous experience working on legal projects in a law firm and/or in-house.

Other key capabilities include

• Ability to use and interrogate data to produce insightful analysis and reporting.
• Experience and skill using Excel, Power BI and other relevant applications and a strong desire to enhance those skills.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate ideas, risks, and strategies - both orally and in written form.
• Ability to drive transformation using agile delivery methods.
• Ability to build trusting and collaborative relationships.
• Strong organisational skills and good attention to detail.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.