Practice Resource Manager

Ashurst Perkins Coie Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Wellbeing benefits

Career development programs

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie is recruiting a Practice Resource Manager to support a fast-paced, high-energy practice group in London. This role focuses on implementing PRM services, staffing across grades, and ensuring resources align with project needs and capacity.

You will collaborate with HR and leadership to drive agility, manage talent, and participate in projects aimed at improving efficiency and responsiveness of the firm’s resourcing function.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in resource management or people operations within a large professional services or corporate environment.
• Proactive with a positive, flexible, assertive attitude.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills at all levels and the ability to adapt to different audiences.
• Strong project management and organisational capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Staff Graduates, Lawyers, Senior Associates and Counsel on a daily basis to meet demand.
• Support the Practice Management strategy across the firm’s Global Network and enable agile resourcing.

Skills

Resource management

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Organisational skills

Deadline-driven

Job description

Description
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

Description
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
  

The Opportunity:
Practice Resource Management (PRM) and Work Allocation was established to enable our practices to be more agile in the ever-evolving markets in which we work. PRM aligns work to lawyers taking into account their experience, their development needs and their capacity. Put simply, PRM helps ensure we are providing the right people on the right projects at the right time, across all of our services.
We are looking to recruit a Practice Resource Manager to support a complex, fast paced and high energy practice group. The high volumes of resourcing requests require an organised and thoughtful response that delivers fast turnaround on a daily basis.
As a Practice Resource Manager, you'll play an important role in implementing and supporting the delivery of PRM services, helping to provide operational excellence. You'll work with the business to support the firm's strategy around agility and mobility of our people and will support the firm's people agenda.
You'll be responsible for the staffing of Graduates, Lawyers, Senior Associates and Counsel, on a daily basis. You will also have the opportunity to support the Practice Management strategy across the firm's Global Network. You will have an important role in talent management and liaising with the HR and leadership teams, to discuss individual performance and development. You will also be involved in a range of projects that are designed to improve the efficiency and agility of the firm.
This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.
More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site: Careers | Ashurst Perkins Coie
About you:
The successful candidate will have:

• Prior experience in a resource management, people operations, workforce planning or similar role - ideally within a large professional services or corporate environment.
• Experience of working in another role within a medium-large size law firm, either in an operational role or as a lawyer looking for a change of career direction.
• Proactivity with a positive, flexible, assertive attitude.
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement skills at all levels, the ability to build relationships quickly and flex approach to be credible to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to work with tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills.