Project Manager

Linklaters Italy; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Free in-house fitness centre

Free onsite GP service

Pension and flexible savings options

Income protection

Job summary

Linklaters in London is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead project delivery within a hybrid working model. You will ensure requirements align with objectives, establish teams, and manage budgets, risks, and stakeholders across the project lifecycle.

The role requires strong leadership, decision-making, and collaborative work ethic, with responsibility for documentation and supplier coordination.

Qualifications

• Experience working within a project environment.
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner or APM equivalent.
• Budget control in a project environment.
• Leadership - supportive and collaborative project team leader.
• Able to guide direction and make decisions.
• Inclusive style and a good communicator at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Ensure project requirements are clearly understood and aligned with project objectives.
• Establish the project organisation, provide leadership and develop a team to achieve the objectives.
• Facilitate the selection of project suppliers/resources.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance to firm’s project process.
• 1st point of escalation for project risk/issues; escalate as required.
• Line management of resources in a project context; monitor performance and health.
• Oversee project documentation such as Business Cases/PIDs/Reports/Change.
• Manage the project budget, including spend to date and forecast to close.
• Lead risk & issue management and mitigation actions.
• Plan pragmatically with attention to quality, budgets, and schedules.
• Coordinate resource planning and stakeholder engagement at all levels.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Risk management

Communication

Decision making

Team collaboration

Education

PRINCE2 Practitioner or APM equivalent

Job description

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind‑set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

About the role

This role is based at our London office with a hybrid working model.

All aspects of project management and the project management lifecycle:

• Ensure project requirements are clearly understood and aligned with project objectives
• Establish the project organisation, provide leadership and develop a team to achieve the objectives
• Facilitate the selection of project suppliers/resources
• Responsible for ensuring compliance to firm’s project process
• 1st point of escalation and resolution for all project related risk/issues deriving from the project team, escalating to Head of Project Management as required
• Line management of resources in a project context (internal and external) ensuring performance, project updates, project health is managed in accordance with the Firm’s project process and professional standards
• 1st point review and or creation for all project related documentation, Business Cases/PIDs/Reports/Change etc
• Responsible for overseeing the project budget, including spend to date, forecast to close, FY accounting and changes
• Risk & Issue management, ability to find, plan and take mitigating actions against project threats and resolve problems in a dynamic and collaborative way
• Realistic planning; ability to apply project rationale and pragmatism to project plans (quality, budgets, schedules)
• Resource planning, forecasting and estimating of effort required from others to meet your project objectives
• Stakeholder management; keeping others included, supported and involved at all levels
• Strong leadership with a passion and drive to meet project time, cost and quality constraints and when challenged seeks trade offs and alternatives to ensure project success
• A hard working, supportive and collaborative work ethic which sets an example to others

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

About you

• Training and experience
• Experience working within a project environment
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner or APM equivalent
• Budget control in a project environment
• Leadership Supportive and collaborative project team leader
• Able to guide direction and make decisions
• Success and results-oriented
• Strong accountability
• Flexible and able to cope with changing priorities
• Can work under pressure and remain calm in such situations
• Inclusive style and a good communicator at all levels
• Style Team player, and sensitive to team dynamics
• Clear thinking and tenacious in achieving goals
• Not easily diverted or distracted
• Ability to provide sound advice under pressure
• Good attention to detail and clarity of presentation (options, issues)
• Proactive – driving progress via self and others

Our Benefits

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave

Travel

• Travel insurance and season ticket loan

Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

• Budget Management
• Communication Plan Development
• Communication Strategy Development
• Cost Management
• Dependency Management
• Plan Management
• Project/Initiative Benefits Management
• Project Management
• Resource Management
• Risk Management
• Schedule Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Vendor Management

Diversity and Inclusion

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. Your offer will be subject to the successful completion of these checks which will be initiated following your consent.

We will never ask you to make payments for office equipment or otherwise as part of our recruitment process.

As a responsible business, it is important that we represent the diversity of our people, our clients and our communities. We know that diversity makes us a better law firm and helps us attract the best talent, drive innovation with diversity of thought, and deliver the best experience to everyone who comes into contact with us. We recruit on the basis of merit, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Selection decisions, and the reasons for those decisions, are recorded at each stage of the selection process.

Selection criteria and, where appropriate, technical skills tests are in place to measure an individual’s ability for the safe and effective performance of a job.

Those involved in recruitment and selection decisions and processes are also provided with guidance on diversity issues.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the selection process, please talk to a member of the recruitment team so that any required adjustments can be made in advance.

Specific experience requirements advertised on a role do not intend to preclude applications from candidates who may have more or less experience. Our intention is only to indicate a guideline as to the necessary skills for the role as described.

Important Information

In the event that we make an offer to you, if local legislation permits, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. Your offer will be subject to the successful completion of these checks which will be initiated following your consent.