Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia

Thomas Reuters; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global company as a Project Manager in Legal Software Professional Services, overseeing implementations for corporates and legal firms across Asia. This role requires extensive experience in project management and the legal tech industry, focusing on client engagements and implementing effective software solutions. Enjoy a hybrid work model with competitive benefits and a culture of continuous professional growth.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

Career Development and Growth

Industry Competitive Benefits

Social Impact Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in legal advisory, consulting, or professional services.
• Background in technology-enabled transformations.
• Expertise in implementing technology in legal functions.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of Legal Software project implementations for firms across Asia.
• Drive successful implementation of Legal Software products.
• Establish strong project governance practices for product adoption.

Skills

Project Management

Legal Advisory

Client Relationship Management

Analytical Skills

Collaboration Skills

Education

Extensive experience in project management

Strong background in Legal Tech

Job description

Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia

The role requires the person to work closely with other project team members, peer project managers and partner consulting teams. The person will provide consulting services to external clients, manage and lead projects to successful outcomes for clients and Thomson Reuters, and be the partner to clients by providing deep subject matter expertise and helping them adopt technological change.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia, you will:

• Manage delivery of Legal Software project implementations for corporates and legal firms across Asia.
• Drive successful implementation of Thomson Reuters Legal Software products, including HighQ, Contract Express, and Legal Tracker.
• Establish strong project governance practices for product adoption and retention.
• Scope, create, and manage Statements-of-Work and workplans to ensure on-time, on-budget project completion.
• Manage portfolio profitability to meet financial KPIs.
• Build and leverage strong client relationships for upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise to clients, engaging with General Counsels and IT departments.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia if you have the following required qualifications:

• Extensive experience in project management, legal advisory, professional services, or consulting in client-facing roles.
• Strong background in Legal Tech industry, with experience in technology-enabled transformations.
• Expertise in implementing technology in legal functions with an understanding of efficiencies and challenges.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise-scale legal software implementation and legal operations.
• Strong collaboration skills, with ability to analyze and manage project risks effectively.
• High analytical skills for quick decision-making in complex situations.
• Fluent in English and Mandarin; position requires up to 25% travel.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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