Resource Manager (Advisor level) - 12 month FTC

Linklaters Italy; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Private Medical Insurance

Free in-house fitness centre

Free onsite GP service

Pension and savings options

Income protection

Family & Lifestyle

Electric car and cycle to work

Travel insurance

Employee networks

Job summary

Linklaters is seeking an experienced Resource Manager to join the London Mainstream Corporate (MSC) team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will advise Partners and senior leaders on capacity and deployment to optimise utilisation and profitability while driving sustainable growth.

This role blends commercial insight with strategic workforce planning and stakeholder influence. Based in London with a hybrid model, you will influence headcount decisions, pipeline planning and resourcing

Qualifications

• Proven resource management experience in a professional services or similar environment.
• Experience in managing teams and developing others.
• Strong commercial awareness and impact of resource decisions on profitability and utilisation.
• Credibility to advise and influence senior stakeholders with data-driven insight.
• Excellent relationship-building and collaborative working style.

Responsibilities

• Lead resource planning and allocation for the London MSC practice.
• Advise leadership on capacity, utilisation and workforce strategy.
• Provide forward-looking pipeline and resourcing insights.
• Support headcount planning and talent deployment decisions.
• Drive data-led decision making through reporting and analytics.
• Identify innovative resourcing solutions, including flexible talent models.
• Champion fair, inclusive allocation practices across teams.
• Develop junior members of the Resource Management team.
• Partner with HR to support wellbeing, development and career progression.

Skills

Resource management

Stakeholder management

People development

Data analysis

Commercial awareness

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.

The Role

Ready to play a pivotal role at the heart of one of the firm's largest and most dynamic practice groups? We're looking for an experienced Resource Manager to join our London Mainstream Corporate (MSC) team, where you'll act as a trusted adviser to Partners and senior business leaders, helping shape how legal talent is deployed to deliver exceptional client service, strong financial performance and sustainable growth. This role is offered as a 12 month fixed term contract. This is far more than a traditional resource management role. You'll combine commercial insight, strategic workforce planning and stakeholder influence to ensure the right people are working on the right matters at the right time. Working closely with Work Allocation Partners, the Practice COO, HR and senior lawyers, you'll have a direct impact on utilisation, profitability, talent development and long-term workforce strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Leading resource planning and allocation across the London MSC practice
• Acting as the primary adviser to leadership on capacity, utilisation and workforce strategy
• Providing forward-looking insight on pipeline, demand and resourcing requirements
• Supporting headcount planning and talent deployment decisions
• Driving data-led decision making through reporting, analysis and workforce intelligence
• Identifying innovative resourcing solutions, including flexible talent models, legal technology and AI-enabled approaches
• Championing fair, balanced and inclusive allocation practices
• Managing and developing junior members of the Resource Management team
• Partnering closely with HR to support wellbeing, development, performance and career progression across the practice

What We're Looking For

We're seeking a commercially minded resource management professional who thrives in a fast-paced, complex environment and is confident operating at senior stakeholder level. You'll be equally comfortable analysing workforce data, influencing Partners and navigating sensitive people matters with discretion and emotional intelligence. You'll bring:

• Proven resource management experience within a professional services, legal or similarly complex environment
• Previous people management experience and a track record of developing others
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of how resource decisions impact profitability, utilisation and business performance
• The credibility and confidence to challenge, advise and influence senior stakeholders
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to turn data into meaningful business insight
• Strong relationship-building skills and a collaborative approach
• Sound judgement when managing sensitive, confidential or people-related matters
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset and the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
• A genuine commitment to inclusion, fairness and equitable allocation practices
• An appreciation of how legal practices operate and the commercial drivers behind client work

What's on offer

This role is based in London office, with a hybrid working model. Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success.

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

Technical Skills 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.

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.