Senior Legal Operations Lead: Strategy & Efficiency

Ryder Reid Legal; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Private medical insurance

Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Ryder Reid Legal, a leading international law firm in the United Kingdom, seeks a Senior Legal Operations Manager to drive operational excellence, financial performance and strategic delivery across key legal practice groups, notably Finance Law.

You will translate priorities into actionable plans, partner with senior lawyers and business services, and lead initiatives spanning budgeting, performance monitoring and process improvement.

Qualifications

• Significant legal operations, practice management or professional services operations experience.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with ability to interpret business performance metrics.
• Experience supporting strategic planning and executing business improvement initiatives.
• Outstanding stakeholder management skills, capable of engaging senior leaders and partners.
• Proven project management and change management experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience leveraging technology to enhance operational performance.
• Proactive, solutions-focused with high attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic operational partner to Practice Group Leaders and senior management.
• Drive operational excellence across legal teams, improving processes, productivity and service delivery.
• Lead and support business planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance monitoring.
• Analyse utilisation, profitability and resource deployment to inform decisions.
• Partner with Finance, HR, BD and Technology to align support with objectives.
• Champion process improvements and AI-enabled solutions.
• Oversee strategic projects, initiatives and change programmes.
• Deliver management information, reporting and presentations for senior stakeholders.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and workforce planning initiatives.
• Monitor compliance, risk management and adherence to policies.

Skills

Legal operations

Practice management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Change management

Data analysis

Technology adoption

AI-enabled solutions

Job description

Ryder Reid Legal, a leading international law firm in the United Kingdom, seeks a Senior Legal Operations Manager to drive operational excellence, financial performance and strategic delivery across key legal practice groups, notably Finance Law.

You will translate priorities into actionable plans, partner with senior lawyers and business services, and lead initiatives spanning budgeting, performance monitoring and process improvement.