Senior Legal Project Manager

Digital Data Foundation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Data Foundation in London seeks an experienced Senior Legal Project Manager to provide matter-specific guidance and LPM tools to deliver a streamlined service to stakeholders. You will draft and submit budget proposals, track costs, manage timelines, and continuously improve LPM processes while working with lawyers and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include building relationships across departments, managing budgets, and driving change in LPM practices to meet client

Qualifications

• Law degree or equivalent education.
• Minimum 5 years in Legal Project Management.
• Experience with senior business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities to deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide LPM guidance on best practices, tools, roles and responsibilities.
• Work with lawyers to draft and submit budget proposals and staffing plans.
• Identify issues as they arise, options for resolution and course correction for matters that are beginning to diverge from work plans and/or budget.
• Track and analyse costs against budget.
• Manage matter expectations with team members and client.
• Develop matter work plans; plan and track matter timelines & milestones.
• Build relationships and foster a collaborative approach to working with clients across departments.
• Continuous improvement to the LPM processes and support the change management of implementing these LPM processes.

Skills

LPM knowledge

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Change management

Education

Law degree

Tools

SharePoint

Extranets

Online data rooms

Collaboration tools

Job description

About the job Senior Legal Project Manager

Senior Legal Project Manager

£ Excellent Salary + Benefits - London

James Carrera of Digital Data Foundation is sourcing an experienced LPM to provide matter specific guidance and LPM technology / knowledge management tools to deliver a streamlined service to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide LPM guidance on best practices, tools, techniques, roles and responsibilities
• Work with lawyers to draft and submit budget proposals and staffing plans
• Identify issues as they arise, options for resolution and course correction for matters that are beginning to diverge from work plans and/or budget
• Track and analyse costs against budget
• Manage matter expectations with team members and client
• Develop matter work plans; plan and track matter timelines & milestones
• Build relationships and foster a collaborative approach to working with clients across departments
• Continuous improvement to the LPM processes and support the change management of implementing these LPM processes

Experience

Educated to degree level (preferably in Law) with at least 5 years progressive experience in Legal Project Management as well as;

• Experience in dealing with and building key relationships with senior business stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to manage multiple priorities cross-functionally to challenging deadlines
• Knowledge of extranets, online data rooms, collaboration tools and SharePoint sites
• Strong communication skills, able to interact at all levels key negotiation and influencing
• Financial reports analysis, providing financial analysis and insight of varying levels of complexity