Technology & Data Engagement Advisor

Linklaters Italy; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical & health benefits

Pension & savings options

Learning & development programs

Employee networks & inclusion

Job summary

Linklaters is seeking a strategic, highly analytical leader to shape the Technology & Data function. You will translate priorities into actionable roadmaps, engage diverse stakeholders, and drive clear, impactful communications across the firm.

You will plan, orchestrate, and report on delivery, ensuring progress against KPIs and addressing risks. This role blends strategy, programme management, and change leadership in a global law firm.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and spoken communication across audiences and seniority levels.
• Ability to translate complex topics into clear, actionable plans.
• Experience across strategic, programme and operational contexts.
• Analytical thinking to connect business and technology impacts.
• Ability to build a coherent picture from incomplete information.
• Curiosity, questioning, and adaptability in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and programmes.
• Communicate complex topics clearly to diverse audiences.
• Plan and coordinate engagement across time horizons and audiences.
• Create concise materials and updates for leadership.
• Foster collaboration across the Technology & Data function and the firm.
• Show progress with clear metrics and identify risks and gaps.

Skills

Clear communication

Strategic thinking

Analytical mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Storytelling & presentation

Stakeholder management

Job description

Linklaters

Linklaters 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.

Your role

• Bring direction and priorities to life: Work with the Strategy Lead and accountable leaders to understand Technology & Data’s agreed direction, priorities, programmes and significant departmental activity. Show why they matter to the firm, its clients and colleagues. Decisions and accountability remain with the relevant owners.
• Make complexity understandable: Develop enough organisational and technical understanding to communicate with accuracy and confidence. Connect different perspectives, spot what is missing or unclear, and take questions to the right person for resolution.
• Plan communication and engagement: Turn the most important activity across Technology & Data into a joined-up forward plan. Work with sponsors and teams to understand what each audience needs, shape the right messages and choose the most effective approach. Maintain a clear rhythm across the year, using feedback and evidence to improve what follows.
• Create clear and effective materials: Bring together contributions and shape them into clear, concise packs, briefings and presentations. Resolve editorial issues and flag substantive gaps before material reaches its audience.
• Bring colleagues together: Work closely with the CTDO, Strategy Lead and leadership team to make town halls and other forums valuable opportunities for colleagues to hear directly from leaders, understand what is happening and ask questions. Coordinate preparation, delivery and follow-up, helping everyone involved contribute at their best.
• Make progress meaningful: Turn approved roadmaps, KPI scorecards and leadership updates into a clear account of outcomes, progress and material risks. Work with accountable owners to make sure the measures and commentary tell a coherent story. Help each audience understand what the information means and what they need to do next.
• Build connection and participation: Create inclusive, two-way engagement across the global Technology & Data community and, where relevant, with colleagues across the firm. Help colleagues understand the direction, take the action needed and share what they are learning.
• Keep delivery moving: Coordinate planned and short-notice activity, making it easy for busy colleagues to contribute and keeping everyone clear on what is needed and when.

About you

• You communicate exceptionally well in writing, in presentations and in person.
• You know how to make a complex subject clear without stripping out what matters.
• You can work across strategic, programme and operational contexts, adapting the level of detail and communication approach while maintaining a coherent overall narrative.
• You think analytically and see how different parts of an organisation affect one another.
• You can build a coherent picture from incomplete or conflicting information and spot important gaps.
• You are curious and ask incisive questions.
• You test assumptions, learn quickly and distinguish the central issue from supporting detail.
• You enjoy working with people who bring different expertise and perspectives.
• You listen well, earn trust and are comfortable asking constructive questions, including when working with senior colleagues.
• You are genuinely interested in how technology and data can improve the firm.
• You do not need to arrive as a technical expert, but you will be keen to understand the opportunities, risks and choices involved.
• You are highly organised and dependable.
• You can keep several priorities moving, coordinate busy contributors and maintain quality when pace increases.
• You may have developed these skills in communications, change, consulting, analysis, technology or somewhere less conventional.

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. This is the place where talent meets opportunity and where passion meets purpose. At Linklaters, the work we do means carving a path through unexplored territory, working on complex legal matters, across jurisdictions and borders and providing outstanding service and confidence to our clients. Having the vision to see things differently and the determination to deliver excellence, every time. That’s what makes us who we are. You can see your true potential connecting with dynamic colleagues all over the world, united by purpose and shared values and working together as one inclusive, collaborative team. With second to none training and support, this is the place where you meet your future. This is Linklaters.

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 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)

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. 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.