Legal project manager

Senior Legal Project Manager Location: Northern Ireland The Opportunity * Lead an LPM team as Senior Manager in the UK and EMEA (and in time other regions if applicable). * Lead the delivery of PG specific priorities with the other Senior Managers and lead strategic projects. Core responsibilities include: * Delivering excellence in Legal Project Management service delivery to the firm #39;s PGs. * Financial Management and Financial Performance of LPM team in line with relevant budget targets. * Strategic management of LPM in towards demonstrable growth of the business unit - in respect of financial performance and the evolution of product offerings. * Value added Business Development activities both internally and externally. * Formulate and communicate a clear vision and value proposition for LPM and clearly define and communicate its services to internal and external clients. * Communicate a clear vision for your team and demonstrate exceptional leadership. * Establish and maintain robust processes for quality delivery of work including developing and maintaining sustainable models of operational best practice in legal project management. * Implement and manage robust risk and governance procedures. * Implement and manage robust financial management processes including time recording and productivity tracking and reporting. Lead a high performing team which will include: * Creating a framework to ensure team members #39; focus is directed towards activities that deliver optimal outcomes and maximum value to the firm. * Setting clear KPIs for team members and actively monitoring and reporting on performance against these. * Leading to build a high-performance culture where team members are engaged and inspired to work at their highest capacity. Manage performance actively and identify and address gaps in capability and performance. * Coordinate team members to ensure effective collaboration, cross-pollination and teaming in service delivery and across own team and across the Digital Delivery PG more widely. Qualifications, skills experience * Degree qualified. * Over five years post-degree experience in a law firm or other professional services firm and at least 3 years of experience as a Legal Project Manager. * Comprehensive understanding of the legal process and typical work product in a law firm environment (including managing large matters). * Strong stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building skills including experience in building strong relationships of trust with senior stakeholders and/or clients. * Demonstrated financial acumen and understanding of key financial performance indicators. * Demonstrated ability to simplify complex concepts to understand and communicate information. * Strong systems skill set and an ability to rapidly pick up new systems. * Ability to work independently and as part of a team. * Presents and facilitates with clarity, energy, confidence and enthusiasm, including structured interviewing. * Senior stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building skills. * Attention to detail with ability to simplify complex concepts to effectively communicate information. * Skilled at prioritising demanding workloads and working on projects as part of an international team #LegalProjectManagerjobs, #LPMjobs, #LegaljobsinNothernIreland About Brimstone Consulting: We specialise in finding highly qualified staff in the following areas: Forensic Accounting Fraud - (AML/CTF, Investigation, CFE rsquo;s etc.); Legal and LegalTech (E-Discovery, Digital Forensics, EDRM); Big Data and Data Analytics- (MI/BI/CI);InfoSec and Cyber Crime; Audit; Accountancy and Finance; FinTech (Payments etc.);Risk - (Credit, Regulatory, Liquidity, Market, Analysts-SAS, SPSS etc.);Compliance/Corporate Governance ;IT- (full SDLC- BA rsquo;s PM rsquo;s , Architects, Developers etc.); Brimstone Consulting acts as an employment agency (permanent) and as an employment business (temporary) - a free and confidential service to candidates. Brimstone Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. Due to time constraints we can only reply to applicants that match our clients rsquo; specifications. We may store applications in our cloud storage facilities that may include dropbox. *end