Senior Legal Project Manager

The Matter Optimisation (MO) function at Linklaters works closely with the Firm's Practice Groups to design and deliver high quality legal solutions for clients. The function is structured according to 3 global practice divisions: Corporate, Finance and Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations and Centres of Excellence (CoE) to ensure seamless alignment with Practices, adoption of optimised ways of working, effective best practice, and sustainable growth to meet clients' evolving requirements. The function comprises of several capabilities: Paralegals and Support Lawyers, LegalTech, Legal Project Management, Translation and our contract lawyer platform Re:link, who work together to maximise the client experience, whilst generating profitable revenue for the Firm.

The purpose of the Legal Project Manager role is to provide the Madrid practice and practices across Europe with project management expertise to support the delivery of client matters. This involves developing a deep understanding of the key transactions in order to define requirements and implement support models in line with Matter Optimisation and LPM best practices, legaltech tools and services, providing a high-quality project management expertise that enhance efficiency and deliver greater value to clients.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the key Matter Optimisation organisation, services, products and best practices.
• Proactively identify LPM service delivery opportunities in new client matters handled by the Madrid Office.
• Conducting matter 'take on' conversations to understand the matter requirements and advising how LPM support can best be leveraged, and cross-selling other Matter Optimisation services where appropriate.
• Present and pitch to the client Matter Optimisation and LPM services and products that can be requested by clients.
• Providing LPM support on matters in line with the legal project management service offering.
• Supporting activities to raise awareness of the Matter Optimisation and LPM capability (e.g. delivering training, supporting marketing efforts) across the Madrid office and across Europe, where required.
• Advising on appropriate technology and resourcing solutions from across Matter Optimisation to support effective matter delivery, signposting to and liaising with relevant specialist teams as appropriate.
• Proactively contribute to the continuous improvement of the LPM services and products, support the development and maintenance of best practice project management guidance, including collaboration with other Legal Project Managers, Matter Optimisation Teams and practice areas within the Firm to discuss challenges or issues and innovate by introducing new tools and ways of working.
• Join relevant internal and external fora and attend relevant global / regional Matter Optimisation meetings, calls and events.

Your Experience

• Minimum 3 years' of project / change management experience in a professional services environment, ideally within a law firm
• Proven experience in successfully developing and/or implementing changes and business improvement initiatives.
• Competent in MS Office applications, particularly Excel, and experience using technology to support project delivery

Qualifications

• Degree in Law, Business, Economics, Engineering or any other related academic backgrounds
• Qualifications in project management (e.g. Prince 2 / IPMA) and change management are desirable but not essential

Additional Skills

• Highly motivated individual with a proactive, pragmatic and resilient approach
• Ability to build credibility quickly amongst team members and key stakeholders, and establish themselves as a trusted advisor
• Excellent at building, maintaining, and leveraging relationships to support both team and firm objectives
• Excellent communicator with ability to engage effectively with stakeholders of all seniorities to facilitate business outcomes
• Fluency in both English and Spanish

Linklaters
Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide.

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.

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business
• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment, and governance responsibility commitments
• We remain focused on talent and having the best people which will result in a diverse workforce
• Having got the best people, we want them to feel included, valued and respected so they can perform at their best
• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to
• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations
• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect, and appreciation
• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed
• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

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.