Legal Resource Manager
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- England,London,City of London
- Full Time, Permanent
- £80,000 - £90,000 per annum
Job Description:
Legal Resource Manager
We’re seeking a Legal Resource Manager with excellent stakeholder management skills, who can influence senior decision makers at a highly regarded UK law firm to drive a structured approach to managing fee earners across teams and locations, supporting diversity and inclusion, and enhancing people performance and development.
*Salary to £90,000 + fantastic employee benefits
*Hybrid working – 3 days in the office / 2 days WFH
*City Location
Key Responsibilities of the Legal Resource Manager:
*Be the business services lead for allocating work throughout the allocated teams and make sure there is a fair and equal access to work for fee earners.
*Improve career development by giving employees access to a wider variety of work which matches their development needs and aspirations.
*Develop excellent working and trusted relationships with Partners at the firm to gain a deep understanding on their practice, pressure points, and resourcing needs.
*Build a Resource Management presence in key team meetings and Partners’ meetings, as necessary.
*Review utilisation and overall hours / stats on a daily-weekly basis; flagging areas of concern to the Teams’ partners by way of providing weekly utilisation and projected capacity reports.
*Understand / map the skills in the team and proactively monitor, remind, and chase fee earners to update their capacity forecast on a weekly basis.
*Liaise with trainee supervisors to monitor trainee performance and allocate appropriate range of work.
*Keep track of holidays and mapping holidays to utilisation to pro-actively recommend work re-allocation solutions ahead of time.
Skills & Requirements of the Legal Resource Manager:
*Qualified lawyer or other professional with a law degree or relevant experience within a law firm / Resource management background.
*Strong commercial acumen and business awareness.
*Able to drive change and transformation; comfortable with ambiguity.
*Persuasive and able to influence senior decision makers.
*Experience working with resource management software would be advantageous.
We’re seeking a Legal Resource Manager with excellent stakeholder management skills, who can influence senior decision makers at a highly regarded UK law firm to drive a structured approach to managing fee earners across teams and locations, supporting diversity and inclusion, and enhancing people performance and development.
*Salary to £90,000 + fantastic employee benefits
*Hybrid working – 3 days in the office / 2 days WFH
*City Location
Key Responsibilities of the Legal Resource Manager:
*Be the business services lead for allocating work throughout the allocated teams and make sure there is a fair and equal access to work for fee earners.
*Improve career development by giving employees access to a wider variety of work which matches their development needs and aspirations.
*Develop excellent working and trusted relationships with Partners at the firm to gain a deep understanding on their practice, pressure points, and resourcing needs.
*Build a Resource Management presence in key team meetings and Partners’ meetings, as necessary.
*Review utilisation and overall hours / stats on a daily-weekly basis; flagging areas of concern to the Teams’ partners by way of providing weekly utilisation and projected capacity reports.
*Understand / map the skills in the team and proactively monitor, remind, and chase fee earners to update their capacity forecast on a weekly basis.
*Liaise with trainee supervisors to monitor trainee performance and allocate appropriate range of work.
*Keep track of holidays and mapping holidays to utilisation to pro-actively recommend work re-allocation solutions ahead of time.
Skills & Requirements of the Legal Resource Manager:
*Qualified lawyer or other professional with a law degree or relevant experience within a law firm / Resource management background.
*Strong commercial acumen and business awareness.
*Able to drive change and transformation; comfortable with ambiguity.
*Persuasive and able to influence senior decision makers.
*Experience working with resource management software would be advantageous.
Job number 3371232
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Larbey Evans
Larbey Evans is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy, providing Business Services, Document Review, eDisclosure and Management recruitment assis...