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Barclays is seeking a Legal Project Manager to join our Legal COO, Legal Supplier Management team. In this pivotal role, you’ll manage a portfolio of complex legal matters, working closely with law firms, internal legal teams, Finance, and Technology. You will deliver end-to-end project management for high-value legal matters, from scoping and planning to cost monitoring and milestone tracking. This role also involves advising internal counsel and stakeholders on best practices, innovative pricing models, and alternative resourcing. Other role responsibilities include, implementing LPM best practices, ensuring adherence across major matters and driving process improvements, champion new technologies across the Legal function.
Job Responsibility:
Scope Management: Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
Strategic Focus: Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
Time Horizon: Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
Stakeholder Management: Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
Risk and Issue Management: Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
Resource Management: Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
Financial Management: Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
Metrics: Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
Change Management: Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
Consult on complex issues
providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Requirements:
Proven experience in legal project management or a similar role
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Ability to innovate, solve complex problems, and drive continuous improvement
Experience with legal operations, cost control, and technology implementation is a plus
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
What we offer:
Working flexibly
Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days
Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
Commitment to providing a supportive and inclusive culture