Senior Practice Manager

The role is designed to provide operational and strategic support to the Business Group Director, ensuring the business plan is delivered effectively and aligned with evolving priorities. The position allows the BGD more time to focus on client relationships and business development activities.

Requirements

• Develop, maintain, and adapt the Business Group Business Plan, ensuring it reflects evolving priorities and market conditions.
• Prepare periodic Business Group Executive Board and other firm level reporting, utilizing data analytics and reporting tools to generate insights that inform strategic decision making.
• Cascade the Business Group Business Plan into individual Practice Area plans, ensuring alignment and consistency.
• Produce regular Practice Area performance reports to monitor progress and outcomes, identifying areas where AI tools and workflows can help create efficiencies.
• Lead, coordinate, and advance special initiatives, projects, or interventions that arise from Business Group or Practice Area objectives, particularly those outside standard business-as-usual processes.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and highlight key activities and performance achievements across Business Services teams supporting the Business Group, fostering collaboration and alignment with Practice Areas to optimise support for strategic priorities.
• Proactively identify instances where actual performance deviates from expectations outside of standard functional reporting, facilitating corrective interventions to bring performance back on track– working hand in hand with the relevant functional expertise.
• Help drive the adoption of AI technologies to support document drafting, knowledge management and client service delivery.
• Collaborate with the firm's innovation and IT teams to identify, evaluate and deploy legal technology solutions relevant to the Practice Area.
• Work with the Business Group Director to ensure clear and regular communication on priorities at Partner and group wide level.

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Holiday (25 days plus discretionary day and up to five extra days per year)
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (up to 26 weeks full pay after one year service)