Early Career Development Senior Manager Business Services

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm consistently ranked among the top firms in the world. The success of our firm is largely determined by our commitment to hire and develop the very best and brightest creating a team that provides our clients with the highest quality of work and service. We are driven by our core values: respect innovation and collaboration.

The Early Career Development Senior Manager Business Servicesis an integral part of Lathams Human Capital & Talent team and will be responsible for providing strategic oversight of the firms early business services talent and programs including the Business Services Training Program (BSTP) while analyzing current capabilities forecasting future needs and identifying gaps in skills numbers or roles. This role will be located in our New York office.Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and inoffice presence.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Developing and sharing best practices across offices and business service functions for early career talent while coordinating BSTP and other program leadership via regular calls and periodic meetings to facilitate the exchange of information regarding this talent pool
• Collaborating closely with the Business Services Recruiting team to optimize early career staffing across offices
• Consolidating performance feedback into a structured talent readiness framework to assess and manage the preparedness of early career talent for new roles or responsibilities and to identify those not meeting minimum expectations
• Partnering with the Global Learning and Development team to create comprehensive learning tracks that enhance readiness and contributing to the development and facilitation of both inperson and virtual programs to promote engagement networking knowledge sharing and skill development
• Collaborating frequently with the Career Navigator team to ensure early career talent receives consistent feedback coaching and mentorship that align with the readiness assessment and complement the functional performance review process
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive confidential privileged financial and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains
  

Wed love to hear from you if you:

• Demonstrate excellent and professional interpersonal skills including the ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
• Possess the ability to work in a team environment with a customerservice focus
• Exhibit strong communication skills both written and verbal

And have:

• A Bachelors degree or equivalent preferably with a focus Human Resources or related field; a minimum of eight 8 years human resources experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• A minimum of eight 8 years experience in human resources learning and development or related fields
• A minimum of four 4 years supervisory experience preferably
• Experience with developing implementing and administering learning and development programs preferably in a professional services environment

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Lathams comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Healthcare life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Wellbeing programs (e.g. mental health services mindfulness and resiliency medical resources wellbeing events and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups networks and coalitions for lawyers and staff

Latham & Watkins is an equal opportunity employer. The Firm prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race (including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles) color religion sex age national origin sexual orientation gender identity veteran status (including veterans of the Vietnam era) gender expression marital status or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable statute.

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