Senior Innovation Advisor

As a Senior Innovation Advisor in our Paris office you will play a strategic role in driving innovation and efficiency across our legal services. You will collaborate closely with lawyers business teams and personal assistants spearheading initiatives that enhance client value and support our continuous improvement culture. Your remit will extend across identifying and delivering innovative solutions championing LegalTech and embedding new ways of working within the practice.

This role requires strong communication influencing and facilitation skills along with a deep commitment to continuous improvement and strong business acumen having affinity for both business and technology improvement.

Main components:

• Implement and manage LegalTech solutions (including GenAI solutions) for matters handled in the Paris office and across Europe.

• Lead and support innovation initiatives within the Paris office and coordinate the follow-up of these initiatives at European and global level.

Your key responsibilities:

• Innovation strategy and delivery: Identify design and deliver innovation initiatives that drive internal and client-facing efficiency. Take a leading role in assessing opportunities for improvement in legal service delivery including technology process and resourcing.

• Legal Tech leadership: Deliver LegalTech solutions on matters within the Paris office and across Europe e.g. by applying our Artificial Intelligence solutions or setting up and managing workspaces in our deal and matter management platforms

• Project and change management: Apply robust project management methodologies to innovation projects ensuring the successful implementation of solutions. Oversee planning coordination issue-tracking and change management providing regular updates to senior stakeholders.

• Stakeholder engagement: Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders including partners lawyers PAs and Business Teams. Influence and mentor colleagues to foster a culture of innovation and knowledge-sharing.

• Knowledge sharing and training: Share best practices internally and assist partners and lawyers on the solutions offering. Nurture a culture of continuous improvement across the office together with a guiding coalition of partners and lawyers.

• Market monitoring: Stay abreast of innovations in legal operations and emerging LegalTech trends. Attend relevant training industry conferences and global internal events to bring new ideas to the Paris office.

• Performance measurement: Develop and apply metrics to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of innovation initiatives report on outcomes and make recommendations for future improvements.

• Collaboration: Work with innovation colleagues globally to ensure alignment of strategy participation in global projects and sharing of knowledge between offices. Work with Business Development and Marketing (BD&M) to explore client-facing innovation events.

Your experience:

• Substantial experience (typically two to five years or more) in a legal operations innovation or business improvement role within a law firm consulting environment or professional services organisation.

• Previous experience in successfully developing and/or implementing innovation and business/ IT improvement initiatives.

• Proven track record in delivering technology-enabled transformation projects ideally in a legal environment.

Language requirements:

Excellent written and oral skills in French and English.

Education / Qualification:

Minimum level: Bac 5.

Optional: Law degree and/or project management certification (for example Prince2 or IPMA).

Additional skills:

Skills:

• Aptitude for Tech.

• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

• Strong stakeholder management skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills persistent and resilient.

• Flexible and able to cope with changing priorities.

• Creative and forward thinking able to push ideas through various workstreams.

• Adept at fostering relationships influencing senior stakeholders and driving cultural change.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills in both French and English able to tailor messages for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Self-starter able to work autonomously and collaboratively bringing projects through to successful completion.

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Additional experience with emerging technologies and LegalTech platforms is a strong advantage.

• Familiarity with emerging technologies relevant to legal service delivery such as Artificial Intelligence automation and data analytics.

• Business acumen and a strategic mindset with the ability to translate business and client needs into practical innovation solutions.

• Proactive solutions-oriented and committed to delivering high-quality outcomes.

Qualities:

• Sociable

• Accessible

• Excellent communicator

• Adaptable and flexible

• Confident

• Dynamic

• Professional

The Team:

You will be part of the dynamic TMT (Technology Media Telecommunications) team as a valued and strategic contributor to the firms innovation agenda reporting directly to the Paris innovation partners.

While you will be based within the TMT team your role as Senior Innovation Advisor will be truly cross-practice. You will work closely with all practice groups lawyers PAs and business teams across the Paris office. Your work will have firmwide impact as you collaborate to design and implement innovative solutions supporting client service and internal operations throughout the office.

Close collaboration with colleagues in the Paris office and across our European network is central to your successsharing knowledge and driving best practice in LegalTech efficiency and process improvement initiatives. We are excited to welcome individuals who are passionate about innovation eager to collaborate across teams and disciplines and motivated to make a meaningful difference for our clients and to the working life of everyone in our Paris office.

Linklaters:

Linklaters is a global law firm with 30 offices in 20 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.

What sets us apart:

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.