Project Manager (12-month FTC)

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Linklaters is a global law firm providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

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.

Your role

As Technology Project Manager you will be a key member of the Technology projects team responsible for the end to end delivery and successful completion of technology projects to bring about positive change for our lawyers support staff and clients.

You will have a focus on ensuring that projects are delivered effectively and well-embedded in the business in accordance with best practice and the firms project management methodology.

In doing so you will work closely with our Project Management Office colleagues in the project management team other members of the Technology department business teams such as Finance Marketing and HR and our lawyers.

This is a great opportunity for people who have a desire to work in a global organisation on high impact projects covering Legal tech enterprise-wide applications in-house software development infrastructure and office move projects.

All aspects of project management and the project management lifecycle:

Ensure project requirements are clearly understood and aligned with project objectives.
Establish the project organisation provide leadership and develop a team to achieve the objectives
Facilitate the selection of project suppliers/resources
Responsible for ensuring compliance to firms project process
1st point of escalation ad resolution for all project related risk/issues deriving from the project team escalating to Head of Project Management as required
Line management of resources in a project context (internal and external) ensuring performance project updates project health is managed in accordance with the Firms project process and professional standards.
1st point review and or creation for all project related documentation Business Cases/PIDs/Reports/Change etc
Responsible for overseeing the project budget including spend to date forecast to close FY accounting and changes
Risk & Issue management ability to find plan and take mitigating actions against of project threats and resolve problems in a dynamic and collaborative way
Realistic planning; ability to apply project rationale and pragmatism to project plans (quality budgets schedules)
Resource planning forecasting and estimating of effort required from others to meet your project objectives.
Stakeholder management; keeping others included supported and involved at all levels.
Strong leadership with a passion and drive to meet project time cost and quality constraints and when challenged seeks trade offs and alternatives to ensure project success.
A hard working supportive and collaborative work ethic which sets an example to others

About you

At least 3 years experience working within a project environment
PRINCE 2 Practitioner and APM equivalent
Budget control in a project environmen
Supportive and collaborative project team leader
Able to guide direction and make decisions
Success and results-oriented
Strong accountability
Flexible and able to cope with changing priorities
Can work under pressure and remain calm in such situations
Inclusive style and a good communicator at all levels

Our benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution youll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

Private Medical Insurance
Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

Pension and flexible savings options
Income protection and life assurance
Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle

Electric car and cycle to work schemes
Emergency family care
Additional holiday/birthday leave
Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
Travel insurance and season ticket loan
Option to join sports and social clubs as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network With Pride or Social Mobility Networks

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.

Required Experience: