Jobs at CMS

Supports HR projects, change initiatives, and generalist HR advisory services across Business Services. Coordinates project plans, tracks milestones, prepares stakeholder updates, and uses people data to inform decisions. Advises managers on employee relations, performance, talent, absence, family leave, flexible working, wellbeing, reward, and succession planning. Builds trusted stakeholder relationships while supporting continuous improvement and cyclical HR activities.

Lead the firm's global Pro Bono programme, setting strategy, overseeing legal work, building partnerships, embedding participation across the firm, and measuring social impact. The role requires strategic leadership, organisational change, stakeholder engagement, innovation, governance, and collaboration with ESG and Social Impact teams.

Manage day-to-day secretarial staff and workflow for a practice group, deliver PA/operational support to Practice Group leaders, oversee mentoring, recruitment/induction, performance management, Workday leave/absence processes, quality checks, and lead continuous improvement and adoption of new processes and AI-driven tools.

Own vision, roadmap and adoption for assigned legal tech platforms. Embed tools into workflows, drive user adoption, run pilots/proofs-of-concept, ensure security and data protection, manage suppliers and contracts, deliver training and client-facing sessions, and partner with Innovation, Legal Operations and IT to prioritise and implement product improvements.

Lead and deliver business development and marketing for the Corporate practice: manage a BD team, own planning and budgets, build BD infrastructure, support pitches and proposals, run campaigns and events, drive client targeting, manage communications/PR, and coordinate directory and awards submissions.

Join a busy Insurance & Reinsurance team handling high-value coverage and defence matters for insurers and reinsurers. Work includes professional indemnity, FI/D&O, complex policy coverage, cyber breach response, and emerging claim classes. Client-facing role offering commercial advice, drafting, project management, and opportunities to specialise or maintain breadth while developing client relationships and market contacts.

Join a Capital Markets & Derivatives team advising financial institutions on structured finance, derivatives and capital markets transactions. Work includes drafting and negotiating securitised derivatives, structured products, repackagings, OTC derivatives, repos, stock lending, equity financings and debt capital markets documentation while building client relationships and supporting partners on complex matters.

Join a large Antitrust, Competition & Trade team advising on investigations, merger control, litigation, regulatory/trade matters, public procurement, state aid and consumer enforcement. Provide transactional, contentious and advisory work across sectors (Technology, Media, Life Sciences, Energy & Utilities), engage in client relationships and business development, collaborate internationally, and participate in cross-border matters with some travel. Comprehensive training and high responsibility from day one.

Lead and manage the Risk team: oversee inbox and analysts, handle escalations and complex compliance queries, supervise recruitment and training, resolve conflicts, advise on client terms, run audits/investigations, manage data protection issues and client file requests, maintain policies/processes, and lead strategic risk projects.

Provide day-to-day legal support on media rights sales and wider media, sports and entertainment matters. Lead workstreams for key clients, advise on tendering, contracting, financial and operational arrangements, and collaborate with IP, data protection, commercial, regulatory and disputes teams. Develop client relationships, build industry expertise, and adopt sophisticated AI usage to improve efficiency and quality of legal work.

Support planning, tracking and delivery of legal matters and internal projects using legal project management. Monitor timelines, risks and budgets; produce reports and visualisations; facilitate meetings; support process mapping, legal tech engagement, and improvement initiatives while building stakeholder relationships and contributing to training.

Serve as the disputes practice subject-matter expert for innovation and legal technology: evaluate and implement AI tools, design process and automation solutions, build Power BI dashboards, create knowledge assets and playbooks, embed standardized ways of working with Legal Ops, train lawyers, and support client-facing pitches and tech-enabled client solutions.

Serve as the first point of contact for clients and visitors, manage meeting room bookings, provide AV and video-conferencing setup and support, maintain reception standards, handle queries and administrative tasks, and assist with events and ad hoc client requests.