Project Manager (12-month FTC)

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 firm’s 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 team’s 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 firm’s 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 you'll 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.