Technology Project Manager - Contract

As Technology Project Manager you will be 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.

We would expect the successful candidate to have many years experience running end to end project lifecycle management in complex environments.

Principal Responsibilities and areas in which experience is essential:

• 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 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

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. We are a global team and work on a broad range of change initiatives from large transformational change programmes, to cutting edge GenAI development projects and mass infrastructure rollouts.

Linklaters engages with a third-party provider for the provision of contractor and temporary staff. Therefore, upon acceptance of a temporary role at Linklaters, you will be engaged under a contract for services through our preferred third-party provider. You will not be employed by Linklaters, or have any employment or worker relationship with Linklaters.

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

We have been named as one of The Times’ Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality for the 10th year running, recognised by Stonewall as a top 10 employer for LGBTQ+ inclusion, and by the Social Mobility Employer Index as a top employer for advancing social mobility.

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an    ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further. We also recognise that women, especially, may hesitate to apply if they feel they may not meet every requirement listed despite being excited by the role. If this sounds like you, we’d really encourage you to apply.

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.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to this role must be directed to the recruitment team ( [email protected]) and not partners, practices or stakeholders.