Project Manager

Linklaters

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.

This role is based at our London office with a hybrid working model.

Your role

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

About you

Training and experience

- Experience working within a project environment
- PRINCE 2 Practitioner or APM equivalent
- Budget control in a project environment

Leadership

- 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

Style

- Team player, and sensitive to team dynamics
- Clear thinking and tenacious in achieving goals
- Not easily diverted or distracted
- Ability to provide sound advice under pressure
- Good attention to detail and clarity of presentation (options, issues)
- Proactive – driving progress via self and others

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
Budget Management, Communication Plan Development, Communication Strategy Development, Cost Management, Dependency Management, Plan Management, Project/Initiative Benefits Management, Project Management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Schedule Management, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management

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.