Digital Transformation Senior Manager

Ashurst is seeking a Digital Transformation Senior Manager in Sydney, Australia, to lead digital transformation initiatives across the firm. The role involves designing and embedding digital solutions, improving productivity, and enhancing client experiences. Candidates should have at least 3 years of legal experience and proven capabilities in digital transformation within professional services. The position offers flexible work options and extensive career development opportunities.
Description

Ashurst Advance is a global leader in the delivery of innovative and digitally enabled legal services. Leveraging our deep experience across delivery, managed services, digital, legal operations and flexible resourcing, we work seamlessly with our legal advisory and risk consulting teams to provide fully integrated solutions to address our client's most complex legal challenges.

To find out more please visit our website .

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?
• Flexible work options
• Market leading parental leave of 26 weeks paid leave irrespective of gender
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and corporate health plans
• Genuine opportunities to grow your career through secondments or global opportunities,
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including tailored professional development for all employees, coaching, mentoring and study support for further education.
• We have a strong commitment to social impact, demonstrated by our extensive volunteering and pro-bono opportunities, as well as our award-winning social inclusion and mobility programs.
• We are committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The Opportunity

As a result of tremendous growth and investment in digital solutions we are looking to hire a Senior Manager to drive digital transformation across all parts of the firm. You will take a lead role in designing and embedding digital solutions to drive value and business outcomes, improve productivity, create efficiencies, and enhance the employee and client experience.

Working as part of the Digital Experience community within Ashurst Advance Digital you will provide digital experience expertise and methodologies for strategic digital initiatives, legal service transformation, and digital change management and engagement.

You will collaborate with colleagues across legal, consulting, Ashurst Advance and business services to:
• identify opportunities for digital transformation, especially in legal delivery, and design and deliver those solutions, services or capabilities;
• stay abreast of the evolving capabilities of the digital solutions in the firm/market to further drive transformation and support strategic digital decision making; and
• support Digital Culture and Enablement initiatives across the firm to empower everyone to think and act more digitally.

A full job description including a breakdown of responsibilities can be found attached to the role on our careers page http://careers.ashurst.com/

We are interested in hearing from people who have:
• At least 3 years' experience as a practising lawyer.
• Proven digital legal transformation experience capability gained in a professional services environment or in-house, including managing transformation team members.
• Demonstrable experience of driving digital transformation and working alongside design, product and change professionals to deliver digital transformation initiatives.
• Hands on experience of legal technology tools and enthusiasm and excitement for legal innovation, digital transformation and continual learning.
• Very strong communication, facilitation, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Passionate about getting your hands dirty, training others, and working proactively in a fast-paced, constantly adapting environment.
• Agile, adaptable, and open to learning with the ability to harness ambiguity to shape new opportunities and approaches whilst delivering quality at pace.
• The ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders with legal/non-legal backgrounds, bringing together the knowledge, expertise and skillsets of multiple professionals to achieve outcomes and drive more collaborative ways of working.

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

For more information or if you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: globalresourcing@ashurst.com for a confidential conversation.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.