Senior Legal Project Manager

Ashurst is seeking a Senior Legal Project Manager in Sydney or Melbourne to enhance legal project management within their Disputes and Transactions practice groups. The role involves collaborating with clients and internal teams, applying project management methodologies, and supporting strategic goals. The position offers flexible work options, extensive career development, and a commitment to social impact and sustainability.
Description

About Ashurst Advance:

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 ashurst.com.

What we can offer you:

The future of legal services is at the centre of the firm's strategy, and we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our objectives and grow our unique offering. By joining us you will be at the forefront of change in the legal industry and part of a team devoted to innovation, global collaboration, diversity, and growth. We also offer:
• 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:

The Legal Project Managers in our Legal Operations team help to drive greater efficiency, transparency and certainty in legal matters through the provision of effective project management support.

Your role will involve working closely with clients, Partners, lawyers, and your Ashurst Advance colleagues to apply Project Management methodologies to live matters and may also include client secondments and internal firm projects linked to further driving efficiency and profitability. The team also offers a LegalOps Consulting service which helps clients outpace operational change and find creative risk mitigation solutions for a range of matters.

As a result of strategic growth, we are currently looking to hire a Senior Legal Project Manager in either Sydney or Melbourne to support our Disputes and/or Transactions practice groups. Depending on the specific legal experience and skills you bring you will help to implement and enhance the practice group's adoption of legal project management and continue to build cohesive collaboration between the practice group and Ashurst Advance.

On a daily basis you will support the Director of Legal Operations (based in the UK) to deliver strategic goals, including leading business development initiatives, developing and launching new capabilities, building the Ashurst Advance LPM profile internally and externally in the region, and leading training initiatives. All these activities will be in close collaboration with colleagues in the legal practice groups, Ashurst Advance, Ashurst Consulting, and business development teams.

This role combines practical project management support, strategic growth leadership, and stakeholder/client relationship management.

Please review the job description attached to the role on our careers site as it provides more detail around the team, role, what we can offer you, and what we are looking for.

We are interested in hearing from people who have:
• Extensive Project Management experience of large transactions/projects and/or disputes, in a professional services or consultancy firm.
• Ideally you will be a qualified transactional or disputes lawyer with a minimum of 3 years' practicing experience, however this is not essential.
• Experience managing the whole project lifecycle, including scoping, scheduling, costing, resourcing, communications, quality and risk control.
• An ability to build relationships quickly and engage commercially and effectively with internal and external stakeholders/clients at all levels.
• A desire to be a part of a growing team that's seeking to change the way we provide advice to our clients.
• An ability to communicate and present complex matters in a clear and effective manner using plain English (both verbally and written).
• Curiosity and an enthusiasm to challenge, innovate and think differently.
• Experience utilising legal technology, including generative AI, and a keen desire to be across technological change and how to utilise that to deliver advice/support for stakeholders.
• Qualifications and experience in change management and process improvement such as PROSCI® and Lean Six Sigma is desirable but not essential.
• APM, PMP, PRINCE2, AGILE or equivalent project management certifications is desirable but not essential

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.comfor 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.