Senior Practice Manager

The opportunity for you

This is a strategic and operational role working alongside the head Partner (Business Group Director) for our Real Estate and Banking & Finance teams, ensuring that the commercial business plan is delivered effectively and aligned with evolving priorities. By managing key initiatives and streamlining workflows, this position allows the BGD more time to focus on client relationships and business development. The role plays an important part in driving strategic planning, performance management, and fostering innovation within the Business Group and its Practice Areas.

The role is a generalist role, operating alongside and in addition to, and not in substitution for, the specialist functional expertise dedicated to supporting the Business Group (Talent, Finance, Business Development, Risk). The role will work closely with Partners, lawyers, and business services teams to ensure the Business Groups alignment with firm wide objectives and will support data driven reporting to enable informed decision making and continuous improvement.

The role will have joint accountability to the Business Group Director and to the Chief Operating Officer.

The weighting of involvement in any one area of the Business Group's Management activity will be at the direction of the BGD reflecting their personal choice as to where assistance would add the greatest value.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and adapt the Business Group Business Plan, ensuring it reflects evolving priorities and market conditions.
• Ensure Business Plan is being executed working with relevant stakeholders
• Lead, coordinate, and advance special initiatives, projects, or interventions that arise from Business Group or Practice Area objectives, particularly those outside standard business-as-usial processes.
• Preparation of the periodic Business Group Executive Board and other firm level reporting, utilising data analytics and reporting tools to generate insights that inform strategic decision making.
• Cascade the Business Group Business Plan into individual Practice Area plans, ensuring alignment and consistency, working with senior BD, Talent and Finance advisors.
• Produce regular Practice Area performance reports to monitor progress and outcomes, identifying areas where AI tools and workflows can help create efficiencies.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and highlight key activities and performance achievements across Business Services teams supporting the Business Group, fostering collaboration and alignment with Practice Areas to optimise support for strategic priorities.
• Proactively identify instances where actual performance deviates from expectations outside of standard functional reporting, facilitating corrective interventions to bring performance back on track- working hand in hand with the relevant functional expertise.
• Help drive the adoption of AI technologies to support document drafting, knowledge management and client service delivery.
• Collaborate with the firm's innovation and IT teams to identify, evaluate and deploy legal technology solutions relevant to the Practice Area.
• Working with the Business Group Director on partner objectives ensuring they're aligned to the overall strategy and tracking them regularly.
• Working with the Business Group Director to ensure clear and regular communication on priorities at Partner and group wide level.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of the legal sector.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.
• An innovative mindset with an understanding of AI applications and legal technology trends.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence and engage senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Experience in managing complex projects and initiatives.

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1250+ lawyers, 350+ partners, 26 offices and 16 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Management team, with the addition of a Senior Practice Manager.

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