Our client is a leading global law firm, highly recognised for their Corporate and Disputes work, and are now looking for a collaborative and solution-focused Resource Management Senior Advisor – Work Allocation to join their busy London offices on a permanent basis.
The Resource Management Senior Advisor – Work Allocation will play an important role in supporting the business with their legal staffing, work allocation, and utilisation. KEY DUTIES INCLUDE: Responsible for providing recommendations to the Practice Heads for resource allocations and utilisations and ensuring those recommendations are consistent with information barriers. Build and maintain strong and trusted relationships with partners, associates, trainees, and professional staff. Identify with and understand the needs of lawyers across the practice and work with Practice Heads to resolve fee earner needs/issues and ensure they have the available resources. Responsible for the analysis and communication of fee earner capacity surveys. Track, identify, and challenge any discrepancies in forecasted activities against recorded time. Assist with resource allocations and workload management for fee earners. Align fee earners’ interests, objectives, and career development to new matters, wherever possible, whilst ensuring client needs are met. Analyze and monitor monthly billed and unbilled time to assist with work allocation and future planning. Responsible for analyzing overall fee earner time performance for preparation of monthly reporting to the Management Committee. Share knowledge and contribute to performance and talent mapping discussions with HR. The Resource Management Senior Advisor – Work Allocation will have prior experience in resource management and workforce planning, ideally within a law firm or large corporate environment. It is essential to demonstrate the ability to be a trusted advisor who provides balanced, pragmatic advice around manpower planning and resource management to the business. Possessing outstanding stakeholder engagement skills at all levels and the ability to build relationships quickly and easily gain credibility will be key. The right candidate will be an effective team player with excellent attention to detail, strong communication & interpersonal skills, and be proficient in Microsoft applications. The ideal candidate will be a positive, adaptable & confident professional.
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