Project Manager, Technology Implementation (Consultant) – Legal UK

Location: London, hybrid working

Duration: Fixed term contract (potential to convert to permanent)

Start: ASAP

At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are ‘problem solvers’ who call on our collective experience, knowledge and skills to support customers to access benefits early. Our mission is to create environments that thrive for our customers; we enable this by providing transformation, process optimisation, and automation services, all with the aim of enabling our customers to harness human autonomy. We are reimagining how transformation services are delivered, taking a human-centred approach, and our work is having a material impact on people’s lives. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you.

Role: As a Project Manager specialising in technology implementation, you will work across a broad range of technical projects within the legal sector. You will work with international law firms who are looking to adopt new technologies, delivering complex, multi-faceted technical engagements.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of technology implementation projects for legal clients, from initial scoping and requirements gathering to deployment and post-implementation review.
• Deliver projects across diverse technology portfolios, including, but not limited to, legal practice management systems, document automation, e-discovery, contract lifecycle management (CLM), knowledge management, and enterprise legal management (ELM) solutions.
• Collaborate with legal, IT, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into clear project deliverables.
• Facilitate regular status meetings, ensuring clear communication on project progress, risks, and milestones.
• Support clients with change management strategies to drive user adoption.

The successful Project Manager will be able to demonstrate:

• Proven track record of leading technology implementation projects, ideally within legal or professional services environments.
• Ideally, you will have led several projects from start to finish.
• Experience in legal-specific tools such as Document Management Systems (DMS), E-discovery, contract & matter management or AI-powered legal technology would be advantageous.
• Strong experience with project management frameworks (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid).
• Proficiency with PM tools: MS Project, Jira, Asana, or equivalent.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with senior-level stakeholders across the business, IT and partnership.

What’s in it for you?

• An opportunity to join a high-growth, scale-up consulting firm; we see an opportunity to make a material difference to how clients are served, and are on a mission to create environments that thrive for our clients.
• A dedicated focus on your individual personal development: managed through annual performance appraisals, individual personal development plans, and our bi-weekly ‘continuous conversations’ programme.
• Additional professional development is available through a personal training budget (subject to approval of a relevant business case).
• A competitive salary of up to £80,000 plus additional benefits including: 25 days’ annual leave, plus an additional day’s leave for your birthday.
• Annual leave purchase: buy up to 10 additional days of leave per annum.
• Reservist leave: up to 10 days of paid leave to fulfil reservist commitments.
• Save 30-60% on an electric car through The Electric Car Scheme.
• Additional benefits if converted to a permanent position.

Your Pace team: Harnessing Human Autonomy is putting the needs of humans above all in process and system design. We are a consultancy that helps organisations become aware of the human needs and behaviours within their operations, so that systems and processes can be designed and implemented to match. We automate the basics and empower the human to achieve more in the beckoning age of AI and automation. The results are a more engaged, agile and motivated workforce capable of greater efficiency and innovation.

Imagine If… you worked for a business that has integrity at its core, one that truly cares about its People, Corporate Social Responsibility and delivering real value to its customers. At Pace, we recognise that we are only as good as our people. Apply today to find out about the great things we’re achieving together and the fun we have as a team.