Legal Project Manager in Manchester

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Legal Project Manager to join our Litigation & Dispute Management team. We welcome candidates with relevant experience, business professionals with transferable skills, and individuals at a junior level seeking training and development. This role can be based in our Leeds, Cardiff, Manchester, or Birmingham offices, offering an excellent opportunity to help shape and advance the firm’s legal project management approach within a leading national practice.

Working closely with lawyers on complex, high-value disputes, you will play a key role in developing and embedding project management programmes, tools, and methodologies that support both the practice group and our clients’ needs. You will join a collaborative Legal Project Management and legal tech team alongside a Senior Legal Project Manager, giving you meaningful scope to influence how the function evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting in the development of project management tools, methodologies, resources, and technologies
• Supporting lawyers in the effective use of legal project management tools and technologies
• Building and strengthening client relationships
• Creating matter plans, budgets, workflows, timelines, defining scope, assumptions, and prices for large/complex disputes
• Proactively managing changes in scope, identifying risks, and developing contingencies
• Working with the Finance team to produce financial progress reports, analysing work in progress across multiple workstreams, identifying out-of-scope actions, and revising scope where required
• Preparing detailed and accurate fee reports
• Identifying opportunities to improve process, policy, and procedure
• Supporting the growth of the legal project management function through internal and external business development activity, such as pitches and client proposals
• Identifying opportunities to drive efficiencies and profitability across the Litigation & Dispute Management practice group
• Staying informed about developments in legal project management, including emerging tools, technologies, and best-practice approaches, to support continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience

We are looking for:

• Experience managing projects in a legal environment, either as a project manager, business professional, or lawyer with project delivery responsibilities
• Demonstrable experience using project management tools and technology
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build rapport with and influence a wide range of stakeholders
• Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to manage conflicting deadlines and work across multiple workstreams

What’s in it for you?

At Eversheds Sutherland, we provide benefits focused on looking after you: your development, your performance, your financial future and your health, as well as providing the opportunity to make a contribution to the world.

• We’re fair, transparent and equitable
• We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance
• We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working
• We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support
• We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion
• We provide a platform for your career, whatever your ambitions through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programs
• We provide experience and opportunity through international and cross-function exposure
• We provide an opportunity to give back through our pro bono work and community engagement
• We help you plan ahead through retirement planning, insurance and assurance

Diversity & Inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, “Inclusive” is a core business value. We bring together different skillsets, global mindsets and approaches. We foster diversity of thought and the freedom to put ideas into action. We have an inherent respect for the individual. We have a strong belief in collaboration and teamwork. Sharing ideas, asking questions, solving challenges and meeting our clients’ goals: together.

We want all our people to thrive at work and reach their full potential and we work hard to continue to build a diverse and inclusive culture, monitor and report on our progress and impact, and develop our approach. This is reflected in our policies, systems and processes, and in our work with diversity membership organisations.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we are open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements. If this is important to you, please talk to us about it during the recruitment process.

We want you to perform at your best during our recruitment process. If there is any adjustment or support you need, please contact us so we can discuss how we can best assist you.