Glasgow, hybrid working (3 days a week in the office)
This global professional services firm has a significant legal and consulting capability supporting multinational clients across complex corporate matters and strategic transactions. The Senior Legal Project Manager will be part of a growing legal operations and delivery function, focused on enhancing client service, commercial performance, and project execution across large-scale engagements. The successful applicant will work closely with senior stakeholders to drive legal project management initiatives within legal services.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading complex legal projects – Managing large‑scale corporate and M&A matters from initiation through to completion, ensuring effective coordination, delivery control, and stakeholder communication throughout the transaction lifecycle.
- Developing delivery frameworks – Designing and implementing legal project management methodologies, templates, and governance processes to improve consistency and operational efficiency across engagements.
- Supporting commercial initiatives – Contributing to client proposals, panel pitches, and commercial discussions to support the growth and positioning of the legal practice.
- Driving stakeholder engagement – Working closely with partners, fee earners, clients, and operational teams to support effective project delivery and strengthen adoption of legal project management practices.
- Delivering coaching and oversight – Providing training, mentoring, and performance support to legal teams while promoting best practice across project delivery and client management.
Skills & Attributes
- Legal Project Management expertise – Experienced legal project manager, ideally within corporate and M&A transactions, with an understanding of deal structures and transaction delivery requirements.
- Professional services background – Experience operating within a large professional service, legal, or consulting environment with exposure to complex client‑facing engagements.
- Strong commercial awareness – Ability to support pricing discussions, alternative fee arrangements, and broader commercial strategy within legal or advisory services.
- Advanced stakeholder management – Strong communication and relationship‑building skills with experience engaging senior stakeholders, clients, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Technical and analytical capability – Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for reporting, analysis, presentation development, and delivery of management information.
Applications can only be considered from those eligible to live & work in the UK without restriction.
Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Harcourt Matthews is committed to diversity and inclusion. We value and encourage applications from all ethnicities and welcome everyone regardless of social background, disability, gender identity, and orientation. Diversity benefits us all and challenges our assumptions.
