Global Head of eDiscovery London, England
HSBC
Full Time
London, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
The eDiscovery team sits within the wider Legal Chief Operating Office (COO) and owns all identification and elivery of electronic information for use in Legal cases. It is a key function within the Legal Department and partners with Legal practitioners, Technology experts and firmwide Business teams to deliver its service. This includes:
CONTEXT:
- Becoming the natural partner and first point of contact for all eDiscovery matters with our Legal Department, businesses or other areas of the bank using that service.
- Bringing together and building the future state of the eDiscovery function to help develop it into a best in class service.
- Bringing enhanced transparency on execution progress to all stakeholders, empowering informed and appropriate decisions
- Proactively identifying & managing issues as they arise & de-risking as required
- Encouraging strong and consistent business sponsorship ethos (whether that’s internal or external to Legal)
- Deploying an intelligent and progressive resourcing approach to ensure we have the best resource available (both internal or external) with the appropriate cost discipline being observed. Improving cost efficiency by balancing the reliance on external vendors and internal staff and technology.
- Identifying the right SMEs to fulfil the needs of the business both in terms of content and industry expertise where not internally available
- Driving consistency of eDiscovery Legal Service approach across multiple business areas; remaining cognisant of regional nuances and adopting best practice
- Regularly providing meaningful communications both internally and externally
- Building a central team and network of motivated, skilled and fungible change managers with purpose, desire and ability to add value and deliver effective change
- Relentlessly focus on delivery of business outcomes
Requirements
Essential Qualifications Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience of operating as a leader in the eDiscovery space, understanding the industry, the changing landscape and the future possibilities of the industry.
- Able to build effective senior stakeholder relationships. Confidence to constructively challenge the agenda in order to help the business and technical teams deliver maximum value for each $ invested.
- Outstanding track record for successful delivery change programmes related to eDiscovery
- Highly energetic and resilient individual capable of managing significant budgets to quality, time and scope.
- Strong strategic planning and execution skills, including business case development and benefits realisation.
- Very strong analytical and facilitation skills to ensure business needs and effective solutions can be quickly and clearly defined.
- Strong influencing skills and commercial awareness.
- Proven team building and leadership capabilities operating within a matrix organisation.
- Ability to operate across boundaries of location, business and technical change organisations, with broad infrastructure and business systems knowledge.
- Effective management of dependencies and interactions across associated and complimentary projects.
- Outstanding written/verbal communication and presentation skills
- Good knowledge of Financial Services industry and offerings with a strong passion and understanding of eDiscovery.
- Considers a broader remit of the overall operating model (people, process, location....)
HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:
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Telephone: +44 2078328500
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.
