Legal Services Manager Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
We are looking for a Legal Services Manager who has experience managing teams and enjoys motivating and developing others. This role would be ideally suited to candidates who have managerial experience within a Legal/ Property environment but could also suit individuals from an Operational/ Project background within a professional services company. Do you have the skills and experience to add value to our business? If so, we want to hear from you.
About Us
MOV8 is a cutting-edge legal firm that is disrupting the market through innovation and technology. With over 60 staff working from our Edinburgh Head Office and Glasgow City Centre office, and 5-Star rated customer service, MOV8 aims to be the largest and best private client solicitor and estate agency firm in Scotland by 2025.
MOV8 is a vibrant and exciting company, committed to diversity in the workplace and to making a positive difference in the community around us through our corporate social responsibility program.
The Role
The Legal Services Manager reports to the Director of Risk and Legal Operations and is responsible for ensuring the delivery of Legal Support for MOV8 Real Estate. The role holder will have direct line management responsibility for a large team of Legal Support Assistants (LSAs) and Legal Executives (LEs) who are responsible for the delivery of key legal and administrative processes on behalf of the Case Managers delivering Conveyancing and Private client services.
The Legal Services Manager is responsible for all Legal Support activity including, adherence to process (including Service Level Agreements), managing and mitigating Legal Support Operational Risk, training and development of LSAs and LEs, handling internal service complaints and supporting the wider business in delivery of process and service improvement.
Responsibilities
- Manage the Legal Service team
- Ensuring service standards are met
- Resource/Capacity Planning & Workload Management
- Ensuring sufficient capacity and capability available for completion of the workload
- Supporting Fee Earners
- Supporting Relationship Managers
- Completing status reports on cases introduced on a weekly basis.
- Process and Service Improvement
- Risk Management
Knowledge & Skills
- Leadership capability, motivating, positively influencing and inspiring others to deliver excellent service and service improvements as required
- Excellent prioritisation ability
- Knowledge of conveyancing
- Excellent administrative skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Desire to take and retain ownership of, and to deliver on, a wide range of potential Tasks or Projects
- Calmness under pressure
- Self-learning and a desire continually to acquire knowledge and skills
- Ability to work autonomously with strong, proactive upward management skills
- Ability to deliver results through working with and managing subject matter experts
- Understanding of one’s own strengths and limitations and how to proactively overcome these to deliver results
Remuneration
Starting salary is between £30,000 to £37,750 per annum depending on experience.
Note to Recruitment Agencies
Please note that, as a company, MOV8 Real Estate and Solicitors does not recognise the submission of unsolicited CVs and does not respond to unsolicited communications from recruitment companies. We will only review CVs sent by individual candidates in application for an advertised post.
Any CVs or details submitted by recruitment companies will be viewed as the property of MOV8 Real Estate. We may research, directly contact or engage the candidate directly or through another company, without creating any contract between you or your company and MOV8 Real Estate and Solicitors, without any consideration due to you or your company.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £30,000.00-£37,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Edinburgh: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: One location
