project manager Birmingham, England
Job description
VARIO PROJECT MANAGER
Role Overview
Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role can be based in our Birmingham office or our Manchester office.
We are recruiting our first Project Manager to support our growth. The team is spread between Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. Successful applicants will be rewarded with a varied role at the cutting-edge of change in the legal sector and a chance to be involved in the growth and development of a thriving business.
Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests. We operate an agile/hybrid working model and we typically work in the office three days per week.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
- Comprehensive track record of enterprise-wide project implementations with a business focus, experience of a broad range of project delivery techniques including Agile methodology and change management techniques.
- Experience managing, leading, and inspiring project team members in a project delivery model where there is no direct line management responsibility.
- Experience of following project delivery best practices, policies, procedures and processes with ability to adapt them as appropriate to meet the specific needs of the project.
- Experience in procurement process, selection and engagement of third-party providers and ongoing relationship management of third-party implementation partner and/or solution provider.
- Good understanding of strategic themes, epics, features, product management and product ownership techniques and principles.
- Legal sector or professional services experience gained in an international firm.
What can we offer you?
- Agile working i.e. the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments.
- 25 days annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
- Contributory pension of up to 5%.
- Private healthcare policy for the successful candidate and immediate family.
- Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
- Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
- Cycle to work scheme.
At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. If reasonable adjustments would improve your candidate experience, please reach out to [email protected] and we’d be happy to help.
For any queries or for a copy of the full job description, please contact our in-house recruiter, Bhavika Upton. Please note we only accept CVs that are logged on the Recruitment portal.
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