Job Description

SENIOR LEGAL PROJECT MANAGER

Sydney, Melbourne or Perth (3 days per week in the office)

Salary range starting at $180,000 a year (plus superannuation)

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 sits within our Legal Project Management ('LPM') team.

The Legal Project Management team consists of 20 colleagues, split across London, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Australia and Dubai. This role is an exciting opportunity to continue development of the team's presence locally alongside an LPM Analyst, for which the successful candidate will take line management responsibility. Daily responsibilities include:

Communicating the LPM proposition at appropriate forums
Building an effective network and pipeline of matters
Working with legal teams to identify and implement new solutions
Strategic delivery of multiple projects/legal matters
Defining and validating scope of projects
Time and budget management
Creating project plans, schedules and action trackers
RAID management and providing options for mitigation or resolution
Applying lean principles and business process mapping to create efficiencies
Stakeholder management including kick off meetings and steering meetings
Supporting bids and tender programmes


We are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

Experience of managing multi-workstream project teams
Experience of pitching and bidding for new opportunities
Experience of working in a client-facing project management role, ideally in a global legal/professional services business
Excellent stakeholder management skills
Experience of project delivery in Disputes or e-Discovery would be beneficial


What Can We Offer You

Agile working (the opportunity to work from home twice a week, subject to diary commitments)
Bonus scheme
Life assurance
Salary continuance insurance
20 days’ annual leave


What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

Our in-house recruiter, Bhavika Upton, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Bhavika by emailing [email protected]

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