Legal Project Manager - AVP FTC

Are you interested in driving value and efficiency in legal operations? Barclays is seeking a Legal Project Manager to join our Legal COO, Legal Supplier Management team. In this pivotal role, you’ll manage a portfolio of complex legal matters, working closely with law firms, internal legal teams, Finance, and Technology. You will deliver end-to-end project management for high-value legal matters, from scoping and planning to cost monitoring and milestone tracking.

This role also involves advising internal counsel and stakeholders on best practices, innovative pricing models, and alternative resourcing. Other role responsibilities include, implementing LPM best practices, ensuring adherence across major matters and driving process improvements, champion new technologies across the Legal function.

To be successful as a Legal Project Manager - AVP, you should have:

• Proven experience in legal project management or a similar role
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to innovate, solve complex problems, and drive continuous improvement
• Experience with legal operations, cost control, and technology implementation is a plus

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role can be based in Glasgow or London.

Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus.

• Scope Management:
  Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Strategic Focus:
  Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
• Time Horizon:
  Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
• Stakeholder Management:
  Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
• Risk and Issue Management:
  Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
• Resource Management:
  Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
• Financial Management:
  Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
• Metrics:
  Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
• Change Management:
  Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to…