Legal Service Desk Project Manager

Job Title: Legal Service Desk Project Manager
Location: London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
Day Rate: £490 - £510 (Outside IR35)
Job Type: Six Month Contract

We are seeking an experienced Service Desk Project Manager with proven Legal Services industry experience to lead and deliver IT Service Desk initiatives within a complex, regulated environment. This role is critical to ensuring effective service delivery, strong governance, and successful collaboration across internal teams and outsourced global service providers.

The successful candidate will bring strong project management capability, deep understanding of IT service desk operations, and hands‑on experience working within legal‑sector IT environments, where compliance, data security, and service reliability are paramount.

• Lead and manage Service Desk-related projects from initiation through to delivery and transition into BAU
• Own project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, and documentation, ensuring alignment with governance and legal‑sector compliance requirements
• Maintain commercial control and governance, including budget management, forecasting, and change control
• Oversee the full project lifecycle, ensuring effective planning, execution, and reporting
• Act as a primary point of contact for business and technical stakeholders, ensuring clear and consistent communication
• Manage and coordinate outsourced and third‑party global service providers
• Ensure IT applications and services meet agreed SLAs and support business‑critical legal operations
• Drive continuous service improvement across service desk processes and tooling
• Develop, lead, and support the Service Desk team, including training, mentoring, and performance management

• Mandatory experience within the Legal Services industry (law firms, legal organisations, or legal technology environments)
• Proven experience as a Service Desk Project Manager or in a similar IT service delivery role
• Strong understanding of IT Service Desk operations, ITIL‑aligned environments, and regulated support models
• Demonstrable experience managing outsourced and third‑party global service providers
• Strong project management expertise covering scope, budget, risk, and change management
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical audiences

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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