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 MLS team.
As the Vario team grows, we are recruiting a Delivery Manager on a 10-month fixed term contract to support our MLS Delivery teams in ensuring that we are delivering a world class legal service to our practice groups and external clients. The role will support our engagement strategies with both sectors and groups and focus on the pastoral care and development of our legal delivery teams and their capabilities. The successful candidate will:
Line manage a team of paralegals focused on delivery of work to both lawyers and external clients. This will include day to day supervision, training & development, and management of direct reports
Supervise the delivery of legal services to end users
Service delivery management support on engagements as required. This includes resource planning, quality assurance, output/efficiency reviews and progress reporting
Continually develop delivery models to ensure best in class service
Develop effective working relationships across relevant practice groups and sectors
Work with Resource Management to effectively manage the allocation of work, and monitor/manage capacity and workload levels
Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.
Please note, this role will sit within our Disputes team.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
Experience of working on disputes related matter types
Alternative legal services experience
Demonstrable experience of managing a high performing team of legal professionals
Experience in managing the delivery of legal services in a high volume, multi-location environment
Experience of influencing stakeholders in a large commercial law firm to promote the benefits of utilising alternative service delivery models
Significant experience of working with performance metrics to ensure best in class service delivery
What can we offer you?
Tailored career development and support within our award-winning team
Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days
Contributory pension of up to 5%
Private healthcare policy
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
