Group Resource Manager

Job description

Group Resource Manager

Location - Any UK Office

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Group Resource Manager this is a newly created role within the Finance & Restructuring team which is part of the Finance & Projects practice group. We are looking for someone to set up and implement a resource management function within the team. This is aimed at supporting partners and senior fee earners in the Finance and Restructuring team by identifying capacity and assisting with effective allocation of resource currently comprising around 122 lawyers across all 8 UK offices.

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

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

• Establish and embed a resource management function with the team including setting up new processes, educating on best practice and managing change.
• To act as trusted advisor to the team in respect of strategic manpower planning and resourcing
• Attend regular operational management meetings/calls, providing management support
• Work closely with our pricing and legal project management teams
• To liaise with partners and senior fee earners to identify and scope future resourcing requirements across the national team
• Optimise the allocation of work and the deployment of staff to maximise profitability by:
• Understanding the capability of lawyers and partners in each office, including their preferences, development needs and objectives. Maintain knowledge of individual skills, development needs, experiences and personal / professional aspirations and apply this knowledge in resourcing decisions
• Ensuring, where appropriate, the use of the Paralegal Centre of Excellence to support the team's work
• Ensuring work is allocated to ensure pockets of high or low utilisation are minimised
• Creating client teams for our major clients
• Ensuring priority is given to high risk / reputational / critical work
• Support the implementation and embedding of ways of working and technology solutions to improve the efficient and effective working of the team, and its profitability
• Support an ethos of service excellence and continuous improvement
• Regular meetings with office leads to discuss workloads, projects and any capacity issues
• Working with Director of Finance and Operations and HR Managers to identify and reduce capacity within the Group
• Resolving resourcing conflicts by being creative and innovative in the use of resource as well as identifying possible issues before they escalate. Challenge requests and deal with potential resource escalations, making decisions on conflicting demands, as required
• Support the lawyer recruitment process by advising on skill gaps and utilisation trends.
• Helping to implement systems and processes for identifying, monitoring and reporting on capacity and utilisation
• Liaise with the Vario- Variable Resource team:
• Assisting with the recruitment, on-boarding process and engagement terms for flexible resource, according to demand
• Being the main point of contact for identifying and deploying available resource at busy times

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 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.

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Qualifications

• Degree educated (preferred)
• A-Level (or equivalent) English

What can we offer you?

• Agile working including 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.

For any queries or for a copy of the full job description, please contact our in-house recruiter, Sarah O'Brien. Please note we only accept CVs that are logged on the Recruitment portal.