Senior Specialist, Property Development

Job description

Senior Specialist, Property Development

Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds or Manchester (3 days per week in the office)

Salary range starting at £45,000 a year

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 Senior Specialist to support our MLS Delivery teams in ensuring that we are delivering a world class legal service to our practice groups and external clients. Reporting to our Senior Deliver Manager, the successful candidate will:

• Lead on delivery of large projects and complex matters in collaboration with Legal Project Managers and/or matter partners
• Act as a subject matter expert in their field, advising fellow team members on work products and delivering the most technically complex work
• Engage with lawyers and/or clients where appropriate regarding the delivery of work, agreeing structured ways of working to manage expectations
• Work with Vario Practice Development Manager to develop and deliver technical training on relevant issues
• Mentor less experienced members of the team
• Support scoping and solution design of working winning activities
• As a subject matter expert, you will work on a range of Property Development work types, collaborating with team members and taking the lead in managing the delivery of Property Development work to lawyers and clients

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:

• Significant experience of working on Property Development work types
• Broad experience of working in a large, commercial law firm
• Understanding of levels of service and capabilities required in alternative delivery models
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

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.

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, Victoria Greaves, 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 Victoria by emailing [email protected]

#LI-VG1We are recruiting a Senior Specialist to support our MLS Delivery teams in ensuring that we are delivering a world class legal service to our practice groups and external clients.