Group Resource Manager

at  Pinsent Masons

CANDIDATE OVERVIEW

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

• To act as trusted advisor to the team in respect of strategic manpower planning and resourcing
• Establish and embed a resource management function with the further two remaining teams including setting up new processes, educating on best practice and managing change.
• 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
• Working with Director of Finance and Operations and HR Manager 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

QUALIFICATIONS

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

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 to identify capacity and assist with effective allocation of resource across a national team currently comprising around 200 lawyers operating across 8 offices. We will also be looking for someone to set up and implement a resource management functionality within the two other remaining teams within Property Group (the Planning & Environment team and the Dispute Resolution team).
Standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.