Group Resource Manager

at  Pinsent Masons

CANDIDATE OVERVIEW

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

• Extensive experience in resource management or workforce planning, ideally in a professional service / partnership environment.
• Ability to establish and embed a resource management function with the team, including setting up new processes, educating on best practice and managing change.
• Proven experience resolving resourcing conflicts by being creative and innovative in the use of resource as well as identifying possible issues before they escalate.
• Excellent stakeholder managements skills, with the ability to influence and push back where needed, with senior members of the firm

Highly IT literate with good knowledge of Microsoft Office products, especially PowerPoint, Excel and a willingness to learn more. Knowledge of Power BI would be an advantage.
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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 which is a newly created role within the Finance & Restructuring team, 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. Please note this is NOT a Recruitment role.
This role will ideally be based out of either our London, Edinburgh or Manchester offices but can be based at any of our UK offices for the right candidate. Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.