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Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.\nWe look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.\nOurs is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.\nWe respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.\nThis role is based at our London office with a hybrid working model.\n Your role\nAll aspects of project management and the project management lifecycle:\nEnsure project requirements are clearly understood and aligned with project objectives\n\nEstablish the project organisation, provide leadership and develop a team to achieve the objectives\n\nFacilitate the selection of project suppliers/resources\n\nResponsible for ensuring compliance to firm’s project process\n\n1st point of escalation ad resolution for all project related risk/issues deriving from the project team, escalating to Head of Project Management as required\n\nLine management of resources in a project context (internal and external) ensuring performance, project updates, project health is managed in accordance with the Firms project process and professional standards\n\n1st point review and or creation for all project related documentation, Business Cases/PIDs/Reports/Change etc\n\nResponsible for overseeing the project budget, including spend to date, forecast to close, FY accounting and changes\n\nRisk & Issue management, ability to find, plan and take mitigating actions against project threats and resolve problems in a dynamic and collaborative way\n\nRealistic planning; ability to apply project rationale and pragmatism to project plans (quality, budgets, schedules)\n\nResource planning, forecasting and estimating of effort required from others to meet your project objectives\n\nStakeholder management; keeping others included, supported and involved at all levels\n\nStrong leadership with a passion and drive to meet project time, cost and quality constraints and when challenged seeks trade offs and alternatives to ensure project success\n\nA hard working, supportive and collaborative work ethic which sets an example to others\n\nAbout you\nTraining and experience\nExperience working within a project environment\n\nPRINCE 2 Practitioner or APM equivalent\n\nBudget control in a project environment\n\nLeadership\nSupportive and collaborative project team leader\n\nAble to guide direction and make decisions\n\nSuccess and results-oriented\n\nStrong accountability\n\nFlexible and able to cope with changing priorities\n\nCan work under pressure and remain calm in such situations\n\nInclusive style and a good communicator at all levels\n\nStyle\nTeam player, and sensitive to team dynamics\n\nClear thinking and tenacious in achieving goals\n\nNot easily diverted or distracted\n\nAbility to provide sound advice under pressure\n\nGood attention to detail and clarity of presentation (options, issues)\n\nProactive - driving progress via self and others\n\nOur Benefits\nJoining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:\nHealth & Wellbeing\nPrivate Medical Insurance\n\nFree in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships\n\nFree onsite GP service and periodic health assessments\n\nFinance\nPension and flexible savings options\n\nIncome protection and life assurance\n\nMortgage advice and will-writing services\n\nFamily & Lifestyle\nElectric car and cycle to work schemes\n\nEmergency family care\n\nAdditional holiday/birthday leave\n\nMaternity/paternity/sharedparental leave\n\nTravel insurance and season ticket loan\n\nOption to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)\n\nTechnical Skills\nBudget Management, Communication Plan Development, Communication Strategy Development, Cost Management, Dependency Management, Plan Management, Project/Initiative Benefits Management, Project Management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Schedule Management, Stakeholder Management, Vendor ManagementThis list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. 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