Practice Manager

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Job Title

Practice Manager

Office Location

Riyadh

Department

The Practice Manager will work closely with the M&BD Director - EMEA as well as with the Partners in Riyadh and Dubai. They will also support the wider Middle East Practice Group (MEPG) including lawyers and M&BD team members who have a focus on the Middle East. They will manage the delivery of projects and goals identified in both the Middle East business plan, EMEA business plan and in line with the firm’s global strategic goals.

Role

They will play a critical role in supporting new business and client development in addition to profile raising initiatives in the Middle East and international markets to ensure we:

• Deliver on the objectives laid out in the business plans;
• Maximise our opportunities to grow our revenues from existing and prospective clients across the practice;
• Raise the firm’s profile and position of these key markets; and leverage and coordinate our people, knowledge and resources in an effective and efficient manner.
  
  

Working Hours

Sunday to Thursday, 42.5 hours per week. Additional hours maybe required.

Key Responsibilities

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible

Business program.

• Strategy and business planning - Working with the Partners and M&BD Director – EMEA to help execute the business plan to support the Riyadh office vision and strategy. Developing and implementing specific programs to achieve operational goals, innovation, and best practice.
• Financial management – Working closely with the Partners to ensure that the financial performance of the practice remains on track; working with the Finance department and pricing team, and Legal Project Management to ensure there is regular monitoring, consultation, and action in relation to all aspects of financial management, including managing capacity and shape, and improving profitability.
• Staffing and workload allocation – Assist in implementing systems to accurately assess workloads and lawyer availability, oversee the assignment allocation process, address staffing issues, manage lawyer performance and productivity issues, coordinate staffing efforts across offices.
• Office administration – Developing and managing the operational calendar for the Riyadh office setting agendas, facilitating meetings, tracking progress against agreed actions and priorities.
• Communications - Ensuring developments and progress against office priorities are communicated internally, co-ordinating with the internal comms team as needed and that mechanisms are in place to encourage and address feedback.
• Market awareness - Having a detailed understanding of relevant market drivers, in the legal sector and in the markets and sectors in which the practice operates.
• Joining the dots between the Business Team supporting the office – ensuring that the global strategy for the Riyadh office is reflected in all approaches to managing people, delivering value and efficiencies to clients, and leveraging knowledge and technology.
  
  

Skills & Experience

General Attributes

Practical experience/knowledge

• Prior experience (five years) in a professional services environment
• Prior law firm experience
• Understanding of the legal sector, legal products and drivers of the practice
  
  

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to build strong relationships and networks
• Ability to influence across business functions without direct management responsibility
• IT literate - especially Excel and PowerPoint.
  
  

General attributes

• Gravitas and credibility, instils trust
• Discreet and with the utmost integrity
• Collaborative, with excellent interpersonal skills and rapport-building;
• Strong project management and co-ordination skills; able to work effectively with different disciplines
• Team worker and networker comfortable in building relationships across the globe
• Robust, flexible and good under pressure
• Challenges the status quo
• Takes initiative and self-motivated
• Focused, decisive, logical, and organised
• Analytical and strategic
• Creative/lateral thinker
• Practical, pragmatic and commercial.
  
  

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