Project Executive - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland
Eversheds Sutherland
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Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description
Region 1- EMEA

  • Practice group 1
  • International Operations


  • Office 1

  • Cardiff


  • Position type 1

  • Fixed Term


  • Summary

  • We are Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm, with 5,000+ colleagues in more than 30 countries. We're full‐service with deep niche and sector experience. Whatever challenge, wherever in the world, we're equipped and ready to meet it. We live our values, we're purposeful and purposeled. So although the world is fastmoving and rapidly changing, we see it as a place where everyone can thrive. We're ambitious for our clients, our communities and for you. Whether you're starting out on your career or well established, whether you're a lawyer or in business services. If you're looking for what's next, we are too.
What to expect

For business professionals, our environment is highly collaborative with value being placed on diversity of ideas, skills and mindsets. Not least yours. It's energetic, fast-moving and there's always something new to get involved in. You will get exposure across geographies and the firm as a whole. The future is a place of opportunity. Focusing on your success and for what's next, will ensure you thrive too.


Our team


The Eversheds Sutherland International Onboarding Team work with senior in-house legal teams and stakeholders to optimise the delivery of complex international legal services and data analytics to maximise efficiency.

We invest at the outset of every relationship a dedicated point of contact to identify objectives, to understand your business and its key commercial drivers to improve efficiency and performance.


Our team lead on the onboarding process to help win new global clients with the most complex legal and billing requirements.

We are recognised for building strong relationships with Client Partner and Client Service Teams to help manage global clients to understand their key objectives and potential pressure points.

Our focus is on problem solving, process efficiencies and value add for each client to ensure strategic business objectives are delivered.

The team project manage the onboarding process as well as implement change and best practises across the whole Eversheds Sutherland International network and Relations.


Role and key responsibilities


We are looking for a confident, collaborative and commercially driven Project Executive to assist Eversheds Sutherland Project Managers in working with senior in-house legal teams and stakeholders to optimise the delivery of complex international legal services.

Eversheds Sutherland invests at the outset of every relationship a dedicated point of contact to; identify our client's key strategic objectives, understand our client's business operations and support our client's key commercial drivers to improve efficiency and performance.


Skills and experience
The role of the Project Executive involves, but is not limited to:

  • To assist in the coordination, delivery and review of client onboarding and projects;
  • Create and shape the client onboarding strategy and present it to all stakeholders;
  • Assist in the coordination and delegation of instruction intake;
  • Work collaboratively with all stakeholders in the delivery of crossborder/multijurisdictional projects;
  • To prepare and present key management reports;
  • Assist in the management of key legal technologies which support client service delivery;
  • Develop internal relationships across all legal functions (i.e. billing teams, credit control, marketing); and

Additional:


  • Assist in the coordination, delivery and review of adhoc projects;
  • Travel (where required) to other offices/client locations; and
  • Positively contribute to the growth and image of the Project Management team internally.

Desirable Criteria:


  • Graduate within Business (or similar discipline) and/or relevant industry experience operating in multijurisdictional settings;
  • Industry experience (Legal and/or Project Management);
  • Leadership experience

What's in it for you?


At Eversheds Sutherland, we provide benefits focused on looking after you: your development, your performance, your financial future and your health, as well as providing the opportunity to make a contribution to the world.


  • We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance
  • We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working
  • We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support
  • We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion
  • We provide a platform for your career, whatever your ambitions through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programs
  • We provide experience and opportunity through international and crossfunction exposure
  • We provide an op
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