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Job ref allhires618 Salary band £50k - £75k Salary details unknown Location London, City, West London Job type Permanent Experience PQE 4, PQE 5, PQE 6-9, PQE 10+ Job Sector Any Company DAC Beachcroft LLP Contact unknown Practice areas Commercial Professional levels Head of Legal, Practice Manager/Office Manager, Legal HR Posted 14/02/2012 Expires 09/03/2012

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Job Description

The firm

DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate.

We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clients expectations.

Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012, recognised 121 of our partners and professionals as leading lawyers and we hold with 84 rankings in 34 separate practice areas, 20 of which are number one rankings.

In 2009 we achieved certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and in 2011 we were awarded ISO27001 certification for our information security procedures. We are the largest law firm in the country to obtain a silver Investors in People award. The firm is committed to supporting the communities in which we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and via structured programmes including those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust.

For further details on our work and our culture, please visit (web address removed)

The department

The Practice Group Manager will be responsible for the Corporate Commercial and Employment & Pensions groups. The post holder will report to the Practice Group Head within the Groups, with a dotted line to the Chief Operating Officer.  Regular attendance at Executive meetings will be required.

Working at the heart of the practice groups, the role will provide support and guidance to the Practice Group Heads, recognising the many demands of their time and alleviating the pressure by taking work "off their desks"; to ensure smooth delivery and alignment with practice group and the firm's strategic objectives.

Core responsibilities

Support the Practice Group Heads in the setting of annual cost/ revenue budgets and work in partnership with them to ensure delivery of gross profit margin as well as meeting practice group targets for billing, chargeable hours, realisation and level of Work in Progress (WIP) and debtor days. Provide business analysis and benchmarking of the practice's performance against its peers and competitors.

Taking accountability for the progression, management and execution of new initiatives generated at Practice Head level, co-ordinating and managing Business Services input and practice group performance. Assist with the succession and promotion processes liaising closely with the HR Business Manager for the Practice and the Finance department.

Providing support to the Practice Group Heads through the provision of reporting, process reviews and procurement (and co-ordination as appropriate) of services from Business Services enabling them to focus on their role as business leaders.

Working alongside the Business Services Departmental and Practice Group Heads to ensure effective delivery of structural and cultural change within the firm through the use of appropriate vehicles.

Key skills

• Significant experience of multi-disciplinary senior operational management (5+ years) within a professional services environment knowledge of the legal sector an asset.
• Strong academic background. Educated to degree level with a professional qualification (e.g. MBA) or professional membership.
• Significant strategic, structural and cultural change management experience, demonstrable through successful implementation and delivery within a commercial environment. Autonomous ownership of success within the area of change delivery is essential.
• Exceptional commercial acumen and strong understanding/ experience of finance and fiscal management and familiarity with commercial KPI's and SLA's is of great importance.
• Exposure to and good understanding of Human Resources, Technology, IT strategy, integration, Business and Corporate Development.
• Demonstrable success in the area of process review and development, reporting and budgetary/ cost control.
• Highly adaptable, strong influencer of people with tenacity, credibility and excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Highly developed people management skills with the ability to motivate and inspire trust at all levels.
• Will need to be flexible in terms of travel.

DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV via our online application system. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.