Job Description

What’s in it for you?

- Take ownership of the systems and processes underpinning an in-house Legal function
- Work directly with senior legal and corporate leadership
- Opportunity to build, streamline and automate legal operations from the ground up

About your new employer:

- Join a growing, commercially focuses organisation based in Norwest
- Work within a lean and team-oriented legal and corporate development function
- Be part of a business undergoing continued growth, transformation and operational improvement

About the role:

- 4-5 days in office
- Build and improve legal workflows, matter-management processes and reporting
- Maintain matter and contract registers, templates, precedents and legal records
- Manage external counsel engagement, panel information, rates and administration
- Oversee legal invoices, purchase orders, accruals, budgets and cost tracking
- Support legal technology, contract-management and document-management systems
- Coordinate key legal deadlines, approvals, reporting cycles and team administration
- Provide executive support to the Chief Legal Officer across meetings, travel, board papers and general administration

The ideal candidate:

- Experience in legal operations, professional services operations, legal project management or a comparable corporate support role
- Experience improving workflows, registers, templates, precedents and document-management processes
- Strong finance administration experience across invoices, budgets,



accruals and external providers
- Advanced Microsoft 365 skills and familiarity with legal or contract-management systems
- Strong organization, attention to detail and reporting capability
- Confident working with senior stakeholders, lawyers, Finance and external providers
- Commercially minded, adaptable and comfortable working in a lean environment
- Legal qualifications and admission are not required, as this role does not provide legal advice

If this role does not align to your experience and/or career goals, please contact us to discuss other suitable opportunities.

Why work with us?

- We have access to 50% more roles than are publicly available.
- You will receive free CV and content advice as well as interview preparation assistance specific to the role.
- We are intimately aware of market trends including team/firmwide inside information and what salary you can achieve in the current market.
- Naiman Clarke are celebrating 25 years of excellence in the legal recruitment industry this year. Our team of experienced, legally trained, consultants have over 40 years of combined experience working exclusively in the legal recruitment sector.

Contact Elvira today!

Please quote reference number EN/59920

- Call or text: 0480 042 586
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-naiman/

Alternatively, click apply and email your resume (in Word version only) and academic transcript.

📌 Legal Operations Manager (Norwest)
🏢 Naiman Clarke
📍 Norwest