Legal Resource Manager We’re seeking a Legal Resource Manager with excellent stakeholder management skills, who can influence senior decision makers at a highly regarded UK law firm to drive a structured approach to managing fee earners across teams and locations, supporting diversity and inclusion, and enhancing people performance and development. Salary to £90,000 fantastic employee benefits Hybrid working – 3 days in the office / 2 days WFH City Location Key Responsibilities of the Legal Resource Manager: Be the business services lead for allocating work throughout the allocated teams and make sure there is a fair and equal access to work for fee earners. Improve career development by giving employees access to a wider variety of work which matches their development needs and aspirations. Develop excellent working and trusted relationships with Partners at the firm to gain a deep understanding on their practice, pressure points, and resourcing needs. Build a Resource Management presence in key team meetings and Partners’ meetings, as necessary. Review utilisation and overall hours / stats on a daily-weekly basis; flagging areas of concern to the Teams’ partners by way of providing weekly utilisation and projected capacity reports. Understand / map the skills in the team and proactively monitor, remind, and chase fee earners to update their capacity forecast on a weekly basis. Liaise with trainee supervisors to monitor trainee performance and allocate appropriate range of work. Keep track of holidays and mapping holidays to utilisation to pro-actively recommend work re-allocation solutions ahead of time. Skills & Requirements of the Legal Resource Manager: Qualified lawyer or other professional with a law degree or relevant experience within a law firm / Resource management background. Strong commercial acumen and business awareness. Able to drive change and transformation; comfortable with ambiguity. Persuasive and able to influence senior decision makers. Experience working with resource management software would be advantageous.