Junior Project Manager
3 weeks ago
**Cognia Law is recruiting a Junior Project Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a global team driving change in legal services delivery**
**Company Profile**
Cognia seamlessly extends corporates, banks and law firms’ legal capability to deliver sustainable outcomes. Our goal is to connect the legal sector, moving it from a siloed approach to integrated partnerships. We help in-house legal teams by bringing simplicity to complex matters and replacing broken procedures with efficient processes.
Cognia is a Chambers-ranked law company which integrates how legal services are provided so our team, partners, clients and communities thrive together with people at the heart of what we do. We encourage our people to bring their whole self to work and focus on enabling them to realise their full potential.
**Role Description**
Cognia is looking for a project manager to join their team of legal professionals to provide legal process outsourcing (LPO) and legal service outsourcing (LSO) services to Cognia Law’s clients.
This will include providing support - across all Cognia Law’s legal service lines, including contract management accounts/ projects, contract analysis/ summarisation projects, transactional due diligence accounts/ projects, and litigation support accounts/ projects.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
- Confirm resource availability and allocation
- Deliver all projects on-time, within scope and within budget
- Manage changes and approvals in project scope, schedule and costs
- Measure project performance using Cognia’s PMO systems, tools and methods
- Manage team productivity and delivery quality
- Use Cognia tools to monitor working hours, plans and productivity vs planned, to manage the delivery expectations
- Manage all project risks, issues and assumptions to proactively manage anticipated variance to the contracted and committed deliverables.
- Conduct lessons learned and all contracted close out activities
- Manage internal stakeholders, clients, end-clients and other external relationships
- Manage multiple concurrent projects
**Job Requirements**:
- Proven work experience as a Project Manager or Coordinator or similar role
- Experience in project management, from conception to delivery
- Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
- Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
- Articulate and Confident
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- PMP / PRINCE2 certification is a plus
**Additional Beneficial Skills**
- Legal Tech certification (e.g Relativity, Nuix, RAVN, Kira)
- Numeracy skills
- Data Analytics/AI Data Modelling
- Regulatory & Compliance
Honest communication
- Effectively articulates own views and rationale for them
- Communicates complex topics/concepts in simple ways
- Practices active listening
- Where they do not know the answer, they will be open but then take steps to find out and provide an update
Being agile
- Self-starter that is results focused
- Make suggestions for improvement from observations of other areas of the business or from external market
- Quickly understands complex information and applies it to current situations
- Adapts to fast-moving work environment where requirement and deadline frequently change
Bringing the values alive
- Prepares own development plan and takes responsibility for driving it, whilst utilising the resource and opportunities Cognia provides
- Suggests ways to further reinforce the Cognia values
- Highlights if other team members are struggling to balance work and wellbeing.
Building strong relationships
- Takes time to understand team members’ pressures in a wider context
- Publicly acknowledges help from others
- Actively encourages collaboration with others from across the business in projects
- Develops network inside and outside Cognia
Delivering excellence
- Views work as an opportunity to highlight ability and value to Cognia
- Retains focus and delivering best outcome
- Uses own time productively to deliver best outcome
- Delegates effectively but remains accountable for outcome
- Keen to take on tasks that benefit the wider business
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