Legal Practice Manager

Leadership opportunity
- Seeking Team Leader, Team Co-ordinator or HR background
- Join a firm with an excellent culture and strong leadership team

**The Opportunity**:
We are in search of an accomplished and dynamic individual to step into the role of Legal Practice Manager in the Sydney office of a top-tier law firm. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing the operational efficiency of one of the largest practice groups in the firm.

As a Legal Practice Manager, you will spearhead the recruitment and management of support staff, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and consistent services to legal teams and clients. Your focus will extend to fostering the capabilities of the support team, resource management, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Efficiently manage resources, redistributing work and support to ensure administrative capability is maximized and readily available to support the practice group and partners.
- With support from the national recruitment team, recruit support staff throughout the practice group.
- Optimize the contributions of support staff, continuously improving engagement through transparent expectations, regular feedback, and performance evaluations.
- Oversee and uphold the quality and consistency of services provided to the practice group, identifying and advancing opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with commercial finance managers and practice managers to communicate consistent messaging regarding the operational metrics of the group.
- Consult with partners, the Operations Manager, and Facilities to guarantee the practice group has the necessary space allocation and optimizes its use of space.
- Actively engage, participate, and share knowledge with other Practice Managers across the office and nationally.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm and initiative in the workplace, contributing actively to meetings, firm initiatives, projects, learning, and development sessions.
- Ensure compliance with WHS obligations and responsibilities in line with the role's requirements.

**Qualifications, Skills & Experience**:

- Proven experience in leading sizable teams in a legal or professional services firm.
- Demonstrated organizational and time management skills with the ability to maintain meticulous attention to detail and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
- Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated commercial acumen.
- Sound operational management skills.
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) to effectively communicate insights and influence key stakeholders within the business.

If you are a strategic thinker with proven leadership skills and a fervor for driving operational excellence, we encourage you to apply.

Due to the volume of interest only successful applicants will be contacted directly.
- Barratt Galvin is an Australian-based legal recruitment business providing law firm resourcing solutions. Collectively, our consultants have over twenty year’s experience placing legal professionals into law jobs locally and internationally._
- Based in Sydney, we assist legal professionals looking for legal jobs within Australia, as well as those relocating to or returning from London and the Middle East legal markets._
- Our core client base is made up of elite private practice legal teams within mid to top-tier and international law firms. The legal jobs we recruit for include Lawyers, Legal Secretaries, EA/PA, HR, Business Development & Marketing and Office Support._
- As recruitment experts in Australia, London and the Middle East we can assist you with your international or local legal job search. Barratt Galvin is focused on providing you access to legal job opportunities that align with your career goals, at the best possible salary level within the market._