Innovation Manager

A leading law firm is looking to hire a proactive and highly collaborative innovation manager for a permanent, full-time position. A minimum of 3 years’ PQE is required for this role (UK Real Estate x 1 and Corporate Commercial x 1). You will be embedded in the appropriate practice group so legal practice experience is essential. This is a new role and will have a big impact on the next phase of the firm’s innovation and AI strategy. The main purpose is to drive the successful adoption of new legal technology tools and AI to transform the way legal services are delivered.

Main Responsibilities:

• Owning the end-to-end lifecycle of approved ideas, from initial conception through to measurable impact and delivery, with robust stakeholder management.
• Evaluating ideas and gathering requirements, assessing for strong alignment to both firmwide and Divisional objectives, as well as identifying how success can be tracked and measured.
• Collaborating with colleagues in Knowledge Management and divisionally aligned roles, to ensure a coordinated, balanced pipeline of opportunities and prioritisation of resource.
• Participating in relevant innovation events, workshops, etc.
• Collaborating with relevant stakeholders in Business Support roles, to share best practices and drive cross-functional innovation through collaboration and process alignment.
• Working closely with Head of Legal AI to ensure successful implementation and adoption of GenAI tools and solutions, from prompting templates and workflow design to Agentic solutions.
• Assisting Legal Design and Engineering with initiatives to (re)design, document, and build against agreed best practice.
• Monitoring progress and reporting on key innovation metrics, ensuring transparency and accountability for delivering strong outcomes.

Main experience and skills required:

• A solid understanding and grasp of GenAI and its applicable capabilities/potentials, with some practical experience in harnessing for value.
• Experience of identifying and effectively implementing improvements into practice.
• Change management/process improvement experience.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• A passion for innovation and experience of driving engagement and adoption.

To be successful in this role you need to be adaptable and comfortable managing change and ambiguity. It is also essential that you are highly collaborative with strong interpersonal skills.

This is an exciting role that offers a competitive salary and plenty of opportunity to progress.

Location: Birmingham/Manchester/Leeds/London

If you are interested in finding out more about this role and believe you are a good fit, please don’t hesitate in sending your CV to Jane Eren.

Please note that where a level of preferred experience or qualification is indicated, this is a guideline only and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

Our consultants will review your application and assess your suitability. We endeavour to respond to all applications within 72 hours, however due to the volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to every candidate individually and would advise that if you do not hear from us you should assume you are not successful in your application.

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