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About the Role
This role will provide parental leave cover for a senior leader within CRUK's Legal team, offering expert strategic and legal leadership. You will drive high-quality legal service delivery and contribute to a period of transformation, leveraging dedicated legal operations capabilities and pioneering the use of gen AI and AI for legal processes. This is a highly impactful role where you will empower teams, gain broad exposure to internal operations, deliver real impact, and help shape the future of Legal at CRUK.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and inspire the service delivery team, providing line management, coaching, performance management, and professional development support.
- Effectively manage resourcing and work allocation for all transactional matters, ensuring timely completion.
- Lead strategic legal activity within the designated area, providing specialist oversight and quality assurance.
- Develop and present innovative, feasible solutions to complex legal challenges.
- Maintain strategic oversight of business partnering relationships, delegating responsibilities appropriately while ensuring service quality.
- Support the design of and ensure delivery against team SLAs and KPIs.
- Develop strong GenAI legal capability and contribute to training and knowledge-sharing on GenAI.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor, barrister, or equivalent with significant post-qualification experience in-house and/or private practice.
- Strong track record of delivering high-quality, efficient, and client-focused legal services.
- Demonstrable experience designing, improving, or overseeing legal service delivery models, processes, triage systems, and operational performance.
- Ability to develop innovative, pragmatic solutions to complex legal and organisational challenges.
- Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience managing external legal providers and ensuring cost-effective, high-quality delivery.
- Enthusiasm for legal technology, matter management systems, data-driven service delivery, GenAI, and continuous improvement.
- Must be eligible to work in the UK.
Skills
- Strategic legal leadership
- Legal service delivery
- GenAI and AI for legal processes
- Line management
- Coaching
- Performance management
- Professional development
- Work allocation
- Quality assurance
- Problem-solving
- Business partnering
- Stakeholder management
- Legal technology
- Matter management systems
- Data-driven service delivery
Location
- Office-based with high flexibility (2 days per week in the office)
Work Type
- Fixed-term contract (8-12 months)
- Full-time (35 hours per week)
Experience Level
- Senior leader
- Significant post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor, barrister or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- £90,000 - £98,000 per annum
Benefits
- Substantial retirement plan
- Generous and flexible leave allowance
- Discounts on travel and technology
- Gym membership
- Flexible working culture
About the Company
- Cancer Research UK is the UK's leading cancer charity.
- The organisation is undergoing a period of transformation.
- The Legal team is leading the organisation with a bold use of gen AI and AI for legal processes.
- The company is committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.
- They actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, particularly those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
Equal Opportunity
- Operates an anonymised shortlisting process in commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures.
- Believe that a diverse workforce will help to beat cancer sooner.
- Requests candidates to inform them of any concerns or adjustments needed for the application or interview process.
- Unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18 due to health & safety and safeguarding risks.