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About the Role

Pinsent Masons is seeking a Resource Manager for an initial 6-month fixed-term contract to support partners and senior fee earners within the RAS Group. This role involves identifying capacity and ensuring effective work allocation across national teams, acting as a trusted advisor on strategic workforce planning and resourcing.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor on strategic workforce planning and resourcing.
• Work closely with partners, senior fee earners, and operational leaders to understand current and future requirements.
• Use knowledge of lawyers' capabilities, experience, and development needs to support effective resourcing decisions.
• Balance utilization and ensure priority work receives appropriate support.
• Resolve competing resource demands.
• Identify potential capacity issues.
• Collaborate with flexible resource, paralegal, and legal project management teams.
• Support recruitment planning.
• Support lawyer development.
• Support the implementation of systems and processes for monitoring and reporting capacity and utilization.

Requirements

• Proven resource management or workforce planning within a complex professional services environment.
• Demonstrable experience of influencing and negotiating with senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial and operational business acumen, with the ability to make effective decisions using sound judgment.
• Experience of resolving resource conflicts and managing competing business demands.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and present it in a clear and accessible format.
• Experience of introducing change, implementing new ways of working, or improving resource management processes.
• Previous law firm experience or experience within an international professional services organization is advantageous.
• Knowledge of BigHand and Power BI is advantageous.

Skills

• Resource management
• Workforce planning
• Influencing
• Negotiating
• Commercial acumen
• Operational business acumen
• Decision making
• Judgement
• Conflict resolution
• Analytical skills
• Data interpretation
• Change management
• Process improvement
• BigHand
• Power BI

Location

• Any UK Office

Work Type

• 6-month contract
• Hybrid (three days in office, two days from home)
• Flexible working requests considered

Experience Level

• Senior

About the Company

• Pinsent Masons brings together the best people to get the job done.
• We are naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing.
• We value your ideas.
• We are an award-winning, hardworking, and commercially minded team.
• We offer the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships.
• We work in an open and supportive environment to deliver outstanding results.
• Our people are our success, and we work as one team.
• We are a top Stonewall employer.
• We are a Valuable 500 member.
• We are a signatory of the Race at Work Charter.
• We are a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law.
• We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking.
• We believe different perspectives help find solutions to complex challenges and deliver outstanding results.

Equal Opportunity

• As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
• We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking.
• We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.