Job Title:  Manager – Legal Business Services

Role Overview
As a Manager in KPMG’s Legal Business Services (LBS) team, you will lead client delivery across legal transformation projects, driving innovation in contract management, legal technology, and operating model design. You will play a pivotal role in helping clients embed legal into business processes, harnessing AI and automation, and redesigning their legal supply chains.

This is a client-facing leadership role, with responsibility for scoping, designing, and delivering engagements, as well as developing our propositions and helping to grow the LBS business.

What you will do

• Lead client engagements, from diagnostics to delivery, applying our methodologies.
• Design target legal operating models and implement transformation roadmaps
• Oversee legal technology implementation projects, ensuring effective integration into enterprise systems (e.g. CLM, AI, Matter and Spend Management)
• Drive managed services design and transition, enabling scalable delivery of contracting and legal processes.
• Facilitate client workshops to capture requirements and prioritise initiatives by value, risk, and feasibility.
• Contribute to business development through proposals, thought leadership, and pre-sales support.

Leadership & Management

• Manage multi-disciplinary engagement teams, ensuring high-quality delivery and adherence to KPMG standards.
• Mentor and coach junior team members, contributing to their development and the growth of the practice.
• Collaborate across KPMG service lines and global teams to deliver integrated, cross-functional solutions.

Skills & Experience

• Strong consulting or professional services experience, ideally with exposure to legal, contracting, or compliance.
• Proven experience in leading delivery of transformation projects (e.g. CLM, operating model, process redesign).
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies (Agile and traditional).
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior stakeholders and build lasting client relationships.
• Experience with legal technology platforms (e.g. Ironclad, CPAI, DocuSign CLM, iCertis, SirionLabs, Wolters Kluwer, Harvey) is desirable.

We are seeking a talented Management Consultant with experience in Front Office / Customer Facing Transformation experience to support our People Consulting Corporates clients by applying Business Strategy and transformation expertise, identifying opportunities, and delivering end to end Advisory engagements.

 

You will join an established and highly successful Front Office / Customer Facing Transformation practice, with the opportunity to leverage our leading practice methodologies and continue our growth. You will be working closely with FTSE 100 clients across a broad range of industries including Energy, Telecoms, Retail, Media and Professional Services.

The Technology in M&A team at KPMG is a growing and dynamic team. We deal with all aspects of the technology function, from strategy, cloud, digital, technology spend, etc. We work with both acquirers and vendors on pre- and post-deal technology issues.

• KPMG Law wishes to hire a Senior Manager  - with experience in the real estate sector and experienced in the development and integration of legal technology to enhance service delivery. 
• KPMG is planning to launch a global real estate portfolio management solution during 2026. The candidate will work closely with the KPMG Law UK Real Estate team to undertake the initial design and testing of the solution before launching across the broader network.
• The KPMG Law UK real estate team started in December 2013 and is now 9 strong including 3 Partners with further growth plans during 2025/2026 already acting on repeat investment, development and asset management mandates for private equity funds, sovereign wealth clients and listed property funds.
• KPMG already has established real estate capabilities across multiple countries and the candidate will be required to liaise with senior lawyers in those countries as the solution scope is broadened. The candidate will also assist with the project management of the roll-out and the implementation of specific client solutions.
• As this sector is known to lack diversity, KPMG is dedicated to considering diverse profiles for this role.
• The ideal candidates are likely to come from law firms but candidates from competitor firms or in-house will also be considered.

At KPMG we have re-imagined careers in Global Compliance & Transformation (GCT). Our clients leverage KPMG’s compliance and transformation expertise and technology to drive better visibility, greater efficiency and improved risk management across their organisation.  Ultimately we prepare groups for the future of digital compliance helping them develop a sustainable, technology- enabled and holistic future state operating model.

 

We are winning new clients and are rapidly growing our team as a result of these investments and successes. As part of an established KPMG network of expert teams and delivery centres, you will have a fantastic opportunity to experience the global nature of these services. Delivery is underpinned by our innovative KPMG Digital Gateway platform. This is an exciting time to be part of our GCT team at KPMG where reimagining tax is a strategic priority for our UK and Global business.  We have a diverse client base, from mid-market to FTSE listed groups, from public sector to real estate to financial services. The role involves working on clients of all sizes and across a wide range of sectors.