We are looking for talented Contracting Consultants to join us in growing the Contract Management Transformation practice within LOTS, by helping our clients adapt and make the most of technological advances to help them better manage their contracts. Working closely with our team, you will not only be delivering transformation work for our clients, you will also be instrumental in helping us to grow our business.  

You will be responsible for leading, scoping, design, development and implementation activities across multiple client projects to deliver leading contract management solutions. You must be confident in leading client interactions, gathering, validating and testing requirements as well as overseeing the end to end contracting transformation of large global projects. You will work closely with client stakeholders, delivery leads, business analysts, developers and testers to guide the design through to implementation and beyond whilst ensuring KPMG risk and quality standards are adhered to

The Company Secretarial & Global Entity Management Team sits within KPMG Law. KPMG has a long history of successfully delivering multidisciplinary services to clients and our team plays an important part in that. Our vision is to be the company secretarial adviser of choice for KPMG’s clients in relation to compliance and governance matters.

We have ambitious growth plans for our team and KPMG Law as a whole is growing and expanding into other areas of law that fit within its vision and the needs of KPMG’s clients, making it an exciting time to join us.

Job Title: Legal Operations & Transformation Services - Assistant Manager

KPMG’s Legal Operations and Transformation Services (LOTS) team supports clients in optimising their legal function to achieve operational excellence.  

There are 2 core service offerings within LOTS: a powered contracting practice, based on Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) technology, and a legal operating model transformation service.  Across LOTS, we are winning new clients and are growing our team as a result of these successes and as a new role, it is an exciting time for a candidate to come in, make a big impact on the function and shape the role.

We are looking for talented Assistant Managers to join us in growing the legal operating model transformation practice within LOTS, through managing and developing external client relationships and building out our offerings. 

The candidate will gain experience across the lifecycle of a transformation project and in developing a new offering for KPMG, working closely with other KPMG LOTS teams globally as well as interaction with other services within KPMG such as CIOA and People in Change.  The wider LOTS team has a focus on legal technology and automation and the candidate will have the opportunity to work across all client bases, from mid-market to FTSE listed companies, from public sector to financial services to FMCG. 

—    Provide subject matter expertise and industry insights to our clients undergoing legal transformation
—    Support and contribute to the development of go-to-market strategies, collateral, methodologies and alliance partner relationships
—    Contribute to and lead workstreams within complex, multi-national engagements for our clients, comprising of multi-disciplinary teams —    Taking ownership of micro service offerings as they develop and taking an active role in determining their direction and focus
—    Acting as the conduit between some of our services internally (e.g. Procurement, Finance Transformation, CIO Advisory, Risk Consulting, Legal,     People and Change etc.) and able to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary solutions and teams

Leadership & Management:

The role will report to the Head of Legal Operating Model Transformation. The primary objective will be to support them to help shape and grow service offerings and supporting methodologies within the legal operating model transformation practice. 

As the team and business grows, the candidate will be expected to contribute to the development of people and culture within the team, ensuring continuous development and support for more junior members.

The candidate will also be expected to support with activities related to business development, marketing and communications and collateral development to feed in to the wider LOTS business, in the UK and globally.

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:

Candidates will be expected to have a strong track record at engaging with and managing stakeholders across different seniorities, functions and industries. 
Candidates will need to manage both internal and external stakeholders self-sufficiently as part of on-going engagements and through business and strategic development.

Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance:
This role will assist in the growth and development of the practice and service offerings in LOTS, and KPMG Law as a whole by extension.
The successful candidate will contribute to the growth and development of the practice and service offerings in LOTS. The candidate will be responsible for adhering to KPMG standards regarding risk and quality of their work and the work performed by their team within workstreams they oversee.

Experience
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